![]() ![]() Or worse… a replacement to a classic game controller. It’s a great UI in its own right, but waay too many people think it’s like a mouse. Touch screen really shine without a keyboard interface bogging it down. Nothing that beats the accuracy and conciseness of a keyboard. Trying to convince the keyboard to have an affair doesn’t make sense. As long as there are keyboards, there will be mice (or whatever bastard children they have). But the fact is, The mouse and keyboard are in a very long term relationship. You can have UI that should be mouse only and you should have UI that can be keyboard only. Android and Apple (iOS) is much better, but a lot of the developers are as brain dead as MS so they’re no help. Good way to screw over the desktop guys who’re developing the software for your OS knuckle heads. Microsoft really got this whole business in the most brain dead way possible with their release of Win8. But people really need to stop treating all these UI’s as one grand cluster and start thinking of them as unique interfaces with their own unique needs that are capable of solving some interesting problems. They’re not the same though they can, and sometimes do, solve the same problems. There is this huge group think that tries their damndest to make touch screen/stylus interfaces the same as mouse/trackball. Mouse/trackball are different paradigms for UI than touch screen, stylus and voice. Posted in Misc Hacks, Peripherals Hacks Tagged mouse, optical mouse, pen, usb mouse Post navigation We’ve even seen hacks for a head mouse if that’s your thing. We’ve seen plenty of mouse projects in the past, of course. ![]() The net effect is like a tablet but doesn’t’ require much space on your desk. includes instructions for installing the mouse correctly in Linux. The rest of the build is a construction project. took the mouse apart and cut the PCB to fit inside the base. The project is mostly mechanical rather than electrical. There’s also a normal-sized pen to act as the handpiece. The main parts of the pen mouse include a cheap mouse with a failing scroll wheel, a bingo pen, and the base from an old web camera. You can buy them already made (and they are surprisingly inexpensive), but what fun is that? wanted one and decided to build it instead of buying it. These do rely on a pre-computer analog: a pen or pencil. One interesting variation is the pen mouse. There are plenty of alternatives, of course, like touchpads and trackballs, but they never seem to catch on to the extent that the plain old mouse has. Sure we’ve all gotten used to them, but unlike a computer keyboard, there is no pre-computer analog to a mouse. No offense to but the computer mouse has always seemed a bit of a hack to us (and not in the good sense of the word). ![]()
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