Re: [Makers] making a push button for pc

Glen Beestone

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Mar 31, 2015, 3:37:28 AM3/31/15

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You can buy a USB mouse for a couple of quid. Just hack the guts out of it, solder a button in parallel with the existing left button micro switch and lead it off to the chassis of your booth.

G

On 31 Mar 2015 08:32, Dwain Cox <dwain...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi guys i have a photobooth that i hire out and made it from scratch it has a touch screen that was working great but seems to stop working after awhile so i was wondering is there a way that i could put a push button that would trigger a left click on the mouse so if the screen fails i have a back up instead of using the mouse (which can be a pain sometimes)

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Greg Fenton

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Mar 31, 2015, 3:53:45 PM3/31/15

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Check the pound shop, they have USB meeces for a pound(!)

Greg

Alistair MacDonald

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Mar 31, 2015, 4:08:18 PM3/31/15

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Oddly I did exactly this for a really old project. A quick hack that
worked really well. You can use a micro-controller, a V-USB library
and a few components, but the mouse hack is just better.

Alistair

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