Cryogenic Mouse Mod

mrsaggy writes "When you get sick of putting an aluminium case on your PC, and lighting up the keyboard, here is something you can do with your optical mouse. Does anyone know where I can get a Han Solo lego figure ?" Thats a pretty funny mod. Ya don't see many mouse mods, and that one is pretty cool.

Comments

w00t!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I can overclock my mouse to 800 dpi!

Computers are tools

[SpatchMonkey]

What is with all these 'modding' nonsense. Do you see builders modding their trowels to look like glass spaceships? Or plumbers modding their wrenchs to look like Xmas tree decorations?

No? Then why waste time with all this ridiculous timewasting with computer cases. I mean come on, it's just a glorified adding machine!

Re:Computers are tools

[dioxide]

my mom gardens and does some koi pond stuff as a hobby. her tools are shaped like turtles and other things of the sort. theres a difference between doing a job out of necessity and doing it for amusement and peace of mind, and if making the tool more appealing to yourself makes you happier, than why not?

Re:Computers are tools

[SirSlud]

Fetishising over ones tools is nothing new. Our Engineering Mascot at U of Waterloo was a 6 foot long Rigid wrench - one of only 5 in the world. We didn't do anything but worship it. It was a 'waste' of a wrench (at least with mods you can still use the tool), but it certainly isn't an isolated case.

Asides, why are cars stylish? Answer: because you have to look at them a lot, so asthetics are important. Why are computer mods stylish (and build by people who use their computers alot): because the user has to look at it a lot, for long periods of time, thus its stylish.

Everything is a tool. Should we design buildings to all look stylistically exactly the same? What are you, a borg? :)

Re:Computers are tools

[SpatchMonkey]

Yes, that's fine. Everything is fine.

I just felt like bitching about it, that's all.

Re:Computers are tools

[thefirelane]

Thank you Chairman Mao:

"it doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice"

I also think creativity and personal expression are highly overrated. My children will get just brown crayons too.

Care to loan me some money so I can start up a car company I've always dreamed of? The cars will all be the same, just enough to get you from point A to B, no variation, and above all else they all come in one color. They will be serviced every 6 months to make sure you haven't put on any bumper stickers. It can't fail!


---Lane

Re:Computers are tools

[jimson]

We're geeks! We like to make our things look cool/geeky.

Why waste time modding?? WHy waste time reading and posting to ./,.......unless you're a geek!

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

No, you're a tool. You can make art out of anything, including your so-called "tools".

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

Quit your bitching. You got user id #300000. I think you should count your blessings.

Re:Computers are tools

[setag]

I mean come on, it's just a glorified adding machine!

I've never seen an adding machine that can download and view pr0n!

Re:Computers are tools

[nemski]

Me, I would like my computer to be brown like a monkey. The monitor should look like a monkey's face, cute and stuff. Now that I think of it, what I really want is a monkey. I'll call him Slash. We'll go on long walks in the summer rain, laugh at each other's lame jokes, and when the lights go out . . . Yeah, what I really want is a monkey.

Re:Computers are tools

[NumberSyx]

What is with all these 'modding' nonsense. Do you see builders modding their trowels to look like glass spaceships? Or plumbers modding their wrenchs to look like Xmas tree decorations?

No I have not seen anything you mentioned, but I have been to car shows and seen some pretty cool car mods. If its alright for car owners, why not computer owners ?

Re:Computers are tools

[Kwikymart]

What, you've never heard of calculator porn?

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

Same goes for fashion. Why don't we all wear the same style and colour of clothing?? Lucky for us that some fashion-conscious people came up with the pink tie!

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

Ya but when you mod your car it means your gonna get cheap sex from skanky barflies...

The whole point of fancy cars is picking up chicks.

I mean a hyundai will get you from point A from point B...

Everything else after that is just to decide what class of female you will be fucking...

Re:Computers are tools

[Stoutlimb]

"I mean a hyundai will get you from point A from point B..."

I modded my Hyundai accent. It got me laid.

Bork!

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually personal expression is just a way to establish your social ranking and attract mates.

So people that are are trying to be "Creative Individuals" are actually just trying really hard to establish social rank and/or attract mates. Generally subjects resort to excesses of this behavior when their social skills are underdeveloped.

Re:Computers are tools

[Telecommando]

I believe you're mistaken
According to this the wrench is only 60 inches long. That's 5 feet.
And it's hardly rare, if you go here anyone can buy one for only $224.50.

