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Mouse hack,... need some advice.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: shorthair on May 23, 2007, 09:34:35 pm ---Brief segue on contacting Randy: I've never gotten a response through the GGG message page. Generally have through pm, here.
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I think we may be getting blocked somewhere. Some POS has been spamming with groovygamegear.com as the return address.
If anyone sends me a an email and doesn't hear back within 48 hrs, please try again or PM me on here.
Sorry for the thread de-rail....
You'll probably want to get a cheap multi-meter. It makes things a lot easier when trying to find your way around a circuit. I may be wrong, but the large solid area looks to be the ground plane.
RandyT
Pongo:
Yea, I've got a multimeter, but to be honest I don't know really how to use it for testing this. I have not really messed around with circuit boards before so this is all a bit new to me. I usually just use it to check the charge on batteries.
Anyways, so if you think the large area is ground plane, how can I confirm this, and what should I look for to connect the wire to.
Thanks
Kremmit:
I have done maybe 20-25 mouse hacks, and I always just get the ground from the buttons. It's never caused a problem, although I won't claim that it works on absolutely every mouse out there. Look for the common trace that runs to each of the mouse buttons. That'll be a little more tricky on your mouse because the buttons were on a separate little pcb, so you'll have to find the ground there, follow it to the connector, across the wiring, and to the pin on the main pcb. The good news is, you can just plug the connector in, and clip off all the un-used wires and leave the one that goes to ground, so no soldering for that one.
And don't sweat the Logitech thing too much- the reports of Logitech mice not working related to a different 4-pin opto that Logitech used to use. Newer Logitech mice use a standard 3-pin opto, just like yours. I haven't personally done one of those, but I believe it should work fine.
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