"Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change 500
A reader sent us the
HOWTO for changing that red LED on your fancy-pants new optical mouse to blue - or, I suppose any other color. I think I'm fine with what I've got - although, the glass tops on tables does make using optical mice a pain there.
Fix for glass tabletops... (Score:5, Funny)
Rub some sandpaper over the part of the glass where the mouse will be. Problem solved!
Red/White/Blue... (Score:5, Funny)
Not so fine (Score:5, Funny)
I thought I was fine with what I had too, until I got a glass tabletop... and started working without pants. Now I just cry every time I look down.
Damn you /.! (Score:4, Funny)
Aw, MAN! And I was just getting caught up on all of my ridiculous case modding and converting my Geo Storm into a Geo Storm "Type R"...
(Like Heston) Damn you. DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
Re:Cool looking, But... (Score:5, Funny)
Hrmm... (Score:5, Funny)
How many Slashdot'ers does it take to change an LED?
Answer: The ISP hosting the site is about to find out....
Re:Resolution (Score:4, Funny)
Red is for mood. (Score:5, Funny)
The faint glow of a red light while looking at pr0n just seems natural.
Glass tabletop fix (Score:2, Funny)
Tape a mouse pad under the glass top.
Re:Damn you /.! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fix for glass tabletops... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Re:what about ultra-violet? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that would be smart. All over the world geeks would be getting major sunburns on their right palms.
Re:Damn you /.! (Score:4, Funny)
Geo Storm "Type R"
You too? I got an extra sticker if you need it.
(Like Heston) Damn you. DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
Well, since he has Reagan Disease (Alzheimers), shouldn't that be more like: Damn you. Dam holds water. Sandwich ape! Gun go boom! Hello pill lady. PILL LADY IS MADE OF APES!
I say orange.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Article: Desoldering LEDs (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what about ultra-violet? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh well, Karma suicide for a good joke....
Re:what about ultra-violet? (Score:5, Funny)
Thereby ruining their sex lives.
Re:Glass tabletop fix (Score:5, Funny)
Of course I was kidding, but you just gave me an idea. I can put the red LED's in the eyes of the pink flamingos out in my front yard...
Computer mods... (Score:5, Funny)
However, the main difference I can see between the two is that when the car modders have finished, they drive around town and OCCASIONALLY some girl stops, thinks its cool, and gets in with them, while mouse modders can only use their accomplishment to click on "sign me up" for yet another porn site
Blue LED? Nah!! (Score:5, Funny)
It would be pretty damn good at playing quake as well, much better than me.
If I could find a mouse like that, well heck, then it could have a blue LED. Until then though, only red for it, until it gets smarter and starts doing some damn work for a change instead of just sitting there until I push it.
Re:Optical Mouse on Glass Table? (Score:3, Funny)
Mice are kinda like lightsabers for programmers (Score:5, Funny)
Bah, they're not doing it right... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mice are kinda like lightsabers for programmers (Score:5, Funny)
That would at least explain the reason for the LED's used by Microsoft mice.
Re:The reason they use red... (Score:5, Funny)
About as cool as a 20 year old Sun optical mouse
Re:Not so fine (Score:2, Funny)
After reading this article... (Score:3, Funny)
In other words... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just use a proper optical mouse... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd feel sorry for them if you are playing Unreal too.
Re:why?? (Score:5, Funny)
Red, it is.
Feel it, you can.
Blue, it must become.
The force is not strong with you... Much to learn you have.
Blue (Score:2, Funny)
Must be because of the new PowerBook and Aqua.
Re:Damn you /.! (Score:4, Funny)
I changed my case led's to show 133 when I actually only have a 100, a racing stripe on my burner, swiped an "Intel inside" sticker from a disply at Walmart and I hooked the 2940UW external led connector to the green power AND the yellow turbo light on the case front. Eventually I'll fire up Winbench but I figure I'm good for at least 60 more FPS in Doom..