I know these aren't that rare as my father was a plumber/pipefitter and had one of these for over 20 years.

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

Frickin' Puerto Ricans ...

*shakes head*

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

hello hello mr. monkey you are so fast and funky!

Re:Computers are tools

[muck1969]

.. but for a "personal computer" it doesn't seem so personal if a bazillion other people have the same thing.

Besides, it is in the Nerds Code of Conduct (tm) to strive to become the alpha-nerd aka Techno-Bill.

Re:Computers are tools

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I know what your mom's "tool" is shaped like. And you better believe she does it for fun. Yes indeedy. Yes indeed.

Re:Computers are tools

[foonie]

Thank you Chairman Mao:

"it doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice"

ah, the history major in me insists that I inform you that it was Deng Xiaoping -- not Chairman Mao -- who said that.

ken

Cache

[bleckywelcky]

/.ed already, geez. Here's the cache (although somewhat useless without the pics, heh).

Re:Cache

[SpatchMonkey]

Here is a mirror of the site.

Re:Cache

[grazzy]

who ever modded that link up probably used lynx for checking it.. :)

its grouse. dont go there if you recently had something for dinner.

Re:Cache

[JPriest]

What are you talking about? It looks a mirror of some mouse mod pics to me.

Re:Cache

[Anonymous Coward]

its grouse.

You are mistaken, sir. That is a pheasant.

Ya don't see many mouse mods ...

[great throwdini]

... especially on that site.

/. Effect and all ...

This has got to be illegal...

[jonman_d]

...obviously, you're violating the rights of the Lego Creature. Everyone knows, you're only allowed to detain people without charges and without a lawyer, indefinitely, if they're "enemy combatants." I don't see the little Lego dude exersizing free speech, so he hasn't done anything wrong! You can't do this!

Re:This has got to be illegal...

[Anonymous Coward]

"You have been convicted of the future crime of Minifig murder...."

Re:This has got to be illegal...

[EvilFrog]

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure that it's illegal to tear people's legs off too... that must have hurt...

instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Triumph The Insult C]

you could

• go outside
• take a shower
• switch to diet coke
• get the artifical cheese dust out of your facial hair
• get a real, living girlfriend. japanese anime (although cool) doesn't count

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[SirSlud]

instead of spending time insulting somebody, you could:

- go outside
- take a shower
- switch to diet coke
- get the artifical cheese dust out of your facial hair
- get a real, living girlfriend. japanese anime (although cool) doesn't count

*crash* goes the sound of your glass house losing its final and fourth wall as your rock careens across the lawn ..

Yes, I realize I'm being hyporitical, but at least Im being upfront about it. ;)

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Anonymous Coward]

you could

go outside
Check

take a shower
Check

switch to diet coke
Check

get the artifical cheese dust out of your facial hair
hang on ... Check

get a real, living girlfriend.
Check

japanese anime (although cool) doesn't count
Dammit!

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[GuyMannDude]

get a real, living girlfriend. japanese anime (although cool) doesn't count

Yeah but the problem is that I don't meet any gorgeous green-haired female ninjas with 38DDs who can kill monsters effortlessly in my line of work...

GMD

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Anonymous Coward]

switch to diet coke
Check

I personally believe sugar is healthier than aspartame (used in Nutrasweet and Diet Coke). People have been consuming sugar for a long time.. aspartame was only discovered in 1965 and has become popular in the last two decades.

Please at least look at Google's top results for aspartame.

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Anonymous Coward]

You should get into computers. I meet them all the time.

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[ocie]

Watch the Simpsons:

Woman: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on.
CBG: Don't try to change me baby.

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[IMarvinTPA]

* go outside,
I do this every time I go to my car, oh. (Actually, I plan on going swimming Sunday.)
*take a shower.
I do.
*switch to diet coke
I drink milk, I can't stand sodas.
*get the artificial cheese dust out of your facial hair
I hate facial hair. Shave regularly.
*get a real, living girlfriend.
I'm still working on the "how" part. Intentionally neglected this skill in highschool. Skipped college. Hate bars.

Then again, I'm not modding my mouse either.

Oh well.

IMarv

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Anonymous Coward]

I good place to meet girls is at Church. Bible study classes are a good place too.
And you'll meet nice girls, not skanks. Give it a try. It's beats being lonely.

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Anonymous Coward]

The guy's trying to get laid, not lectured.

