Posted by Shea on 11, 2000 at 10:06 AM:
In Reply to: USB stuff? posted by henri on 10, 2000 at 12:11 PM:
Done it. I bought two of the cheapest USB mice I could find (buy.com for $5.95) and turned one into a spinner and the other I wired into my CompUSA clear trackball. My goal was to have one USB cable going from my 4 port USB hub mounted inside my control panel to the pc. It works great. My next step is to find a cheap USB flight yoke.
: anyone tried hacking a usb mouse for their
: trackball/spinner interface?.
: my spinner seems ok (origional tempest hardware and
: a ps/2 mouse internals) but the trackball sucks (i
: bought one of those $10 playstation trackballs and
: hooked up a serial mouse) its most likely the size
: of the wheel/number of holes etc. its not smooth,
: and if i spin too fast in marble madness the ball
: goes the other direction :). This may sound like
: heresy, but my arkanoid game has way improved when
: i switched from the spinner to the trackball, anyone
: else do this?
: but i was wondering, after reading that the USB mice
: get a lot more signals/sec, if anyone had tried
: hacking one for a trackball or spinner
: or for that matter, if anyone had taken a USB keyboard
: apart yet. it would be kinda cool to have a single
: USB plug to stick in the pc from the cab.
: henri (who still has to put up a web page for his cab)