MouseMod Project

Surfing on http://metku.net I found an interesting tutorial on how to mode one old mouse by installing an LED on it. I had this old mouse hanging around so I decided to try it myself.

First opening the mouse, I could see one logic circuit, so you can try the pins until you find one that gives +5volts and ground.

Then I used a resistor to lower the voltage for the LED. It’s not a strong LED…yet

I made the hole in the mouse, not using much creativity.

This is the result after soldering the LED with a resistor to the logic circuit.

That’s about it, but as you can see, it has a weak light.

After some time, I decided to paint my mouse black, which looks much better, and changed the LED to something stronger.

That’s after soldering the new yellow strong LED. It has a nice effect now!!!

Done! I put one butter-paper covering inside the mouse, so it would look better, and it wouldn’t show the LED itself.

What do you think?

If you want to see more pictures, just go to my flickr set.