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually the herb Stevia is a very effective sweetener, some say 100 times more than suger. And the best part is it has no negative health problems. I mean it's not actually healthy, but there's nothing wrong with it either. No calories, no nothing.

The problem is the companies that engineered these shitty half-assed and still not that healthy sweeteners have paid off the FDA to ban Stevia as a sweetener. You can only buy it as a "dietary supplement". So you can still use it in your coffee or something, but no one can use it to make healthy sweets.

And yes it is healthy at least 5 other countries have oked it, and now can give their people healthy sweets and their companies don't have to pony up cash to the artificial sweetener corps.

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Verizon Guy]

You seemed to have left out the phrase "Nice mouse mod... for me to poop on! "

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[Anonymous Coward]

MY wife is slightly diabetic, Neutrasweet makes her blood sugar stay artificially high and blurs her vision.
Splenda (sucralose, a sugar chloride) while being no cal also tastes better and dosnt screw with her blod sugar or vision.
Spelda while artificial seems safer then nutrasweet.
Splenda is slowly being used in a number of food products.
Right now All diet Rite soda as well as some other beverages like Verifines Fruit20 use it as a sweetener.
So untill natural non nutritive sweeteners are legal again, we have an alternative that is slowly gaining acceptance. Maybe in a few years Neutrasweet will be a thing of the past.

Re:instead of mod'ing your mouse ...

[IMarvinTPA]

Let's just say my patience for religious rhetoric is only surpassed by my patience for cold weather. That and it somehow feels morally wrong to go trolling for women in a church of a faith I do not have.

Why Mod??

[oldzoot]

Computer modding seems to me to be the current day version of hot-rodding cars back in the fourties and fifties. Sure, people still hotrod cars, but not to the extent that they did back then. It was a just maturing technology that had not reached it's performance peak - much like computers are now. What standards exist give a reasonable base for which to develop commodity enhancement products which can be used to customize the look and boost the performance of a computer , allowing the owner to express their individuality and technical prowess.

Re:Why Mod??

[lingqi]

...It was a just maturing technology that had not reached it's performance peak - much like computers are now...

give me *one* explanation how neon lights and acrylic windows and whatever make your computer perform better;

on the contrary -- do you know why computers uses metal cases? because in the times of solar flares, radiation will pass through you tiny tiny capacitors in your DRAM, usually leaving a stream of drained capacitors; -- metal cases help in that respect. (and i am not making this up)

so i would think that with a window on your PC, it would be *more* flimsy rather than less.

as for mouse mods... sigh... get a life yo.

Re:Why Mod??

[Anonymous Coward]

That's wonderfully wrong.

Cases are metal to prevent the computer from causing interference with other electronic devices. That's it. Any protection from solar radiation is minimal at best. More memory errors are caused by the natural radioactivity in the metal the components are made of than from solar radiation.

Re:Why Mod??

[packeteer]

neon lights dont but others do...

water cooling... huge fans... blowers... suckers... better power supplies... ram heat sinks... video card cooling mods... BIOS tweaks... NEW BIOS... higher quality round cables...

there are plenty of ways to mod your computer to go faster...

lights and windows are like the old mods donre to hot rods tomakethem look good... we have all the same things... shiny engines... paint jobs... decals... all that stuff...

Re:Why Mod??

[inburito]

Not exactly correct. The metal cases are there to diminish any interference your computer might cause to other electronic devices AND to reduce the interference other electronic devices might cause to your computer! They cannot totally shield your computer but definetly do a better job than not having anything.

Suppose, for instance, that you have an poorly shielded switching power supply. These are not terribly uncommon among cheap computer equipment. Generally it would be a brick that's between your electrical equipment and the outlet. Now take this brick next to a regular monitor (pretty poor shielding here too) and you begin to see nice interference effects! Now guess what happens if you have something similiar next to your unshielded computer.

You don't even need to consider anything related to memory but just the hard drive cables at udma speeds of 33 and over are highly suspectible to noise! It won't take very long until your computer is pretty much locked up and you got corrupted data on your hard drives. I've even had problems from using bad udma-cables (all the problems disappeared when I just got new cables) due to electrical noise probably generated by the fans or other hard drives or the powersupply.. who knows.

The fact is that solar radiation isn't going to do much to your computer (satellites are affected, however) unless you live in polar area and the flares leake from Van Allen belts, but that's a different story. Not shielding your computer is a bad thing because of not only the interference it creates but also the interference it receives..

Re:Why Mod??

