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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.
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.
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..
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.
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
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.
I.O.U One Sig.