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Cryogenic Mouse Mod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can't-feel-my-legs dept.

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.

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  1. Cache by bleckywelcky · · Score: 2, Informative


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

    1. Re:Cache by SpatchMonkey · · Score: 2, Informative

      Here is a mirror of the site.

  2. Why Mod?? by oldzoot · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    enough is too much
    1. Re:Why Mod?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      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.

  3. Mirror Site Here (w/pics).... by codewolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mouse Mod

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    http://www.codewolf.com - Just good stuff to waste time
  4. Easy mouse mods by Tycho · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    Impersonating Tycho from Penny Arcade since before there was a PA.
  5. Mirror by SpatchMonkey · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  6. Re:LEDs by Safety+Cap · · Score: 5, Informative
    How did he know where to sauder [sic] it in?
    Check out the folling Mod sites:
    1. Led Mouse Mod
    2. The Mutation Center
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    Yeah, right.
  7. Han Solo Lego Figure by mshowman · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  8. Thank you all. by japala · · Score: 2, Informative

    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. :)