What can you do with an old mouse? and got the best answer
Answer from User deleted[guru]
Only it is better to make the lamp LED, since incandescent lamps get very hot, and the plastic of the mouse will probably melt.
P.S. Very good LEDs can be taken from lighters with flashlights. Lighters can withstand only 2-3 refills, and the LED is almost eternal.
Source: We don't throw anything away, we don't sell, and we try not to buy. But we give and select, we repair and do it ourselves!
Answer from Yashpa[guru]
take a three-liter jar, pour sawdust, cut an apple, a carrot and put your mouse there - let it live on
Answer from Dimon XXX[expert]
You can make an interesting table lamp: attach a stand at the place where the wire is attached (it can be ready from an unnecessary lamp), instead of a ball, a light bulb. The switch can be made from the filling of the mouse itself at the touch of a button. You can also change the incandescence of the lamp with a scroller and much more.
In this case, everything depends on the imagination and knowledge of electrical engineering.
Answer from Linza[guru]
Look at what brand it is. Go to their website and offer them to buy a rarity from you! Will it be in money!?
Answer from Nikolai Davydov[guru]
hang it on the wall (cut it. glue the glass beads - let your imagination run wild)
Answer from death watch[active]
leave of course .... I have a row of mice, I take out a good old ball mouse and go ....
Answer from SHP!ON[guru]
draw eyes with a marker, cut the wire shorter and you can put it on the shelf
and you will be happy!
Answer from dirty trick[guru]
throw it away and buy a new one where is your logic?
Answer from Owl[guru]
Blimey! RARITE is real. Since 1999, so many mice have died of their own death, and here - a long-liver right. It is imperative to find a worthy use for such a veteran.
Answer from above me[master]
Disassemble to find out what's inside, I've already dismantled 3 pieces
Answer from Copperhead[guru]
Don't throw away! She still can survive three new ones!
Answer from neohuman[guru]
You can, for example, paint in a folk or other style - to make an exclusive.
You can then varnish it so that the paint does not rub off (this is how they do it)
Answer from Mark Slavin[active]
give it to the old cat
Answer from User deleted[active]
Throw it out!!
Answer from User deleted[guru]
fit her to the cat
Answer from Elena Starky[guru]
Hang in the fridge 🙂 And show guests "My mouse hanged itself" 🙂
I have been dreaming of doing this for a long time, all hands do not reach 🙂
Answer from 2 answers[guru]
"Everything is temporary. Love, art, planet Earth, you, me. Especially me." (99 Franks)
Nothing in this world lasts forever, and the life of gadgets is sometimes very fleeting. But if you love retro style, are frugal and resourceful by nature, then you can give them a second chance by converting them into something useful and looking retro.
5. Turning an old mouse into a wireless one
Older mice aren't as comfortable and ergonomic as newer models, but they feel as comfortable as an old shirt that's so old that you sneak it around the house on the weekends while no one sees, simply because it's been with you for a long time and you used to it :) If you still use the old wired mouse, or saved it as an old battle friend, now is the time to convert it into a wireless Bluetooth mouse by simply replacing the innards of the old mouse with the innards of the new one.
Let's say right away that this is a decision dictated solely by a sense of nostalgia, rather than practical considerations. If an old mouse is too uncomfortable for weekly use, then you can make a camera shutter out of it.
4. Turning an analog TV into an information terminal
Most likely, you have already updated your entire fleet of TVs for a long time, and the old people, CRT monitors, are gathering dust at best, somewhere in the country. You can give an old TV a new lease of life by turning it into a YBOX (homemade information screen that shows, for example, the weather).
An alternative use is a retro photo frame, which can be placed in the living room. To turn a TV into a photo frame, you need to remove the insides of the TV and replace them with the old sockets and power cord from the lamp, screw in a low power CFL lamp, insert a printed image on the screen, close it and turn on the “TV”.
Now you have a fun retro frame.
If you don't want to waste electricity, make their old monitor a trash can.
3. We make an aquarium out of an old TV or computer
A project from the "incredible but true" series marked "dangerous". Do at your own risk. If you have an old TV, computer, or other junk with lots of space inside, you can turn it into an aquarium.
If you want to use Floppy disks for their intended purpose, then you can put USB in them.
