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Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 08 February 2010, 12:42:33

Strong work.  I definitely like the new mod better than the Sanwa mod.  It's a lot cleaner and more professional looking.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 08 February 2010, 12:53:31

I bet they would be nice in an arcade cabinet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
*Ducks for cover*

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: ricercar on Mon, 08 February 2010, 14:39:32

Super work, rip. Admiration and kudos.

I have a handful of those arcade buttons in Yellow. Whenever I see your beautiful black & red setup, I'm thinking they'd go well with that Black & Yellow bumblebee keyboard in the japanese threads.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: bigpook on Mon, 08 February 2010, 14:43:56

Very nice Ripster. That is pretty amazing work.  Must resist urge to get another CST...elbow, oh yeah, elbow.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: rdjack21 on Mon, 08 February 2010, 14:44:24

I'm defiantly going to have to pick myself up a LaserTrac now. I like the idea of using cherry switches for the buttons as well.

Great mod BTW the only problem is I'm building up a list of stuff I have to get besides keyboards :)

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 08 February 2010, 14:47:00

Quote from: rdjack21;157096

I'm defiantly going to have to pick myself up a LaserTrac now.

That's right.  You can go and tell Kinsington to take their Expert and shove it.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: ironman31 on Sun, 20 June 2010, 15:55:56

did you cut a hole in the l-trac to feed the wires in?

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: ironman31 on Mon, 21 June 2010, 17:59:29

what gauge wires do you use to solder to the pcb?

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: ironman31 on Wed, 21 July 2010, 19:01:36

Thanks for the great mod ripster. I had a lot of fun doing it.

(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1821/20100721195215.jpg)

(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8593/20100721195118.jpg)


The G key is a little crooked.. (first time cutting legos).

I might neat up the wires later. I also a dab of hot glue on the inside of the hole to keep the wires in place

The switch case is held onto the tracball with a couple pieces of circular velcrow.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: didjamatic on Wed, 21 July 2010, 20:19:40

OH THAT IS HOT!  My RSI is getting bad enough that I might have to spring for one.  I should have bought the one with foot pedals that sold on ebay a couple weeks ago.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: TheProfosist on Thu, 13 October 2011, 21:53:15

looking for 2 Cherry MX Blue switches to do this mod. Also if i wanted to use larger keys that require stabilizers where would i get the stabilizer mechanism? I know that WASD offers the "Spring" and the insert but what about the part the spring snaps into on the keyboard body?

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: TheProfosist on Thu, 13 October 2011, 22:56:45

Quote from: ripster;430726

Larger keys are going to be tough.  Have you considered using Sanwas?

Yes, I have but you have to press them in (past flat) if I remember correctly. I would like to just press down. I would like to use a Backspace key (or possibly even a spacebar) and put one one each side of the trackball to be used with my thumb and pinky.

If i choose to go with the spacebar (which is looking good right now as you can press it really easily and from different positions) I could order additional switches and use them as dummy switches though I dont know how much this would really stabilize the key.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: TheProfosist on Fri, 14 October 2011, 00:13:54

now that i did some more mockups the button on either side wont really work. and the only reason i wanted the button large is to be able to use it both when my hand is forward using the scroll wheel and when its back using the trackball. Looking like I will be doing the standard mod.

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: TheProfosist on Mon, 24 October 2011, 06:53:20

I guess I went a bit far but it worked out great and I am very happy with the result.


before:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/TheProfosist/atHome/IMG_0831.jpg)

after:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/TheProfosist/atHome/IMG_0842.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/TheProfosist/atHome/IMG_0847.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/TheProfosist/atHome/IMG_0852.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/TheProfosist/atHome/IMG_0859.jpg)

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: TheProfosist on Mon, 24 October 2011, 16:59:26

Quote from: ripster;437969

Looks GREAT!!!!

Now that most of the GeekGirlHaters have left Geekhack I'll give you a big one!
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Thanks

As I note I used http://tinyurl.com/3puuab2 to weight down the switch boxes. It worked out really well. I got 15oz in the 5 switch and 6oz in the 2 switch.

Also im switching from what I used on my HHKB:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/TheProfosist/GeekHack/IMG_0665.jpg

I have since switched to:
http://tinyurl.com/y94fdxx

and bought:
http://tinyurl.com/5rkhvjo

Title: CST LaserTrac 2545 Mod ... Lego My Balls
Post by: TheProfosist on Mon, 24 October 2011, 18:46:40

Quote from: ripster;438424

I bookmarked that Geckogrip stuff.

Fishing weights work too.  Plus it's fun to pound it.
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I'm a bit confused about the three right side jacks. What are those for?  They tie into R/L/M click?

yea I liked the size though easy to fit anywhere and has double stick tape already on it.