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Trackball Mod part 1
Trackball Mod part 1, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Obscenely large trackball, $5. Obtain used USB ball mouse from fools at Goodwill, $3. Spending hours making something you don’t...
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Trackball Mod part 2
Trackball Mod part 2, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Mouse rotary encoder disks have been liberated from their plastic spindles. They each were then mounted on a 10-32 bolt with a...
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Trackball Mod part 3
Trackball Mod part 3, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Before we go any further, we need to tighten our tolerances. New shorter bolts, with hex caps, for encoder disks. The spacers were...
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Trackball Mod part 4
Trackball Mod part 4, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Served up here are most of the electronics to go into the trackball. Forget everything you’ve learned about working with...
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Trackball Mod part 5
Trackball Mod part 5, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Utter failure! Sigh. The switches work but both X and Y axes don’t. I think the problem is with the wiring at the main board, it’s...
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Trackball Mod part 6
Trackball Mod part 6, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. After my colossal failure, most men would have been deterred, however my response was to go and buy four more mice. I’m extremely...
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Trackball Mod part 7
Trackball Mod part 7, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. EUREKA! I got the god damn thing to work! This is another mouse, identical to the first one. The mouse is a marvel of...
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Trackball Mod part 8
Trackball Mod part 8, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. All the electronics are now finished. I was going to make the entire ball cage a button by hinging the top back and affixing the...
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Trackball part 9
Trackball part 9, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Finally finished. The thing that slowed me down was whether I should add a wheel, roller, or knob to scroll web pages. I decided...
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Desk part 3
Desk part 3, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. My excitement about this project has turned to frustration. I fear that this desk has too much character, not unlike its creator. A crack in...
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