[Anonymous Coward]

Give me one explanation how neon lights, mag wheels, and 99% of the other crap people use, make your car perform better? Speed costs MONEY, this is true for cars AND computers. How fast do you want to go?

Re:Why Mod??

[lingqi]

see -- still -- with all those cooling and "high quality cables" -- you are only increasing the margin of safety (which is fairly pointless, btw -- because chips are tested to -40 / 125 anyhow), but not make them work better;

re-boring an engine would be the equivalent of redoing the litho in a chip to optimize the interger pipe line. i will bow to the first person that "mods" his PC that way.

Re:Why Mod??

[br0ken by design]

Computer modding seems to me to be the current day version of hot-rodding cars back in the fourties and fifties.

No, it's more like the nerd equivalent of putting neon ground-effects, "Type R" stickers, and enormous wings...on a Honda Civic.

Yes. Case modders are the Rice Boys of the tech world. :wq

Re:Why Mod??

[balloonhead]

There seems to be a lot of "why?" questioning about this whole mod thing. Firstly, Why not? It's arguably a form of art - are you saying why should anyone do art?

Secondly, the issue of aesthetics is a big one - if you think it looks good, then do it. No-one else needs to agree, otherwise we'd all wear the same clothes and part our hair the same. A lot of human existence is about aesthetics, not even going into Darwinism.

Thirdly, individuality. Before skateboard-style (or any other fashion) became mainstream, it was done only by a few people expressing themselves in a new way.

If you still don't understand why people mod then I presume you wear your dad's clothes, don't look at them before or after you put them on, got the car which was the most practical for the cheapest colour, have no wallpaper in your house, have a two-colour graphics card, and your {girlfriend¦boyfriend} is ugly as sin but has a lovely personality.

Re:Why Mod??

[Anonymous Coward]

as for mouse mods... sigh... get a life yo.

Aight homeboy...Word.

Re:Why Mod??

[evalhalla]

so i would think that with a window on your PC, it would be *more* flimsy rather than less.

So, you've just demonstrated that it's not only cars, but also computers that work better without windows :)

Sorry, I couldn't resist the temptation

Re:Why Mod??

[Anonymous Coward]

It would depend on what kind of computer you start with. A modded Cyrix or Centaur system in a cheapo case would probably be a rice burner equivalent. If you start with a nice Athlon XP or P4 and a solid case then you have the wrong analogy.

There's more cars modded than Honda Civics and Integras.

Who to Freeze

[dprovine]

What this really needs is a Sigourney Weaver doll,
like from the start of "Aliens", with a little spider-crawley alien climbing in through the glass.

That effect....

[Tetsu no Chef]

(images had to be scaled down due to linkage from HardOCP)

Congrats! Now that Slashdot's linked to you, you won't even notice that HardOCP traffic!

Re:That effect....

[Anonymous Coward]

too bad [H]ard|OCP linked to this A LONG time ago, and they want us to pay for this shit. bah fuck that.

Re:That effect....

[Anonymous Coward]

I would have simply added HardOCP to my hosts.deny file. I mean, modding your mouse is one thing, but having a sexually-perverse fetish about the speed of your CPU clock is just stupid and sick. In my experience, the HardOCP crowd are just a bunch of pathetic dorks who prop up their dismal self-esteem with inflated technical specs, just as Eric Raymond pumps up his sad ego by firing guns at paper targets.

Re:That effect....

[Anonymous Coward]

just went to [H]ard|OCP and saw this posted

Its one of those...

[skydude_20]

sites I'll have to wait until tomarrow to check, thanks to the slashdot effect.

(wink wink.. mirrors)

mods

[axehat]

Aesthetics are very important. I have a Mac because I love OS X. OS X has Aqua, quite possibly the best GUI ever, IMHO. Its unix, but pleasing to the eye. Also, Apple hardware is also very pleasing to look at. Case mods on PCs are something that shows how much you love your computer, as well as how much time you spend looking at it. A beige box isn't nice to look at for ten hours, but a black box, with a window kit with a Tux etching on it with a blue neon inside is. I have never heard of a mouse mod, though. Seems interesting, if the website wasn't /.ed already.

Re:mods

[Anonymous Coward]

Case mods on PCs are something that shows how much you love your computer, as well as how much time you spend looking at it. A beige box isn't nice to look at for ten hours, but a black box, with a window kit with a Tux etching on it with a blue neon inside is.

Ummm if you're looking at your computers case for tens hours you're using it wrong...

