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Dont know about others but I was too bored with the red light coming out of my optical mouse... It looks so childish :-).... So today I was playing around with the red LED inside the mouse and experimenting with quite a lot of diff colour LED's from my stock... Most of them worked except the yellow and white LED... But surprisingly, an InfraRed LED worked like a charm with invisible beam... Now I've the mouse I wanted, no fancy lights, and an added accuracy... Try it... |
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@spartan2 | 18 June 11 |
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I can't say i have laid awake at night worying if my mouse had a visible spectrum light in it 
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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An IR LED taken out from an old remote control will work... Besides IR LED's are easily available and very cheap...
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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An IR LED taken out from an old remote control will work... Besides IR LED's are easily available and very cheap...
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@plzgvhug | 18 June 11 |
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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@spart... Theoritically, u are right... Coz the red light will not be visible unless u are keen enough to pick up the mouse from the surface.... But practally, most of the time playing around with the mouse, the bright red beam is irritating... Wanted to replace with a blue one, but overjoyed when it worked with IR... Look like a dead mouse...lol
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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Anyways, it depends on personal choice... Thought, someone might be thinking to get rid of that red light like me..... I've changed the red indicators of my CPU, SPEAKER, UPS etc into blue, orange and green... I HATE RED...lol....
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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Anyways, it depends on personal choice... Thought, someone might be thinking to get rid of that red light like me..... I've changed the red indicators of my CPU, SPEAKER, UPS etc into blue, orange and green... I HATE RED...lol....
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@edit.or | 18 June 11 |
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i like the part where it sais 'increased accuracy' ... also,my mouse can work picked off from the surface,in the air,but only slightly away... soooo,i guess replacing the led with infrared will increase this distance limit?
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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IR has longer wavelength than visible red light allowing it to be more powerful than the red LED... And it also ensures better surface readability comparing to the normal red light, resulting more accuracy... But it all dependents on the sensor camera of the mouse... Some cheap mouse sensors are not responsive to IR, coz I found my old logitech not working with IR LED's...
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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dependents=depends
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@krisp | 18 June 11 |
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very interesting, keep up the experiments pw!
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@mok214 | 18 June 11 |
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Erm , how did you go about replacing that little ccd for one that detects infrared light ? And would it not have been easier to shell out money for a laser mouse ? Actually you left too many holes in your story to be believed .
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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@mok... Do think I'm here to tell stories?....... And when had I told u to change the sensor?... I said about changing the Light Emitting Diode, not the sensor... And about your last question, read the topic name first.....
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@jupiter2 | 18 June 11 |
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@mok... Tell me which are the holes I left in my story... I shall write a novel for you....
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@play.con | 18 June 11 |
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He prefers novellas.
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@adeeb222 | 18 June 11 |
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I also dont like red but i think i may break the mouse my mom wont give me a new as i brought a new headphone
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@jupiter2 | 19 June 11 |
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Yes, better not to try if u're not familiar with such things...
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@arjunkr | 19 June 11 |
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Yes thats a good experiment....but did you tried whether it works fine on transparent surface like glass?
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@jupiter2 | 19 June 11 |
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No, it doesn't... The sensor CCD must detect a surface within a short distance, and with glass or mirror IR cannot create a clear reflective surface...
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@arjunkr | 19 June 11 |
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But with coloured light it works...not fully but works due to reflection
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