I started modding about a month ago when I succesfully changed my keyboard LEDs. (small start)

Me, minus the 1337 5|<!11z = mistakes and problems .

One of my on-going project is my mouse. This is a plain IBM mouse. I opened it, and almost destroyed the innocent little mouse.


I made the wheel out of 4 layers of acrylic. (I got them from my bro, they're really thin) So super-glue them together, and I got this:


(Yes, it's square and ugly )

Now comes the hard part. I drilled and rounded that thing with sandpaper with my own hands. Just gotta use my hands since I've got no proper tools. And the result:






Like I've mentioned, I almost destroyed the mouse. Realised the yellow wires which leads to the red LED in the opened mouse? I took the LED off the board and tried to solder a blue LED only to find out that there isn't enough power to light it up. And I failed to solder the red one back!
Actually, I intend to make something like the smaller mouse, a light up wheel (it's gonna be blue. Gonna change the existing red LED to blue too). And the blue led with light up my wheel to something like this :


Will have to wait for my blue LEDs to complete this mouse project.
So now my itchy hands are "destroying" my computer. Will have more updates soon

This post has been edited by pmmonkey: May 1 2008, 07:57 PM

this will be VERY interesting to see.

i like the effort u did with the wheel mouse. looks good with the light...

This post has been edited by mADmAN: Apr 10 2007, 06:26 PM

wow... nice...
r u really a gurl?
btw, wont the scroll mouse be Hard since it's acrylic?

Thank you

LOL ya... I'm a girl.
No change of "feel" in scrolling. It's just like normal.

never tot that mouse oso can be modded..

anyway nice job
hope that little innocent ibm mouse serve u well..

niceeeeeeeeee

how bout spraying the mouse with metallic color...look better...i sprayed mine matte black

wow hard to see a female modder around
kudos for the job done...even drilled the acrylic and sanded with your hands o.O

dont scare later your hands not smooth anymore?

This IS cool. Hmm, blue LEDs need a higher voltage than most other colours, maybe you can tap the wires from the mouse cable instead?
http://www.bbdsoft.com/keyboard.html

Connect the positive to Vcc and the negative to ground. Remember to use a resistor in between because 5v is too much for ANY LED. I don't think leaving the original LED connection blank would do anything.

Anything can be modded. It's a good mouse, will try hard to revive it even if it's dead.

I sprayed it, just didn't upload the pic. (Now uploaded in this post) Even had a matching keyboard

My hands are the worlds best multi-purpose tool.

Yup... realised that. So will directly connect from the power source with a resistor. Btw, my mouse is a USB.

More pics:

very good mooding u done even u done hav proper tools...
good job...really wait for d update

Very nice. USB is also 5v and even easier, red is 5v positive and black is GND.

wow...
good, i tot it will giv u a big difference in the scroll mouse.

It reminds me of Flintstones....

No hard feeling ya...

where's the other wheel?

This post has been edited by z3r0717: Apr 10 2007, 10:59 PM

Wow...dun realise this pro o2jammer can even mod!
If i'm not mistaken she joined the o2jam competition during launching of WoW @ lyp?
btw, the mouse and keyboard look really nice!!

LOL... no hard feelings. I even told my bro that I felt like returning to stone age doing this.

Haha... ya, Vista launch. But lost in the first round.

I need a little help here. Can anyone tell me how a CM 80mm silent blue led fan suppose to work/look like?
Cos I got 2 of them from wongshuyan from the garage sales and the leds are blinking. Could it be faulty?

This post has been edited by pmmonkey: Apr 10 2007, 11:34 PM

blinking? i think got problem. lol

Bad day then... he said it's in excellent condition. http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=435711&hl=
Just got it a while ago. He turned up late and now the fan's faulty.
The one week warranty just isn't worth it. Sending those fans back to him will cost me more than fixing them.

Lets turn my bad luck into some other fortune. Hmm... will try to see what I can do with that 2 faulty fan.

This post has been edited by pmmonkey: Apr 10 2007, 11:56 PM

I betcha AllnGap's ears are starting to tingle now