Here's a hint: even though the cpu is in the case, you use the screen to interact with it...

Re:mods

[jawtheshark]

Strange...many people say it is slashdotted. I got everything just right now (0:40 CET, and not many comments).

Anyways...I think looks are important and that is indeed why I bought a Mac too. I have a cool case mod on one of my PC's (well a simple one, my concept...dad did it...he's better with his hands) but that one is out of nessecity: very big fan on the side of a overheated machine...looks cool too.

My first reaction was: why mod a mouse with a Lego figure? Well...I woudn't do it...but it looks very cool. 10 points for originality :-)

Re:mods

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but if you're one of those people who would choose aesthetic appeal over functionality/upgradability/price etc. etc., you need your head examined. I don't care if my PC doesn't look as spiffy as Mac, nor do I care if the interface for my operating system doesn't have all those bells and whistles sported by OSX. My computer is fast, easily upgradable, gets the job done, and above all it didn't cost me an arm and a leg.

Aesthetically appealing cases etc. are just for those who have a lifestyle obsession. It's almost as if they want everything in their rooms/offices to look like the stuff shown in movies such as Minority Report. It's stupid in my opinion. I mean, god damn, it's a COMPUTER. It's supposed to COMPUTE, not wow your friends because of its striking resemblence to a fake hollywood-style compuappliance.

Re:mods

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe you should look at the big square box with the occasionally moving pictures on instead ;)

Re:mods

[axehat]

That, or it is /.ed. I check up on /. around something like 25 times a day, when a new story comes up, I am usually there. Only seven people had replied comments to this story when I tried reading it. You can also notice how I said nothing about the actual mod itself, being as I hadnt't seen it, I only regarded mods in general. Now that I have seen it, it seems like a pretty cool mod. Someone posted something about a Han Solo Lego figure, that would be perfect. Props for originality. - But he was unmoved, and cried: "If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!" - H.P. Lovecraft "The Temple"

Talk about cruelty to Lego's...

[stirfry714]

I mean, first we cut off your legs, then we enclose you in a small airless chamber, "freeze" you, and then jerk you around for the rest of your pitiful existence...

Hmm, sounds like the plot for a B-grade movie. Wait, didn't it already get used in "Boxing Helena"? Sherilyn Fenn in a box, Serena in a box... hmm, what will the MPAA say?

Re:Talk about cruelty to Lego's...

[Phexro]

"Sherilyn Fenn in a box, Serena in a box... hmm, what will the MPAA say?"

PG-13. LEGO women don't have breasts.

Re:Talk about cruelty to Lego's...

[stirfry714]

PG-13. LEGO women don't have breasts.

Which of course, should be considered cruelty to LEGO men.

Re:Talk about cruelty to Lego's...

[spezz]

I heard the lego Kim Basinger lost her lego town because she didn't want to be in that mouse mod.

Google cache

[ljaguar]

at: Here

Mice modding...

[Wrexen]

Does anyone have advice on how to open these mice? I have a bunch of the MS Optical mice pictured in the page I'd like to mess with, but I'm not sure how to get the cover off in a non-destructive manner.

Re:Mice modding...

[phriedom]

I think you will find a screw or two underneath the sticker on the bottom of the mouse.

Re:Mice modding...

[Wrexen]

Nope, surprisingly enough there are no screws underneath that sticker. There's even a little dip where you'd expect to find one, but no screw to be found :(

Re:Mice modding...

[Anonymous Coward]

They are under the grey plastic pieces that the mouse rides around on (at least they're grey on my mouse...)

Re:Mice modding...

[zemaxuser]

If I'm not mistaken, the screws are under the plastic bearings that the mouse rides around on. These are just held on by a little bit of adhesive, and can be pulled off carefully and reapplied without too much trouble.

Re:Mice modding...

[Anonymous Coward]

i was taking mine apart last fall, got sick of trying, and just bashed the sucker...i think then i figured out where the screws were....ridiculously well hidden

Slashdotted - Google Cache

[citizenc]

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:i0o-8GH0AcQC:m etku.net/cryo/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8. Enjoy. =)

Slashdot Cache

[Photar]

OK ok. If they don't want to bother to provide a slashdot cache system. How about just linking straight to the google cache and save everyone some effort.

Re:Slashdot Cache

[5lash]

Surely this would just mean the Google Cache would get Slashdotted. Unless they have better servers than the sites original host?

