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Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: In Stereo! on Sat, 06 February 2010, 13:09:44

How about and embeded trackpoint. Oh wait, they already did that.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: kishy on Sat, 06 February 2010, 13:14:13

Hmmm...Mighty Mouse...MightyMouse...

Has this particular trademark ripoff been examined here yet?

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: didjamatic on Sat, 06 February 2010, 13:27:10

Cool hack!

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 06 February 2010, 13:41:48

Quote from: kishy;156773

Hmmm...Mighty Mouse...MightyMouse...

Has this particular trademark ripoff been examined here yet?

Unicomp's Mighty Mouse (http://web.archive.org/web/20010201060700/http://pckeyboard.com/) came long before Apple's.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: kishy on Sat, 06 February 2010, 13:44:30

Quote from: microsoft windows;156782

Unicomp's Mighty Mouse (http://web.archive.org/web/20010201060700/http://pckeyboard.com/) came long before Apple's.

Oh I'm well aware.

Unicomp could have made some revenue off that suit lol.

My on-topic remark would be this looks very interesting. I don't like the trackballs in the Apple mice but it's definitely a neat mod and the size is right.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 06 February 2010, 13:45:46

I don't like any of Apple's mice. If I wanted a trackball in my laptop, I'd just get an old one.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: ricercar on Sun, 07 February 2010, 17:57:39

Quote from: microsoft windows;156787

If I wanted a trackball in my laptop, I'd just get an old one.

But that's true for anything. If Microsoft Windows wanted [fill_in_the_blank] He'd just get an old one.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: Hak Foo on Sun, 07 February 2010, 18:34:13

Quote from: ricercar;156971

But that's true for anything. If Microsoft Windows wanted [fill_in_the_blank] He'd just get an old one.

My dream trackball is like the old Toshiba 486s-- you could snap it on the side and angle it.

Redo with four buttons and a wheel, and I want it

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: hyperlinked on Sun, 07 February 2010, 19:20:03

Quote from: ripster;156761

...I have a tiny mouse with a tiny trackball that I sometimes use for scrolling on my Tablet.  Scrolling sucks on a tablet (on most laptops now that I think about it).  Hopefully the iPad will fix that.

You said a dirty word.

How smooth is the motion in regular use with the ball?

I installed the multi-touch gestures upgrade on my EEE which makes the scrolling more convenient. I can do two finger swipes to pan the window like you're doing with the trackball, but the scroll motion keeps freezing or the wrong element starts to move. It might just be that the Synaptics touchpads (hope Kishy's not reading) on the netbooks are crap.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: hyperlinked on Sun, 07 February 2010, 19:21:01

My bad... I thought that was your netbook, Ripster.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: In Stereo! on Mon, 08 February 2010, 04:51:12

Quote from: Hak Foo;156974

My dream trackball is like the old Toshiba 486s-- you could snap it on the side and angle it.

Redo with four buttons and a wheel, and I want it

Whoa. I actually have one working example of these laptops and always wandered if I could somehow interface that trackball with PS/2.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: Input Nirvana on Tue, 09 February 2010, 00:37:32

Thanks for posting the hack. I briefly thought of using my Apple mouse scroll ball as a wheel on the Kinesis Contoured project, but thought it wouldn't turn out nice. The video shows a pretty nice functionality. I'm going to revisit the idea and look for the horizontal scrolling drivers as well.

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: YpoCaramel on Tue, 09 February 2010, 09:23:26

Tablet scrolling a problem eh? How is it in Win7, after all the tablet related tweaks there?

(I'm looking at at tm2 to replace my eeePC 1000H)

Title: Hack A MightyMouse Trackball into A Laptop
Post by: ricercar on Tue, 09 February 2010, 19:02:27

That HP software looks fantastic.