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Trackball Mod part 1
Trackball Mod part 1, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Obscenely large trackball, $5. Obtain used USB ball mouse from fools at Goodwill, $3. Spending hours making something you don’t...
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Trackball Mod part 2
Trackball Mod part 2, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Mouse rotary encoder disks have been liberated from their plastic spindles. They each were then mounted on a 10-32 bolt with a...
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Trackball Mod part 3
Trackball Mod part 3, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Before we go any further, we need to tighten our tolerances. New shorter bolts, with hex caps, for encoder disks. The spacers were...
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Trackball Mod part 4
Trackball Mod part 4, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Served up here are most of the electronics to go into the trackball. Forget everything you’ve learned about working with...
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Trackball Mod part 5
Trackball Mod part 5, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Utter failure! Sigh. The switches work but both X and Y axes don’t. I think the problem is with the wiring at the main board, it’s...
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Trackball Mod part 8
Trackball Mod part 8, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. All the electronics are now finished. I was going to make the entire ball cage a button by hinging the top back and affixing the...
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Trackball part 9
Trackball part 9, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Finally finished. The thing that slowed me down was whether I should add a wheel, roller, or knob to scroll web pages. I decided...
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Light guide clock part 6
Light guide clock part 6, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. The LEDs arrived in the post yesterday. That’s not white. More like faint blue. Vault-boy seems to like it. Gives it a colder...
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Assemblage
Assemblage, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. I just picked up the front page from The Illustrated London News of Saturday, March 5th, 1881. The 92nd (Gordon) highlanders skirmishing...
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White Elephant pre-sale – 2011
White Elephant pre-sale – 2011, originally uploaded by Black Heart Industries. Ok, I went a little crazy. The main thing I’m excited about is the mechanical handheld games in the center. These are...
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