Re:Slashdot Cache

[stirfry714]

Google getting Slashdotted? The day that happens is the day CmdrTaco can declare himself lord and ruler of the whole Internet.

What'd they say on another post here? 10,000 computers in their server farm?

Hmm... are there any sites out there that can take more traffic than Google? (Maybe something like Akamai?) I'm out of my league on that question..

Re:Slashdot Cache

[Photar]

I'm pretty sure google has a million billion servers with bandwith out the wazoo.

Re:Slashdot Cache

[chavo valdez]

We should test it out for them, to make sure. We can get everyone on slashdot together, then click on a link to Google at the same time.

Re:Slashdot Cache

[Peyna]

If Slashdot can handle its own load, I'm sure Google can handle a few extra thousand from Slashdot. It's just ittybitty servers that can't take it.

Re:Transmissions from the Host Geek!

[Anonymous Coward]

What the fuck?

Mirror Site Here (w/pics)....

[codewolf]

Mouse Mod

Re:Mirror Site Here (w/pics)....

[Anonymous Coward]

hmm, image paths on a Linux server ... tricky ...

Re:Mirror Site Here (w/pics)....

[glens]

It's "illegal" to use unescaped spaces in a URL.

Did you bother to load the page off the server, or are you using a "I'll silently fix it for you" Windows browser?

Easy mouse mods

[Tycho]

Mouse mods aren't that hard to do. You can get a multi-button ADB mouse if you make a solder bridger and switch out the IC, the cable, and the through hole resistors of a Logitech made Apple branded mouse, with those of a Logitech made PS/2 mouse. The mouse automatically works as a multi button mouse in OS X and Linux, but to get the other button to work in older versions of the MacOS you can use a shareware program or you can hack up the MouseKey control panel from Logitech so that it works with the mouse. The PS/2 mice that work for this are non-scroll wheel Logitech mice made from 1994 to 1998. You can tell if the Apple mouse will work for this if the first two letters of serial number starts with LT or LC and the third character is a number four to eight. Inside the PCBs of both mice should look very similar.

Re:Easy mouse mods

[Anonymous Coward]

Try to mod a trackpoint =)

Cannot find server.

[nmnilsson]

Again ! And you tell us to check our URLs...

Well, if you bothered to check your own, I might get to see that slashdot effect too !
(PS Is it something like those java water ripples ?)

Re:Cannot find server.

[NorthDude]

this is the slashdot effect you clown...

penis

[Anonymous Coward]

penis

Body Mouse

[Comrade Pikachu]

You want a mouse mod? I got yer mouse mod right HERE.

And HERE.

The Body Mouse creator's website.

Re:Body Mouse

[hazyshadeofwinter]

Jaysus, who designed that thing, David Cronenburg?

Mirror

[SpatchMonkey]

As the site seems to be slashdotted right now, here is a mirror.

Re:Mirror

[Anonymous Coward]

That's one of the hazards of overclocking. The mouse's innards can explode all over your groin.

What is the world coming to...

[swaic]

Everyone seems to think that every piece of hardware needs windows... :)

Re:What is the world coming to...

[sunhou]

Just wait, pretty soon we'll be reading articles about computers with (beowulf) clusters of mice. Although once you have more mice than you have appendages, there isn't much point to it.

Actually, that raises a serious question though -- has anyone ever used a computer with two mice, or even wanted to? Was it/would it be useful in any way? (I could see a computer with two mice in a public place, easily used by left-handed and right-handed people. Any use beyond that? Is there ever a time, other than while playing games, that two separate 2-D controls would help?)

Re:What is the world coming to...

[MasterOfDisaster]

Yep. 2 (or more) player hotseat games (turn based multiplayer on one box). That way, nobody need move when it is their turn. It also helps if you have multiple keyboards as well, but only for some games. I would also imagine that with USB it would be entirely possible to have player 1/2/3/x on seperate mice for live one machine play. Aside from games, I cannot however think of any uses for 2+ mouse systems

Re:What is the world coming to...

[zdzichu]

i'm using to mouse now: one for X and one for console. mouse wheel don't play nicely for me with GPM in repeater mode.

LEDs

[El_Rancho]

How the heck did he put that blue LED in there? I'd like to do something similar, but How did he know where to sauder it in?

Re:LEDs

[Safety Cap]

How did he know where to sauder [sic] it in?

Check out the folling Mod sites:

1. Led Mouse Mod
2. The Mutation Center

Re:LEDs

[Anonymous Coward]

You spelled "dumb ass" wrong.

