Mon 17 Jul 2006
No, no, not the things that run around causing women to stand on chairs and scream in 1960s sitcoms (to paraphrase Douglas Adams), but the computer ones.
From our transistions through the various ages of mice, we’ve got a number of old filthy-rollered mice lying in cupboards around the place. As I mentioned on the old mouse mats post, we usually use track pads these days or optical mice if we need anything a bit more precise, so those old clogged up ones are just going to waste.
Any ideas? For either the whole mouse or any of its parts?
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sarar
July 17th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
You could use the old trackballs as cat toys - they’ll probably be a little bouncy so will keep moving when the cat hits them.
-SaraR
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Emanla Eraton
August 15th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Clean the rollers and the trackball, and give them to other people that need them. Of course you could always just chuck them out, but this site is for reusing things, not binning them.
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Joan
December 12th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
freecycle them - most non working mice just need the ball cleaned
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gia
December 8th, 2007 at 2:25 am
I had a broken Apple one button mouse, and made it to a soap holder.
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Pat
May 8th, 2008 at 12:02 am
you can put the ball in one of those refillable easter eggs, and superglue it shut. Makes a good little wobble ball for a cat to play with.
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Stuart
September 1st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Robotics hobbyists like to have the non-contact tachometers found inside mice, for measuring RPM and such. Optical mice have only one tachometer, for the scrollwheel; ball mice have two or three, for X and Y movement and for the scrollwheel if it has one.
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Giselle
September 29th, 2008 at 10:26 am
WEEE, Computer & IT Equipment can be recycle at http://www.manga-fu.com
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