Posted by SirPoonga on 29, 2001 at 2:27 PM:
Ok. I need a crash course in electronics:)
Here was my problem. I bought the Oscar spinner because I felt lazy and didn;t want to figure out my own mouse hack. But now I need to get my Wico trackball I need to work.
Here's what I have. One of the optical boards on the wico looks like it has two IR transmitters and recievers next to each other, each having 2 pins making 4 pins total for the receivers and 4 pins total for the transmitters.
My kensington mouse (read POS mouse) is different. I'm just going to describe the x axis for now. It has one IR transmitter and receiver where each piece has 4 pins. The oscar hack had three pins. That's where I'm getting confused.
I just need to know if and how I can wire the trackball either to the kensington mouse or the oscar logitech mouse.
I got a digital camera for christmas and will take pics if needed for more explanation:)
P.S. I have the side panel and some cross-sections of my arcade build. Stole a few parts form my free rotting double dragon cabinet I found.