Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Cannibalizing a Scrolling Mouse

So, I'm taking this scrolling mouse (see that red round button - it's important)














and its USB connection and connect it to a laptop running MaxMSPJitter.  A digital Pico projector will also be connected to the laptop.













I took the board out of the mouse and now will need to decide how to connect it to or conceal it in one of the antique hand-crank projectors.












The red scroll button normally connects to the potentiometer on the board. My next task is to create a connection between the crank mechanism of the hand-crank projectors to the potentiometer.  The potentiometer signal will deliver the speed and direction of the cranking to a Jitter patch. The Jitter patch will spit out the rate and direction of the video according to the cranking. The video will play through the digital projector that will eventually be placed somewhere inside the hand-crank projector. This is some fun stuff!!!!

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