Re:LEDs

[Anonymous Coward]

'sauder' is not a word. Do you mean 'solder', maybe? :-)

Still working

[gabvalois]

If you try to visit the site and keep the browser window open for like 2 minutes, the site will eventually come.

nice stuff there :)

WARNING: GOATSE.CX LINK IN PARENT.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't follow that link.......unless of course you want to see a picture of a stretched anus.

Mouse mods.

[SN74S181]

Ya don't see many mouse mods,

On a few occasions I've cut my track ball or mouse open and used trace cuts and jumper wires to make it into a 'natural' left handed mouse. There are control panel settings in most windowing software to do this for you, but not that often on games, particularly older classics like Heretic (which I still occasionally enjoy playing). There's also some satisfaction in telling right handers who use the machine that they need to go into the control panel and switch the mouse to use it right handed.

Re:fp

[Anonymous Coward]

All you've got is boynoodle biatch.

Han Solo Lego Figure

[mshowman]

http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?id=%7B9E27F7B5%2D 67FB%2D4DC3%2D81C9%2D0F33C98BF11F%7D&OrderBy=0&Cat ID=%7BA319A2F3%2D2540%2D4F7E%2DA702%2D4FF709118FB7 %7D

Re:Han Solo Lego Figure

[mshowman]

I guess Lego has some sort of anti direct-linking thing... Go here first... Lego Site Then go here Han Solo

Re:Han Solo Lego Figure

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not that hard to make a real link, you know. All you have to do is this:

<a href="[Insert URL here]">[Insert text here]</a>

Got that? Good. Now write it down so I don't have to tell you again.

Re:Han Solo Lego Figure

[Anonymous Coward]

What's easier is to set the threshold to filter out retards such as yourself who feel they have to belittle what everyone else does to compensate for your lack of a peni*. How about

[Insert it up your a**]

Got THAT?

Re:Han Solo Lego Figure

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, I think that was supposed to be

<a href=[Take anonymous coward's Real
Link]>Shove it up his ass]</a>

Han Solo makes the mod complete

[gripdamage]

Does anyone know where I can get a Han Solo Lego figure?

Get your Lego Han Solo here!

And another...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.osuweb.net/~ahaning/mouse/

A more useful mouse mod

[shird]

For a slightly more useful mouse mod, check out this MouseFan mod, which will cool your hand as you surf. Seems like something that could even go commercial.

Its too bad I have a cordless mouse and this would drain the battery, otherwise I'd probably do it myself.

Re:A more useful mouse mod

[4thAce]

It looks like a cross between a mouse and a hovercraft.

Certain individuals might, however, benefit from cooling applied during surfing the Net.

Forget Captain Solo

[Spencerian]

I'd rather have something more esoteric.

Like grafting Walt Disney's face on a Lego and "freezing" it. Or maybe just a Mickey-on-Ice.

(Yeah..it's urban legend, but it's still amusing.)

My turntable mouse mod

[t0qer]

http://home.pacbell.net/toqer/P1010007.JPG

Sorry about the small pic :)

I used terminatorX
http://www.terminatorx.cx
and mounted my optical mouse to a cheap 10 dollar turntable I got at the flea market. Instead of connecting it to the gearing like the terminatorx site shows, I rely on the actual vinyl underneath which makes it much more like spinning vinyl.

I have a few issues with it, maybe some /.'ers would want to take a stab at.

1. I would really like to raise the mouse to be about an inch above the vinyl. How would I change the camera's focus?

2. It seems "laggy" (sorry best word I could think of) Would it really be worth it for me to go out and spend another $40 dollars to see if the 2.0 versions are less laggy?

Anyways, I hope you found my comment to be both insightful, interesting, and informative, please mod accordingly :)

--Toq

Re:My turntable mouse mod

[hazyshadeofwinter]

TerminatorX is (pick three of the following):
1. Up to (at least) version 3.60 now.
2. Not particularly "laggy" on my box (caveats: IANADJ, YMMV, and I haven't given it that hard of a workout. Oh yeah, and my box is a 300mhz/32meg AMD)
3. Free as in GPL, so no $40 investment required.

skate boards

[Anonymous Coward]

--I hand built my first skate board in the early 60's. Yep, used scrounged skates for the trucks. Used pop's bandsaw to cut out a cool pattern out of 3/4 ply, complete with nifty bat wingtip scalloping for the deck. custom bat-paint. Drilled two big holes in the back to hold smoke bombs. Me and my friend across the street took turns using our schwinn one speeds towing each other with a rope around the 'hood with smoke billowing out the back.

