what does this help if the mouse is shit LOL

@@MrMakingwavesmedia it's open source, just fix whatever is shit yourself. that's the thing, its easy to repair and you can modify it to your liking to make it the best possible mouse for you

HAHA

Dankpods moment

Two people beat me to it. Well played.

​@@xliquidflamesdi 😂y😂lebw😢❤

i didn't notice, wow

na-no

That's cool, I did not know that. Thanks for the tip!

dude thats excellent workflow thanks

The G305 is great for customizability! I've actually followed the same clay technique for printing a g305 battery cover molded to my hand.

Ayo, the soundclown man!

same problem here..

If you plan on doing a custom mouse, I'd look into modding the logitech g305. It's way more intuitive and it has a ton of community support for shell swap mods. r/mousereview might be a good place to start.

Same! They're always too small for me, and gaming mice are just ridiculously tiny and feel like the thinnest cheapest plastic crap (I guess lots of people want a super light mouse but I find it unpleasant). I might just use the internals from an MX Master or something for the BT stuff but this is a big inspiration

I mean in a pinch you could use the PCB and sensor from an existing mouse, with a new case and new buttons and reuse/relocate/replace the scrollwheel?

@@RoamingAdhocratthe mouse buttons and scroll wheel encoder should all be through hole components, desolder the fuckers. You might run into trouble because the new ones require more or less debounce but apart from that it SHOULD work. Try it on an old mouse first please.

Thank you for the info!

So you have seen the smart knob video by scottbez! Awesome project. I would assume that it is possible to implement but not without blowing the complexity of the mouse out of the water for a few reasons. As it stands the mouse features two real time systems. The communication with the PC and the position tracking. Both require pretty tight timing for that low powered microcontoller. He had to dial down the DPI for the bluetooth variant just to make do with the available resources. The knob is an entire new real time system with more added complexity. So either add more microcontollers or step it up to a beefier unit and both would impact battery life or at least make it a lot more diffficult space wise. You could just outsource the communication to a dedicated module and leave all the mouse parts to the Arduino. That would probably work but again it need energy and space. And a few compute cycles to send the information over.

The rotary encoder on the mouse wheel is the first to fail or glitch in my experience. After I learned that logitech puts opto-pair on even the cheapest mouses, it becomes my favorite brand.

I suppose I could try making some instructional videos. I'm completely self-taught, mostly by just watching tutorials, but I do understand that it can be overwhelming. Right now I'm focused on building my next project, but I will consider your suggestion for the future. Thanks for watching!

@@benmakeseverything Thank you so much and I'll make sure to check my subscription box :)

I recall reading somewhere that the reason Logitech's switches tend to fail is because they don't use them correctly. They're only designed for so much voltage, and Logitech puts too much through them, resulting in arcing, which results in deposits building up on the contacts, making them not click properly. You can pull the switches apart and clean the contacts, but from what I've seen, that's going to be super-fiddly.

Good tip, thanks! But all the squats are good exercise haha

a god among men.

...you beat me to it. Well played.

Dankpods

Yes the dankpods official

r/suddenlyDankPods

them keyboard switches sound mighty good, I might need to brake out my hurdur 6hunjos from me ole mate seni.

Thank you. My day job is building websites, but I have always made stuff since I was a kid and also enjoy drawing/painting, etc.

@@benmakeseverything Great to hear, I would suggest you to do a video for tips on how you learn stuff and organize your project. That could be interesting

PS, it's pretty handy to have PGUP/PGDN, Home/End, Ctrl+T/W, Ctrl+Shift+T/W, and Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab on the mouse as a power user of the WWW.

Some sensors are pretty easy to source from aliexpress, digikey, mouser and others. I ended up postponing building a DIY trackball as the Ploopy Thumb Trackball fits my needs damn nearly perfectly. And it's open source too. Although the DIY mouse and trackball communities aren't as big as the DIY keyboard community, there are plenty of resources online.

@@gcolombelli I've been looking the last couple of days and they are available now in 'normal' quantities. 3y ago I would have had to source them trough alibaba with moq of 10000

Thanks for the tips!

I did try to create a version using a Feather S3, which is ESP32-based. That was the wireless version mentioned in the video. Unfortunately, the latency was not very good. It may be that the code was not optimized, but I figure there is probably a good reason that commercially available wireless mice use a dedicated USB receiver...

Thank you! I can't find my scale right now, to weigh it but if I do, I'll let you know.

@@benmakeseverything appreciate your attention to my comment. I'd be grateful if you'd do that for me!

Found the scale. 143 grams/5oz

@@benmakeseverything DAAAAMMMM that's a lot, does it feel that heavy anyway?

@@centip3de930 Not really, I barely noticed a difference from my other mouse, but then it comes down to personal preference

You could put really stiff switches in the mouse that can support a finger resting on it!

I don't actually have to do that, no idea why I was in this video clip, probably should have used a different one here. The buttons aren't THAT sensitive. but I appreciate the feedback! sorry to hear about your injury.

Okay, my hands are bigger than most other guys I know (by about 1cm) and measure barely over that average (7.7"), so I had to look at where they got their information and most seem to refer to a NASA report which in turn refers to some old military data and that data appears to use a mean average (the NASA page says 50th percentile which is median but the paper it references says "MEAN" which was 19.1cm and 19.2cm in the table I could find in the paper which is 7.52" and 7.56" respectively, I couldn't find any other reference to hand length in the paper that had numbers) The biggest thing to me is that it says "mean" (allowing for outliers to have more influence on the results) mode would be preferable if we want to talk about average sizes for people since when we say average size of something we tend to mean most common size For anyone who doesn't know the difference this is from britannica: The arithmetic mean is found by adding the numbers and dividing the sum by the number of numbers in the list. This is what is most often meant by an average. The median is the middle value in a list ordered from smallest to largest. The mode is the most frequently occurring value on the list. Simplified version: Mean = add all your numbers together and divide that by how many numbers there were in your list Median = list all your numbers in order of smallest to largest and pick the one in the middle of the list Mode = the most common number in your list Out of these averages mode would be best used in this situation since when we say the average size of something in conversation we generally mean the most common. Depending on the sample size the most common number will skew the mean and median averages towards it so long as the outliers aren't too big a deviation but I'd still go with mode for anatomy Another thing that comes to mind is it being military data the subjects might have had a larger than average build but I'm unsure how accurate that assumption would be in reality so this may be meaningless to say This could've been a waste of time but that either means the subjects averaged larger than most, the outliers tended towards being larger, or the people I know have kinda small hands edit: After a quick google looking for an australian study, I couldn't find anything, but I did find this: A British Study found that hand sizes for males range from 6.25" to 8.1" with an average hand size of 7.44" Which is closer to my personal observations

Yeah, that's an option for sure. It was definitely more work this way, but I did learn a lot during the process!