.. and mouse

From the same notebook I got a tiny trackball. It has a logitech controller IC on it which I originally wanted to interface (because it appeared as a separate COM port to the notebook when it worked or so I heard and I thought it must have serial signals then) but since I found no datasheet(Logitech 330069-00) and any attempt at hooking it up to the serial port without a MAX(3)232 failed I discarded the idea. However I did have a ball mouse handy that I hated since the day I got it. It was a Micro$oft Wireless Desktop Wheel Mouse (and there's probably "intelli" in it's name somewhere) the worst mouse I ever owned. This mouse made me hate wireless mice, if I didn't touch it for 5 seconds it went to sleep, and it didn't automatically reconnect. So using it was 90% picking mouse up, pushing connect button, putting mouse down. Drove me crazy after a while. So it's perfect for this utterly pointless small project.


Pictures show the trackball and the insides of the M$ mouse

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