When building your own homebrew computer, everything is a challenge. Ultimately, that’s kind of the point. If you didn’t want to really get your hands dirty with the nuts and bolts of the thing, you ...

In this tutorial, I will show how you can handle the optical sensor inside a cheap optical-mouse for your next microcontroller project. Hope, this will allow your preferred microcontroller to look at ...

The only creature stirring on your desk this Xmas should be a mouse, a snowglobe mouse, really (haha!). It’s your standard optical USB mouse with scrollwheel, with the exception of the damned snow ...

As the world of electronic gadgetry made the switch from micro USB to USB-C as the charging port of choice, many of us kept both of the required cables handy. But it’s fair to say that these days a ...

I want to write about something a little different this time. I removed the mechanical scroll wheel rotary encoder from a discarded optical mouse and used it in a little project. I really liked the ...

The Super Slim USB Optical Mouse is a marvel of modern design, standing just 14mm tall by 45mm wide by 64mm long, and weighing in at a mere 28g. This ultra-compact size makes it an ideal choice for ...

Another question I have about linux, I have a USB Optical mouse (Genius brand) And although the BIOS detects it, as soon as the OS boots, the mouse turns off. I already activated the USB and USB ...

Oh man, this mouse sends shooting pains all the way up my arm just by looking at it. But it’s small and very portable! At only 14mm in height, you’d think this USB optical mouse would be woefully ...

IOGEAR, which makes USB and FireWire peripherals, has introduced a teeny USB optical mouse, Mini Mouse, for road warriors. Smaller than a credit card (3.5 by 1.5 by 1.75 inches), the Mini Mouse has no ...

i had them all working well together, then i did some updates to debian and now X and Debian are getting along fairly well, but the usb mouse is not playing well with the others. before the updates i ...