Does this count, or will I have to be content with my magnetic anomaly detector complete with blinkenlights I made the same summer?

Now I'm a neogeezer phart. I put two radios on my riding lawnmower and dual batteries, that's it for modding lately, although I recently picked up a junker similar model, and am contemplating using the transaxle to make the original mower 4WD.

Actually from the Web site...

[twoslice]

"Poor Serena, all alone in that chamber. Now comes the evil modder and adds some liquid nitrogen (not really but bare with me here)."

I may bare with Serena but certainly not you dude!

This is too funny! you just can't make this shit up, you just can't...

gotta love the LEGO

[zod1025]

That is seriously neat! I'd shamelessly rip it off, if I owned a plain and boring m$ mouse. My Logitech cordless optical mouse is pretty sweet looking, all by itself however. I HAVE pondered adding blue LEDs...

Does anyone know if you can swap out the red one for a blue one, or if that will screw up the works? Just curious...

Re:gotta love the LEGO

[zod1025]

Crap... ok, just tried it.

The Logitech Cordless Optical takes two AAs (3 volts)... I must have used a 5 volt blue LED (I had a couple a blue's on hand, see, but I'm not sure of their specs) and it is COMPLETELY weak. Put it all together, barely lights, won't move a pixel.

So, I'm popping back int he red until I can figure out a Better Way (perhaps a real 3 Volt Blue, or maybe just hack in more POWER!)

FYI.

Re:gotta love the LEGO

[zod1025]

ACK! Nevermind, I found a WHITE LED in my parts bin, and it TOTALLY works! Nice and bright. And, since it's white, it matches up nicely with the translucent blue in the mouse shell! Looks perfect, and works wonderfully!

Hooray for PC mods at 1 AM!

Now time for bed.

Mascot?

[mangu]

Well, I read in /. or a link from here a few days ago that the CalTech engineering mascot is a beaver. Do you think a six foot wrench is nicer to have than a warm, furry, beaver?

Re:Mascot?

[SirSlud]

Forget that, think of the magic that comes from mixing a rigid tool with a beaver! Collaberation, baby!

Poor Serena

[The Wooden Badger]

Nevermind no breasts, her hands are on backwards.

Seems I should have added :-) to that joke...

[nmnilsson]

Maybe I shouldn't quit my job for a standup comedy career after all...
I'll buy that big red nose though.

I'm making three

[gad_zuki!]

Namely Hunter, Kimball, and Kaminsky. Or you know, I can get some kind of life.

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Thank you all.

[japala]

Nice to see so many visitors in my site. Too bad that the line is so slow. Hope you still have the patience to wait the page load. Thanks. :)

Aluminium inside his mouse?

[comcn]

I hope he didn't short anything out with that alumunium next to the PCB in the mouse. A modded mouse isn't a lot of good when the electronics stop working...

Re:Aluminium inside his mouse?

[japala]

Nope, everything went ok. I glued a piece of paper to that foil to prevent these situations. That foil is also far away from that pcb so it's quite safe.

Need new rating

[Strick-9]

+1 Thank You

(Although by now the slashdot effect has long gone.)

Don't Do This!

[Myriad]

...AND to reduce the interference other electronic devices might cause to your computer!...You don't even need to consider anything related to memory but just the hard drive cables at udma speeds of 33 and over are highly suspectible to noise!

Which is precisely why placing a Tektronix 608 Vector Scope (basically a CRT in a box) - that is hooked up to your soundcard to produce weird swirly effects - directly on top of your computer is a Very Bad Plan.

Trust me, I know from what I speak:

"Hey, that looks pretty cool."
(mere moments later)
"HEY! WHERE ARE ALL THESE BAD SECTORS COMING FROM?!!

Fun while it lasted...

heh

[lingqi]

i saw that when i was proof-reading the preview text but decided to leave it alone so some poor unsuspecting individual will cleverly take advantage of the opening so i can say "ha! knew you were gonna do that" like i am doing now. ;-)

Stoners

[inKubus]

I'm surprised he didn't try to make a bong out of it. . ;)

not bad, but check this mouse mod out...

[1001 0000]

here

Uses for two mice

[mitheral]

We use two mice for some stereo mapping/GIS applications like DVP The second mouse controls your Z axis (height above ground)