And regen breaking causes enough friction to break a car.
One can't make energy from nothing, if you pull energy from mouse movement, it'll be hard to move the mouse in some way and incur resistance and that extra energy it costs is used to charge the mouse.
What if you made a ball mouse but with 4 balls like wheels? How much energy could you get without making it much harder to push? It’s possible to take energy and still use the balls to measure the movement, right? Or did they just use light?
I already thought of this. A ball mouse that charges itself using friction from the ball. The downside - it's a ball mouse.
Optical mouse probably needs a bit more energy than kinetic charging can reliably provide. Nobody wants to have their mouse die from moving it too gently then have to shake it to get it charged.
>you're not gonna move it enough to generate energy to recharge it.
Fully, no. Enough to prolong the period of use without charging? Yes.
>stops working >shake it a little >starts working again
way better than having to desperately dig for a working battery that's left out of the packs you stole from work 3 years ago
That's not how that works though. I mean maybe if you wanked with it strapped to your wrist sure but you just don't move a mouse enough during normal use
What if you reverted to a ball mouse but put it upside down and moved the ball directly instead of the rest of the mouse? The drag parts would be anchored anyway and a non-issue.
these things are sick, and way better for precision moves than regular mice. The more parallel-to-surface rotational movement you put into the spin of the ball, the more precise / slower the movement of pointer. In terms of regular mice, this precision of movement is completely dependent on fine-motor control, but with a track-ball, work can be offloaded into a null-axis.
what if we eliminated the ball and mouse all together and just had some kind of pad that was sensitive to the touch of our finger. all we would have to do is move our finger across this pad like surface imparting a physical gesture onto it.
i can't think of a good name for it right now but i think it has potential. maybe the finger slapper or the shitfrick9000
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you lose an axis of movement with trackpads -- ye chucklefrick
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i'm not talking about a trackpad obviously
OBVIOUSLY.
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The trackpad is a considerable downgrade from the trackball. Its only redeeming factors are height and multitouch capabilities. When given both I'll happily use both (the trackbad (that was a drunken typo somehow but it works so it stays) only for gestures) but if I had to choose I'd take the trackball every time.
Even then I'd take the trackball. I love TrackPoints, wouldn't buy a laptop without one. But my laptop bag always has a trackball (generally two, one doubles as a mouse), because the TrackPoint just doesn't cut it.
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Joy stick is the superior control method. I conduct quarterly meetings at a Fortune500 company with a 1997 Sidewinder and it all the b***hes love it. Everyone claps.
Stop
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no u
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The trackpad is a considerable downgrade from the trackball. Its only redeeming factors are height and multitouch capabilities. When given both I'll happily use both (the trackbad (that was a drunken typo somehow but it works so it stays) only for gestures) but if I had to choose I'd take the trackball every time.
Now restrict that to the movement of the mouse. Let's say you move your 100g mouse at 1m/s on average (you don't). That's 5x the energy of a fricking whisper
Joy stick is the superior control method. I conduct quarterly meetings at a Fortune500 company with a 1997 Sidewinder and it all the b***hes love it. Everyone claps.
friction
that could easily be overcome with a series of low-resistance ball bearings and the proper stabilizers to impart minimal friction on the device
sort of like regen braking on hybrid cars
Id LOVE to use a mouse that weights half a kilo...
And regen breaking causes enough friction to break a car.
One can't make energy from nothing, if you pull energy from mouse movement, it'll be hard to move the mouse in some way and incur resistance and that extra energy it costs is used to charge the mouse.
oh no not milliwatts of energy, my poor hands
because it would be cost prohibitive
Meanwhile I can get a kinetic watch for less than a gaymen mouse
I use a balltop mouse
Thanks for blogging!
What if you made a ball mouse but with 4 balls like wheels? How much energy could you get without making it much harder to push? It’s possible to take energy and still use the balls to measure the movement, right? Or did they just use light?
The thing is it would be hard to push. Impedance is a b***h.
what if we made a mouse that wasn't a mouse
Just use a wired mouse you fricking weirdo
I already thought of this. A ball mouse that charges itself using friction from the ball. The downside - it's a ball mouse.
Optical mouse probably needs a bit more energy than kinetic charging can reliably provide. Nobody wants to have their mouse die from moving it too gently then have to shake it to get it charged.
better thought:
Why did wireless electricity get abandoned?
AC won
Unless you grab your mice while you're fapping, you're not gonna move it enough to generate energy to recharge it.
>you're not gonna move it enough to generate energy to recharge it.
Fully, no. Enough to prolong the period of use without charging? Yes.
>stops working
>shake it a little
>starts working again
way better than having to desperately dig for a working battery that's left out of the packs you stole from work 3 years ago
That's not how that works though. I mean maybe if you wanked with it strapped to your wrist sure but you just don't move a mouse enough during normal use
>weight on a spring with a coil
solved it
my work mouse lasts 2-3 months on an AAA, i bet this would work
What if you could just keep your mouse directly connected to your computer and power it that way?
That would add a wire which would add drag and cost, nobody will go for that
What if you reverted to a ball mouse but put it upside down and moved the ball directly instead of the rest of the mouse? The drag parts would be anchored anyway and a non-issue.
these things are sick, and way better for precision moves than regular mice. The more parallel-to-surface rotational movement you put into the spin of the ball, the more precise / slower the movement of pointer. In terms of regular mice, this precision of movement is completely dependent on fine-motor control, but with a track-ball, work can be offloaded into a null-axis.
what if we eliminated the ball and mouse all together and just had some kind of pad that was sensitive to the touch of our finger. all we would have to do is move our finger across this pad like surface imparting a physical gesture onto it.
i can't think of a good name for it right now but i think it has potential. maybe the finger slapper or the shitfrick9000
you lose an axis of movement with trackpads -- ye chucklefrick
i'm not talking about a trackpad obviously
OBVIOUSLY.
Even then I'd take the trackball. I love TrackPoints, wouldn't buy a laptop without one. But my laptop bag always has a trackball (generally two, one doubles as a mouse), because the TrackPoint just doesn't cut it.
Stop
no u
The trackpad is a considerable downgrade from the trackball. Its only redeeming factors are height and multitouch capabilities. When given both I'll happily use both (the trackbad (that was a drunken typo somehow but it works so it stays) only for gestures) but if I had to choose I'd take the trackball every time.
Do you really think moving your hand can generate energy of a single AA battery?
you put out about 100W
an AA is 2 amp hours and 1.5V = 10kJ
you could charge an AA in about 100 seconds
Now restrict that to the movement of the mouse. Let's say you move your 100g mouse at 1m/s on average (you don't). That's 5x the energy of a fricking whisper
Just shake harder it's 100 seconds every few months
Piezo electric charging mouse would be neat. Would work with all the spastic fps gamers
Joy stick is the superior control method. I conduct quarterly meetings at a Fortune500 company with a 1997 Sidewinder and it all the b***hes love it. Everyone claps.