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

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: Ok, cool. I'll see if I can get a cheap mouse from best buy or somewhere like that, maybe circuit city has one cheap cause they are notorious for their cheap products. Alright, thanks for the help. : -CthulhuLuke : : The weel on the spinner should work fine, even though the spokes are probably further apart then the orignal one on the mouse, in fact if you replaces the orignal weel with one from a mouse it might not work because the spinner may spin to fast for the mouse to track with the small spacing : : : : : 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. : : :

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