Re: Does anyone know how to hack one of these pcbs? [pic]

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: Do you think the optical wheel on the spinner would work with the led and phototransistor of a mouse since they might not be the exact same spoke size? Should I try and modify the wheel of the mouse to fit it onto the spinner so it's original? : Yeah, I was thinkin if i couldn't get anything else to work, I'd just go and buy a chip board from Radioshack, cut it to fit in the pcb slot, and wire up the mouse like you said, I wonder how well it'd work with this optical wheel though, who knows. : : It looks like you could just desolder the optointerrupters and resistors from that pcb and take the led and phototransistor from one of the axies on a mouse and solder then in place of one of the optointerrupters, and then run some wires from where you took the pars off of the mouse to the parts on that PCB. : : : : : Alright, I don't have a digital camera so I scanned in the trace side, but I colored in the stuff that was on the other side of the pcb in photoshop, so it's easier for those who have no clue what's on the otherside. : : : http://www.geocities.com/oni_otaku/spinnerpcb.jpg : : : Any help of how to hack this to a mouse's x-axis or y-axis would be greatly appreciated, I'm probably gonna buy a combo mouse. Btw, I have 2 of these spinners, and I was also wondering if I do hack one to the X-axis, and one to the Y-axis, if I could play like Bad Lands with both spinners, so first and second player, but using one mouse. I want to do this since I already have a trackball on the usb, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to use another usb gravis controller for a few other things, but I was just wondering if anyone had any helpful ideas, comments, or thoughts bout this. : : : Thanks in advance, : : : - CthulhuLuke

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