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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.
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.
enough is too much
Mouse Mod
http://www.codewolf.com - Just good stuff to waste time
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.
Impersonating Tycho from Penny Arcade since before there was a PA.
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