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Answer» Hey everyone, i've got an old Logitech Optical mouse with a broken right-click button so i replaced it with another mouse for my computer. Now anyone know what i should do with the broken one? It seems a waste to throw out a mouse. I like taking things apart so that's what i plan to do but is there anything useful i can do with it? Thanks for any replies.I like making bracelets with the parts. I've got bags full of little tiny motherboards and whatnot.Quote I like making bracelets with the parts. That's kinda camp. Lol, how do you make bracelets with the parts?Fill it with catnip and leave it out for the cat...Well, if the optical LIGHT still works, and you get another mouse with an optical light that goes out, you have a replacement. (Or you could just make a cool red light using the optical light and battery) Or mutalate it.... mutalating is always funI always liked this idea after seeing it on a TV SHOW, how about making a computer mouse robot. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/01/how_to_make_a_robot_from_an_ol.html Update the link appears broken and/or hidden in a pay only site. However, did find the PDF file through the G4TV zip file, which can be found through this zip file: http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/g4pdf.ziphmm...i think i'll just make a simple red (useless) light I could keep the USB cable for SOMETHING else....dunno......Rob, I'm just happy to have something to entertain me for a couple of hours when the power goes out. Heh. Quote Lol, how do you make bracelets with the parts? I get this thin plastic sheeting (real cheap stuff; can't remember exactly what it's called) and cut it to whatever measurements I want. Then I just figure out how I want everything to be displayed and I glue it in place. You, of course, have to make sure the plastic will bend once the parts are on it. To close it, you can melt the ends together (for a slip-on) or try to cut a makeshift clasp into it, which is a bit more difficult. I WISH I had some pictures 'cause it's actually pretty neat. I got the idea from all of the wacky fashions in Fruits. If you use the PS/2 or USB cable, you can also make a necklace!I tried making this really weird thing with the mouse...I was cutting sharp bits off the top of the soldered places and then i accidentally short circuited it. I remember seeing an article for putting LED's on an xbox controller so thats what i did. Ill post a picture of the finished product perhaps tomorrow.Old MeeceRight mouse button not working? Plug it into a Mac Quote Right mouse button not working? Plug it into a Mac Ooh, feel the love for Apple.Don't fall to the dark side!!! wait, Macs are white...........I don't have a mac so no POINT lol. If i use that mouse for a Mac i will keep pressing right click and getting confused

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Hey everyone, i've got an old Logitech Optical mouse with a broken right-click button so i replaced it with another mouse for my computer.
Now anyone know what i should do with the broken one? It seems a waste to throw out a mouse. I like taking things apart so that's what i plan to do but is there anything useful i can do with it?

Thanks for any replies.I like making bracelets with the parts. I've got bags full of little tiny motherboards and whatnot.Quote

I like making bracelets with the parts.

That's kinda camp.

Lol, how do you make bracelets with the parts?Fill it with catnip and leave it out for the cat...Well, if the optical LIGHT still works, and you get another mouse with an optical light that goes out, you have a replacement. (Or you could just make a cool red light using the optical light and battery)

Or mutalate it.... mutalating is always funI always liked this idea after seeing it on a TV SHOW, how about making a computer mouse robot.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/01/how_to_make_a_robot_from_an_ol.html

Update the link appears broken and/or hidden in a pay only site. However, did find the PDF file through the G4TV zip file, which can be found through this zip file:

http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/g4pdf.ziphmm...i think i'll just make a simple red (useless) light
I could keep the USB cable for SOMETHING else....dunno......Rob,
I'm just happy to have something to entertain me for a couple of hours when the power goes out. Heh.

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Lol, how do you make bracelets with the parts?

I get this thin plastic sheeting (real cheap stuff; can't remember exactly what it's called) and cut it to whatever measurements I want. Then I just figure out how I want everything to be displayed and I glue it in place. You, of course, have to make sure the plastic will bend once the parts are on it. To close it, you can melt the ends together (for a slip-on) or try to cut a makeshift clasp into it, which is a bit more difficult. I WISH I had some pictures 'cause it's actually pretty neat. I got the idea from all of the wacky fashions in Fruits.

If you use the PS/2 or USB cable, you can also make a necklace!I tried making this really weird thing with the mouse...I was cutting sharp bits off the top of the soldered places and then i accidentally short circuited it.
I remember seeing an article for putting LED's on an xbox controller so thats what i did.
Ill post a picture of the finished product perhaps tomorrow.Old MeeceRight mouse button not working? Plug it into a Mac Quote

Right mouse button not working? Plug it into a Mac

Ooh, feel the love for Apple.Don't fall to the dark side!!! wait, Macs are white...........I don't have a mac so no POINT lol. If i use that mouse for a Mac i will keep pressing right click and getting confused

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