Collaborate Disseminate
For some gamers, having a light fast polling mouse is key. [Ali] of [Optimum Tech] loved his 23-gram mouse but disliked the cord. Not seeing any options for a comparable …read more Continue reading A New Gaming Shell For a Mouse
We all have those gnarly hacks that we still think about years after we first saw them. For serial tipster [Inne], one of those is [Patrick Baudisch]’s soap mouse, which …read more Continue reading Soap Mouse Is a Slippery Interface for Mid-Air Input
In 1980, Logitech started selling a round, three-button input device known the Depraz mouse or Swiss mouse, which was made by — you guessed it — a Swiss company called …read more Continue reading Depraz Mouse Clone Has a USB Tail
We are saddened to report that William English, co-inventor of the computer mouse, died July 26 in San Rafael, California. He was 91 years old.
Every piece of technology starts with a vision, a vague notion of how a thing could or should be. The computer mouse is no different. …read more
Continue reading William English, Computer Mouse Co-Creator, Has Passed
Your life will be so much easier if you force yourself to learn keyboard shortcuts. Continue reading I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse for a Week and It Was Amazing
It doesn’t have the best UI, but it is a pretty creative take on a laptop. Continue reading This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a Computer
What do you do when you’re into trackball mice, but nothing out there is affordable or meets all your murine needs? You build one, of course. And if you’re like [Dangerously Explosive], who has a bunch of old optical mice squeaking around the shop, you can mix and match them to build the perfect one.
The mouse, which looks frozen mid-transformation into a rodential assassin, is a customized work of utilitarian art. Despite the excellent results, this project was not without its traps. [Dangerously] got really far into the build before discovering the USB interface chip was dead. Then he …read more
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The Internet just lost one of its most prominent innovators.
Robert W Taylor, a computer scientist who was instrumental in creating the Internet as well as the modern personal computer, has died at the age of 85.
Mr. Taylor, who is best known as the mastermind of ARPAnet (precursor of the Internet), had Parkinson’s disease and died on Thursday at his home in Woodside
Continue reading Robert W. Taylor, Who Helped Create the Internet, Dies at 85
[Neumi] wrote in with a sweet robotics hack. It’s a 2D laser distance sensor (YouTube) made with a cheap line laser and an optical mouse’s flow-sensor chip used as a low-resolution camera. In one sense, it’s a standard laser-distance-sensor project. But it is clever for a whole bunch of reasons.
For one, using a mouse sensor as a low-res camera is awesome. It’s designed to read from a standard red LED, so the sensitivity is in just the right ballpark for use with a line laser. It returns a 30×30 pixel greyscale image, which is just about the right amount …read more
Continue reading Mouse Brains Plus Line Laser Equals Rangefinder