“[whatsisface] sent in his scratch built clone of a Griffin PowerMate. The PowerMate… is just a big knob, so it’s easy to why more than one person has attempted this. “

Rephrase asap.

Posted at 9:54 pm on Aug 17th, 2008 by pip

This is a repost
-Optical control wheel utilizing mouse components-
+Using USB2Midi you can use this to control a multitude of softwares. But alas this is old news.

http://www.hackaday.com/2007/06/23/turntable-mouse-interface/

http://terminatorx.org/turntable.html

Picture link
[url]http://terminatorx.org/pix/adam2.jpg/url]

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/07/terminatorx_turntable_gal.html

Where do you guys get these editors from? Reposts? Cmon guys…… trim the fat.

Posted at 11:03 pm on Aug 17th, 2008 by 36chambers

repost is a repost of a repost reposting reposts

Posted at 12:24 am on Aug 18th, 2008 by max

pip, Jason fixed it. Thank you.

36chambers, turntable mice? Where did that come from? Looks to me like we’re posting VCR head based mice http://www.hackaday.com/2006/04/11/ergonomic-vertical-mouse/

Posted at 1:59 am on Aug 18th, 2008 by Eliot

Elliot- Did you even read my posting or did you just briefly glance at it?

What I linked to, and has been posted here b4 is just what the above is = A linear single axis interface device – based off of hacking a mouse

This is no different than opening up your trackball mouse and turning the slotted optical wheel yourself, except that instead you turn another wheel, and that turns the optical encodding wheel inside the mouse.

I also feel the jogwheel hacks that was posted earlier are more advanced, as some utlilize the button inputs as well.

This is harldy a hack- and is along the lines of stuffing shit into something and calling it a hack… remember the NES cellphone?

Posted at 2:50 am on Aug 18th, 2008 by 36chambers

Also the Terminatorx Turntable style mouse jogwheel thing is circa 1999.

Posted at 2:53 am on Aug 18th, 2008 by 36chambers

I’m actually going to make a jog wheel, useful for many things.
I’m also surprised hackaday would post fanatically about something that has been done many times already.

Posted at 3:41 am on Aug 18th, 2008 by pip

Neat, but I guess I don’t understand why someone would want to use this over the wheel built into a wheel mouse.

Posted at 10:19 am on Aug 18th, 2008 by Michael

#8 i built one of these a long time ago before the original of this repost got posted here. Anyway the reason i did it was simple because there are often times i have to go through huge freaking directories. mine however was done with a very heavy knob and nice new ball bearings so i can spin and scroll and stop when i need to. it is easier and crazy amounts faster than using a mouse

but i’m with everyone else, i’m not sure why a repost is being posted as a hack….

Posted at 1:46 pm on Aug 18th, 2008 by h_2_o

Built one of these out of boredom today. Sure, it’s a simple hack, but sometimes hacking isn’t about obscure tech or incredible feats, it’s just about something neat that someone did.
Personally, I like the little bugger quite well, especially good in the morning when I’m too lazy to do anything but scroll anyway.

Posted at 8:17 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by rectilinear