1. Making a VoIP phone out of a rotary phone
If you're having a hard time saying goodbye to your old rotary phone, you can turn it into a fun PC headset to use with Google Voice, Skype, or any other VoIP solution.
If you have some unnecessary cordless phones(not quite old), you can make good walkie-talkie radios out of them.
I hope this collection of ideas for transforming old gadgets has inspired you. By following the links you will see visual guides on how to do this or that thing, on English language. All guides are provided with a good visualization of each of the conversion steps.
Who in childhood did not dream of laser? Some men still dream. Ordinary laser pointers with low power are no longer relevant, as their power leaves much to be desired. There are 2 ways left: buy an expensive laser or make it at home from improvised means.
There are the following ways to make a laser with your own hands:
- From an old or broken DVD drive
- From computer mouse and flashlight
- From a kit of parts purchased from an electronics store
How to make a laser at home from the oldDVDdrive
How to make a laser from a computer mouse
The power of a laser made from computer mouse will be much less than the laser power produced by the previous method. The manufacturing process is not much different.
- First of all, find an old or unwanted mouse with a visible laser of any color. Mice with an invisible glow will not work for obvious reasons.
- Next, carefully disassemble it. Inside you will notice a laser that will have to be soldered with a soldering iron.
- Now repeat steps 3-5 from the above instructions. The difference between such lasers, we repeat, is only in power.
You constantly use a computer mouse (or, to put it "pretentiously" a mechanical manipulator that converts movement into a control signal), but have you ever thought about what you can do with a computer mouse? It turns out not so little. Select an object or copy it, move or delete it, open or close a file or folder, all and much more can be done with a computer mouse. That's what we'll talk about.
In this lesson, we will get acquainted with a computer mouse, learn some secrets of it, and also find out what you can do with the mouse on in the browser. You, using the mouse, can select a folder, file or some program and perform some actions, move around the desktop area, open a folder or run a program. You can copy or delete a word or an entire text.
Computer mice are ball, laser, wired, wireless. But the principle of operation is the same for everyone. When you move the mouse over the surface of your table, the cursor moves on the monitor screen, duplicating your actions. The main buttons needed to work with a computer mouse are only three. This is a left and right key and a scroll wheel (scroll English scroll). Using a computer mouse and additional keyboard buttons, you can significantly simplify and facilitate many operations on the desktop, when working in programs and in browsers. Let's get acquainted with some tricks of working with the mouse.
The simplest operation, which you probably already had to perform, is to select some text. To do this, simply put a vertical slash at the beginning of the text. It is also called in English pipe(in Russian you can safely pronounce "pipe") To do this, with the left mouse button, click at the beginning of the text and holding left button mouse and drag (without releasing the button) to the place where the desired text ends. But what if the length of the text exceeds the size of the page? The following combination will help you here. Put the cursor at the beginning of the text, hold down the key, on the keyboard, Shift and click the left mouse button, without releasing the key on the keyboard, go to the end of the desired text and press the left key again. All text is selected, you can perform further actions with it.
Copy and paste text.
You need to transfer part or all of the text to another location or folder. We already know how to select text. Now, on the selected text, right-click and in the context (drop-down) menu find "copy" and click on this item. Everything necessary information saved in your clipboard (Clipboard, if you don’t go into details, temporary storage where you store the files, folders, text you copied). Now find the place where you need to paste the copied, click on it with the right mouse button and in the drop-down menu, select "paste". These operations can be done in a different way. Select the one you want, then hold down the keyboard keys CTRL + C. Everything is copied. Choose the place where you want to paste the copied, put a slash (one click with the left mouse button) in the right place and press the CTRL + C keys. That's it - the text is inserted.
We change the scale.
Sometimes, when you open some site or page and see that it is very small font. Not everyone, especially older people, have good eyesight and it is difficult for them to read such a font. It turns out that this can be fixed quite simply. To do this, hold down the CTRL key and scroll the mouse wheel forward or backward. Accordingly, the font size will increase or decrease.
Open link in a new tab.
You have already had to, while working on a page, go to another page or tab without closing the first one. In this case, you performed the following action: “Right-click on the link and in the menu that opens, select - Open page in a new window.” But the whole process can be simplified. Hold down the CTRL key and click on the link. That's it, the link will open in a new window.
Move with the right mouse button.
