The Brick
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I would have put this in the hardware forum but it won't let me hotlink 
I've always been struggling with uncomfortable mice. And I had always dreamed of a perfect, small, lightweight mouse. Using 'professional gaming mice' has always been an annoyance to me, since I still felt like I was moving a mouse with my hand instead of just looking around in the game. As a serious competitive gamer, this has always been troubling me. A proper, small mouse with proper gaming performance didn't seem to exist. So, about a week ago, I finally snapped and got busy building my own mouse to my likings. I found an old microsoft ball mouse that I found quite comfortable. So, the idea was to build the hardware of a good performing (optical) mouse on the market into this small thing. Luckily, I found that my Razer Deathadder had very small internal hardware, which was another reason for me to think I could pull this off.
Took me 30 hours of work, but it's done.
The main buttons and scrollwheel are from my Razer Copperhead. This is the 4th and final solution for the buttons I've tried, cause it's the only one that works properly. It looks pretty terrible compared to the professional work of razer and logitech, but it works wonderfully, including the side buttons.
Here you can see pics of progress and a bunch of random crap.
http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/tharbrick/
I'm VERY happy how it turned out. I wasn't sure I was gonna make it all the way, with everything working, till I was done today. And I'm very happy with the results, I find it an awesome mouse! With it I've already pulled of some awesome shots in Css that I could never have done with my previous mice. It's very, very lightweight (55 gram) compared to regular mice (the mx518 is 95 gram, which is the only one that's still intact after this project, lol).
I might give it a good looking finish someday, but for now it works, and that's all I care about for now.
I've always been struggling with uncomfortable mice. And I had always dreamed of a perfect, small, lightweight mouse. Using 'professional gaming mice' has always been an annoyance to me, since I still felt like I was moving a mouse with my hand instead of just looking around in the game. As a serious competitive gamer, this has always been troubling me. A proper, small mouse with proper gaming performance didn't seem to exist. So, about a week ago, I finally snapped and got busy building my own mouse to my likings. I found an old microsoft ball mouse that I found quite comfortable. So, the idea was to build the hardware of a good performing (optical) mouse on the market into this small thing. Luckily, I found that my Razer Deathadder had very small internal hardware, which was another reason for me to think I could pull this off.
Took me 30 hours of work, but it's done.
The main buttons and scrollwheel are from my Razer Copperhead. This is the 4th and final solution for the buttons I've tried, cause it's the only one that works properly. It looks pretty terrible compared to the professional work of razer and logitech, but it works wonderfully, including the side buttons.
Here you can see pics of progress and a bunch of random crap.
http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/tharbrick/
I'm VERY happy how it turned out. I wasn't sure I was gonna make it all the way, with everything working, till I was done today. And I'm very happy with the results, I find it an awesome mouse! With it I've already pulled of some awesome shots in Css that I could never have done with my previous mice. It's very, very lightweight (55 gram) compared to regular mice (the mx518 is 95 gram, which is the only one that's still intact after this project, lol).
I might give it a good looking finish someday, but for now it works, and that's all I care about for now.
