When bad things happen to good Mighty Mice
Benjamin Fourmond, a fearless modder describes converting his eBay Mighty Mouse into a more vintage look on his website. He opened up his mouse, extracted the inner electronics and, with a few modifications to the vintage housing, managed to insert it into an old ADB style mouse. Fortunately for his sake, the internal electronic boards were approximately the same size, although he did need to drill into the housing to allow access to the new scroll ball. In the end, with the help of an ADB to USB connector, he made the Frankenmouse work.
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MILE said 10:51AM on 12-14-2006
Uhm...and just why would someone want to do that anyway...?!?
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kris said 2:01PM on 12-14-2006
Because it's cool obviously. that ol' classic mouse is still my fav apple rodent ever to hold anyways, if i could have it wireless and optical (without modding myself, i'm lame like that) i'd probably get one immediately.
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E.T.Cook said 11:15AM on 12-14-2006
That would assume that the Mighty Mouse was good in the first place. One of the only Apple products I regret purchasing is my wireless Mighty Mouse. Accurate right or left click...yeah right...whatever you say. I can just imagine if I had sausage fingers I would be middle clicking all day long.
Jobs, stop being a pretentious jackass and give me a true two button mouse.
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Gary Wenz... said 12:14PM on 12-14-2006
Yawn...
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Joe Cabrera said 2:08PM on 12-14-2006
Because you CAN. It's a geek thing.
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Fritz Laurel said 2:28PM on 12-14-2006
Why would you need an ADB to USB connector?? If he replaced the boards, there's no ADB anymore, and presumably he would have taken the USB cable from the Mighty Mouse anyway. Me no understand.
Cheers,
FL
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Nick said 3:53PM on 12-14-2006
I wasn't happy with my mighty mouse - but it didn't bother me too much.
Until I was playing a game and realized I couldn't click both buttons at the same time..
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Doug Adams said 3:30PM on 12-14-2006
Bravo!...or something...
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thomas said 5:18PM on 12-14-2006
This EXACT same article was posted 6 months ago.
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/06/10/adb-mighty-mouse/
What's for tomorrow's news? Zidane's headbutt?
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