A while back, I saw a post on slashdot I thought was quite funny: it was called the Akira Drinking Game. First you choose your favorite character, then everytime you hear his name, you drink:-)
I also found this game doesn't work very well with The dead ringers:-)
The author mentions doing something like you did (reading the raw code directly from the serial port) and then was forced to switch to USB mice because the serial ones are pretty much impossible to find now.
No bindings for python, but those shouldn't be too difficult to write... swig maybe?
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I also found this game doesn't work very well with The dead ringers :-)
The author mentions doing something like you did (reading the raw code directly from the serial port) and then was forced to switch to USB mice because the serial ones are pretty much impossible to find now.
No bindings for python, but those shouldn't be too difficult to write... swig maybe?