Small piece of perf board Potentiometer
Diode Cellphone vibrator motor
Inside the completed rumble mouse. Note the diode that is soldered in parallel with the motor.
Have you ever been playing your favorite first- I found a cheap suitable mouse from a local person shooter with someone’s rumble controller surplus store. It had a scroll wheel that I liked, and thought, “I would love to have that capability and was large enough to fit the extra compo-while playing on my computer”? A friend of mine nents inside. For the rumble motor, I wanted had a spare rumble pack lying around, so he something small, and my fiancée suggested decided to stick it in a mouse. This inspired me to that I use a cellphone vibrator. I had several old create my own version. cellphones lying around, so I cut one open and
I determined that my rumble mouse should located its small motor near the top left corner, meet certain specifications. I wanted it to be fully which looks like a watch battery with two wires enclosed, with no parts sticking out of the case. It coming out of it. should be an optical mouse, rather than a roller- Naturally, different phones are different. ball one, connected and powered by USB. In play, Nokias I’ve cracked open use small cylindrical the mouse would give a satisfying rumble-recoil motors, not as flat, and in an old flip phone I when you click the left button — the trigger in took apart, the motor was in the same piece most FPS (first-person shooter) games. as the speaker, close to the LCD screen.
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