{"id":464,"date":"2015-12-11T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2015-12-11T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:55:59","slug":"amiga-mouse-to-pc-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/amiga-mouse-to-pc-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"Amiga Mouse to PC mod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2865.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2865.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2865\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2865.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2865-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI know a lot of people dislike the original Amiga mouse and use modern mice on their computers but I feel it\u2019s mostly because of the ball. What would  be perfect is an Amiga mouse but with optical sensor.<br \/>\nSo I made it. For my PC.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI hate modern mice, they are all tiny so as to be portable. My hand is not tiny. So I took an Amiga mouse, gutted it, dremmelled out all the spare plastic and fitted the optical mouse mechanism inside. To keep the authentic feeling I kept the original cable wiring the USB to 4 of the pins inside. I then built a 9pin to USB adapter cable which goes to the PC. So on my desk I have what is visually an original Amiga mouse with a 9pin adapter going to USB on my PC. It works perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>The buttons on the new PCB didn\u2019t come anywhere close to the buttons on the top of the mouse so I simply added to small push buttons in the right place and soldered wires to the connections for the buttons on the PCB. The end result is a working 2 button Amiga Optical USB Mouse. I am trying to work out how to add a third button and\/or scroll wheel without ruining the asthetic of the original mouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2866.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2866.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2866\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2866.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2866-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2867.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2867\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2867.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2867-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of people dislike the original Amiga mouse and use modern mice on their computers but I feel it\u2019s mostly because of the ball. What would be perfect is an Amiga mouse but with optical sensor. So I made it. For my PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyrofersprojects.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}