You already know how to move a folder or shortcut in the plane of the desktop. For those who don't know, let me know. Hold the selected object with the left mouse button and, without releasing, move it to the selected location. But it turns out that this operation can be performed with the help of the right button. The principle is the same. Right click and drag to the desired location. When you release the key, a menu will open where you will be asked about your next steps. Choose what you need.
Highlight a word or text.
If you need to select a word, then just move the mouse cursor over the desired word and double-click the left button. Is it possible to select the desired paragraph in this way? Certainly. Place the cursor again at the beginning of the text and click the left button three times. All the necessary paragraph is selected, you can perform further actions with it.
Third button.
Most users do not use the third mouse button. Few people know about its capabilities. And those nevertheless something she can. For example, when you open a browser page and click on the wheel, the cursor will change to a round one. Now it is possible, by moving the cursor in different directions, the movement of the page on the screen will also scroll in all directions, and the further the scroll pointer moves, the faster the page will scroll. Sometimes very handy when scrolling through pages with large text.
Here are some little tricks of the computer mouse. That's where we'll stop. Of course, the topic is much broader than it is stated, but throughout all subsequent lessons, we will return to this issue.
In the next lesson, we will get acquainted with the concept of keyboard shortcuts. These are combinations of two or more keys that can be pressed to perform tasks that usually require the use of a mouse or other pointing device. Keyboard shortcuts make working with your computer easier, saving you time and effort when working with Windows and other programs...
Until then, I say goodbye to you. As always, questions, feedback and of course comments from you. If you have not subscribed to my news yet, then welcome!
Nowadays, even from a computer mouse, you can make original things. Many lovers of fakes have long figured out how to use a broken mouse.
Is it worth throwing out an old computer mouse
Sometimes a computer mouse becomes unusable, sometimes you have to replace an outdated model with a more modern one because of convenience. Often in this case appearance and its contents remain in good condition. If you don’t want to throw away computer parts that have expired, you can give them a new life by using them to create interesting things.
What can be done from a computer mouse: ideas
External and internal parts from the old device will be useful for creating the following original things.
Robot
From an unnecessary ball mouse you get a light-sensitive robot. For this, the parts are disassembled, the switches and the infrared emitter are left for work. The body must be freed from unnecessary parts and protrusions, attach wheels wrapped with rubber tape in three layers. Next, you need a relay that needs to be installed inside the case, connect the right contacts and solder the wire. To work, the robot will also need a small chip, it must be placed inside the case. It remains to make two holes for the eyes and one for led lamp in the front and one tumbler hole in the back. Contacts are attached to the right and left motors, eyes and battery are connected. The robot is turned on with the help of a tumblr.
Flashlight
By inserting an LED inside the case, you can get a small flashlight. In the same way, a small table stand or lamp is obtained. A stand is attached at the place where the wire is connected, and a lighting lamp can be installed at the place of the ball.
Important! Do not use incandescent lamps as illumination. When heated, they can damage the plastic of which the mouse body is made.
Tachometer
Using the board from the old mouse, you get a tachometer. Transistors and an LED board element will come in handy. A resistor is soldered into the free hole of the controller, and a contact from the phototransistor is connected to the board connector. It remains to connect the tachometer through the connector to the computer. The resulting device counts the rotation pulses per second and displays the data on the monitor.
Winder
A hole is drilled in the upper part of the body, into which an adapter with a convenient nozzle is placed. Such a winder will turn out to be mechanical and will rotate due to the movement of the adapter.
What can be done from a variety of computer mice
If there are a lot of mice from the computer, you can use them by making:
speakers
By dismantling the plastic case and placing a small speaker there, you can get audio speakers. To do this, unscrew the screw with a screwdriver, divide the device into two parts. Place a speaker of suitable size inside. The wiring must be cleaned, the contacts and their compatibility with the color of the wire must be checked with a tester. Then, using hot glue, firmly fix the speaker disc inside and connect both parts of the case. Such portable speaker suitable for phone, tablet, player and even computer.
Advice! If you make a hole in the front of the mouse body, the sound will be more powerful.
Robocop robot
This idea will succeed if a lot of broken mice from the computer have accumulated at home. From them you can assemble the body and limbs of a complex robot. The role of such crafts can only be decorative, but if you equip the robot with an electric mechanism, you can get an interesting toy that can move and emit light.
