Poor Man’s DIY scratchpad

December 25, 2007

Written by: Tony Nunn at 12:30 pm. Filed under Cool Gadgets, DIY Hacks

How to make your own scratchpad out of nothing but a pizza box and an optical mouse. I’m sure everyone has a spare optical mouse–and if you’re anything like me–an abundance of pizza boxes lying around. Check out a video of it in action.
I love to see these sorts of ultra low budget hacks. Keep up the good work out there.

For some more cool stuff, check out the dBond website

P.S Merry Christmas!

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3 Responses to “Poor Man’s DIY scratchpad”

marks256 Says:
December 25th, 2007
Now that would make a really geeky project if someone were to hook one of them up to a microcontroller (or somethings similar), and made it totally stand-alone!
Rawclaw Says:
December 26th, 2007
hahaha.
We did this 1 year ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1he9bPPNMU

And paccer made an improved version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIvSgvE3L_Y&watch_response

Keep up the DIY projects
Neil Says:
December 28th, 2007
I remember seeing something like this awhile back. I thought they used a ball mouse though.