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Roughy:

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Roughy:
Today, pretty much all of my "stuff" for my control panel arrived (not including control panel).

What I was afraid would happen has happened.

I ordered a 3" translucent trackball:

http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/560110xx.htm

And that's what I got.

It's got some goofy cable-y thing connected to it, and I just kept thinking... "Hmm... there must be something, somewhere, that I have on-hand to connect this, right?"

I nosed through the KeyWizMax stuff I've got.

Nope.

I nosed through Happ's site and saw this:

http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/56011300k.htm

Wow.  And, of course... Ouch.

Do I really need to spend another $40 to get a USB-PS/2 Trackball Interface Kit for Trackballs? 

Or is there some other way to make this work?

BobA:
I think the minipac would have been the interface to use since it includes the TB connections.  SInce you have a keywiz you probably need the happs interface or a mouse hack to connect your tb. If I missed something sorry but just picked up on this thread.

Bob

Roughy:
Yeah, that's what I'm saying/asking:

I just got a trackball with some 2x3 pin connector rectangle thing that doesn't really connect to anything else I've got, so it appears to me that I need to shell out some more $ and get the adapter to make it ps2 or USB.

I'm just mildly annoyed by it and the additional week or so wait time before I'll be able to do anything with it now and was hoping there'd be a trackball hack.

BobA:
There is a trackball hack.  It is called using a USB or PS2 ball type mouse guts.

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