cybertron
08-22-2006, 08:34 PM
For your amusement, my first real mod.:)
I added a couple of yellow LEDs to an old Logitech cordless mouse I had lying around. Why yellow? Because that was one of the colors that came in the 20 pack of LEDs I picked up at Radio Shack and I was hoping through the blue plastic it would make green. No such luck. They don't list the volt or amp ratings so I burned a couple out before I figured out what I needed, and they're really dim LEDs (one in particular) but they served their purpose. I successfully managed to add LEDs to something and I got some practice soldering.
I would have changed the color of the sensor LED but it was encased and would have been more trouble than it was worth to change. Plus I don't think these are bright enough to work for a mouse.
Anyway, here's the incriminating evidence:
First try - tiny little LEDs and an awful soldering job. Eventually I broke these off trying to rearrange them to fit (this mouse has very little space inside) and decided to go with the two bigger yellow ones instead:
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod1.jpg
You can see the ghetto piece of cardboard I had to put in between the wires to keep them from shorting out. Lazy? Yeah. Works? Yeah.:)
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod2.jpg
One side.
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod3.jpg
The other side with the crappy dim LED.
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod4.jpg
Now I need to go get some decent LEDs (glad I didn't in the first place, I would have been pissed if I burned out a $5 LED instead of a 10 cent LED but then if I had had voltage information for them I probably wouldn't have burned them out either). I've always kind of wanted to paint that silver black too, but we'll see on that. I don't actually use this mouse anymore so there's not much point in putting a lot of time into it.;)
I added a couple of yellow LEDs to an old Logitech cordless mouse I had lying around. Why yellow? Because that was one of the colors that came in the 20 pack of LEDs I picked up at Radio Shack and I was hoping through the blue plastic it would make green. No such luck. They don't list the volt or amp ratings so I burned a couple out before I figured out what I needed, and they're really dim LEDs (one in particular) but they served their purpose. I successfully managed to add LEDs to something and I got some practice soldering.
I would have changed the color of the sensor LED but it was encased and would have been more trouble than it was worth to change. Plus I don't think these are bright enough to work for a mouse.
Anyway, here's the incriminating evidence:
First try - tiny little LEDs and an awful soldering job. Eventually I broke these off trying to rearrange them to fit (this mouse has very little space inside) and decided to go with the two bigger yellow ones instead:
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod1.jpg
You can see the ghetto piece of cardboard I had to put in between the wires to keep them from shorting out. Lazy? Yeah. Works? Yeah.:)
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod2.jpg
One side.
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod3.jpg
The other side with the crappy dim LED.
http://www.nemebean.com/mods/MouseMod4.jpg
Now I need to go get some decent LEDs (glad I didn't in the first place, I would have been pissed if I burned out a $5 LED instead of a 10 cent LED but then if I had had voltage information for them I probably wouldn't have burned them out either). I've always kind of wanted to paint that silver black too, but we'll see on that. I don't actually use this mouse anymore so there's not much point in putting a lot of time into it.;)