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Decent MAME Spinner?
patrickl:
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--- Quote from: patrickl on December 10, 2006, 05:51:31 am ---Aren't logitechs "claimed unusable" only for hacking it to connect a trackball or spinner to it? In this case the mouse will become the spinner so wouldn't every (ball) mouse work?
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Any ball mouse will work.... but it's a question of how well they work. Some work much better than others at reading the disk. It depends how good the optic board in the mouse is. You have to try a few different ones until you find a really good one.
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I was responding more to the "unusable" that Chris mentioned. I remembered the same, but I think only in connection to using them as optic boards for trackballs (i.e a mouse hack). But anyway, nevermind I guess.
More on topic, I was wondering if one could use a overhead projector film with a wheel laser-printed on it and stick that to a acrylic wheel or something? Would be easier than perfectly cutting out the teeth yourself and you could get a pretty high teeth count with a laser print too.
Kremmit:
I'm pretty sure I've seen projects with encoder wheels just printed out onto transparency film.
Logitech mice are fine to hack with this method; where you're using the existing mouse optics. Logitech mice are unsuitable for the other mouse hack type; where you're de-soldering the mouse optics and wiring external optic boards to the mouse, as in the case of hacking a mouse to interface a trackball.
spystyle:
OK, I made the encoder wheel as planned.
I printed the template out onto sticker paper, stuck it to a mini CD, glued the #10 USS washer in the middle (applying glue to the outer edge of the washer only, none in the washer's center hole), I let the glue cure for 12 hours, then cut the CD with the dremmel, then sanded and spray painted it with flat black paint.
The washer stayed in place even when I was cutting, sanding, and flexing the cd - it is permanantly affixed.
This is an encoder wheel anyone can easily make :)
Cheers,
Craig
spystyle:
and to recap, here is the spinner plan
patrickl:
maybe I missed it somewhere, but why not just use the encoder wheel from the mouse itself?
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