Re:The reason they use red... (Score:4, Funny)
I remembered when someone told me about the "New" Microsoft optical mouse. at the time I was working on a Sun Workstation in the computer lab, and he was talking some junk on how inovative MS is. So basicly I turned the mose over that I was working with and showed him that it didnt have a mouse ball. Then I told him that this particular mouse is about 6 years old. Luckaly that shut him up and I was able to get to work.
Re:Which color works best? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just use a proper optical mouse... (Score:3, Funny)
Night Vision (Score:3, Funny)
On submarines and ships, they used to have only red lights inside when it was dark (or the person who had to go outside would wear red goggles inside). This was to preserve the ability to see detail in the dark. The eye's light sensors are able to recover quickly from red light, less so from other wavelengths.
Remember this at your next dimly-lit LAN party, where you've modded your computer and mouse with blue LEDs. And don't blame me when you trip and fall on the way to the fridge for another Mountain Dew. Or get fragged by someone you never saw, because your dark sensitivity was diminished after staring lovingly at your glowing blue mouse during respawn.
How can a site named "extrememhz.com"... (Score:4, Funny)
I suppose "extreme" could refer to minimum.
Re:Hrmm... (Score:2, Funny)
For some numbers:
40% to remark on how cool it is
30% to wonder "why would anyone want to do this?"
10% to ponder the ramifications of attempting such a mod
9% to point out others' spelling/grammar errors, even though they completely understood the post
7% to warn about the dangers that this kind of a mod entails
6% to go off on unrelated rants because someone said something that rubbed them the wrong way
5% to note that they've already done it and how it changed their lives
3% to make sure everyone knows that they got FP or link to goatse
Yeah, it's 110%. But there are a lot of Slashdotters.
--Jeremy
Re:why?? (Score:1, Funny)
oh know, i just gave away my plan...
Re:what about ultra-violet? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what about ultra-violet? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:why?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just use a proper optical mouse... (Score:3, Funny)
Does the CD work after you've scratched it up after several hours of mousepad duty?
2001 Flashbacks (Score:2, Funny)
Quack (Score:4, Funny)
Or for repairing a broken duck.
Personally, I prefer using DUCT tape for most applications, including removing warts [msnbc.com]. Doesn't work all that well for taping ducts [lbl.gov], though.
Re:The reason they use red... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I have to tell this story. Some guys at work took a Sun to a trade-show. As luck would have it, they forgot to pack the mousepad that goes with one of those mice. It was a Saturday; they were in a far-away city, and none of the stores carried that pad. The demo was to start the next day, and we couldn't send them a mousepad that quickly.
So what did they do? What all good engineers do: they improvised. They took mirror (bought at a local store) the size of the mousepad, and took some filament tape (used for packaging). They put the tape horizontally on half the mirror; vertically on the other half. To move the mouse, you would scan it on the 'horizontal' half till you got to the right row, and the 'vertical' half to get to the right column. Since the demo wasn't really _that_ mouse-intensive, it worked like a charm!
Goes down in my book as one of the coolest hacks under crunch. I know, its off-topic, but the site is slashdotted and we need some idle conversation here.. :-)
Re:what about ultra-violet? (Score:2, Funny)
W00t I'm safe!
Re:Fix for glass tabletops... (Score:2, Funny)
Don't you have any respect for your old network equipment ? Who uses a router "to round the edges" to put his mouse on?
Re:why?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mice are kinda like lightsabers for programmers (Score:3, Funny)
Who's Red? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:why?? (Score:2, Funny)
I think it'd be cool as hell to have a blue LED light under my mouse.
When I first read that I thought you said house, and I pictures a building raised up, with blue light eminating from under it, like a modded car.
That'd be kinda cool...
Michael
HOWTO: Optical mice on a glass table/desk (Score:2, Funny)
1. Take a piece of paper, about letter size (8.5 x 11 inches) and set it on top of the glass surface.
2. secure it with tape or glue.
3. Mouse on new paper surface. Consider this a table-top surface-mount upgrade, if you will. This is the PaperSurface 1.0 upgrade, the six-second solution to most of my mousing problems.
I think this is one of those problems that takes less time to actually fix, than to mention it as being a problem.
Re:HOWTO: Optical mice on a glass table/desk (Score:2, Funny)