[HN Gopher] Tank Mouse: Wireless Amiga-inspired optical mouse
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Tank Mouse: Wireless Amiga-inspired optical mouse
Author : doener
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-02-27 11:32 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.kickstarter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.kickstarter.com)
| 999900000999 wrote:
| Set a reminder to order it retail next year, looks like a neat
| thing to have.
|
| I wonder if they'll sell a similar keyboard with it.
| colinhb wrote:
| Very cool. Would love a similar project for old Depraz /
| Digimouse design.
|
| https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/logitech/digimouse.shtml
| floren wrote:
| I've been working on one for a while now. I'll hopefully get a
| writeup posted soon. However, I can't see it ever being
| available for $40 like the Tank Mouse... the 3 switches alone
| cost $12, and the Pixart sensor is $13 unless I manage to find
| a cheaper source.
| drcongo wrote:
| I used to love the Amiga, but the mouse definitely wasn't
| something I loved about it. This brought back memories of me
| smashing mine against the desk in frustration.
| detritus wrote:
| Yeah, likewise - I remember getting a very sore thenar* from
| those hard corners after the sort of stupidly-prolonged gaming
| sessions teenagers are capable of. Then I got a Naksha, which
| was borderline-futuristic.
|
| .
|
| * base of the thumb. I had to look it up, I'm not going to
| pretend I knew that.
| Keyframe wrote:
| Exactly. Amiga was all these nice things, but mouse was
| definitely not one of them!
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| Yup but back then they still used a ball. And that ball was
| always filthy and both the ball and the rest required regular
| cleaning (just as with other old mice).
| drcongo wrote:
| Yeah, that ball was definitely the thing that caused me to
| smash it against the desk. I also have vague memories of the
| almost meditative process of regularly cleaning the wheels.
| Swings and roundabouts.
| bbarnett wrote:
| No kidding. And it tasted terrible too, I hated cleaning it.
| [deleted]
| AmigaNews_net wrote:
| Great project. Amiga forever! ;)
| gwbas1c wrote:
| Is the touchpad going to be a good alternative to a scroll wheel?
| My NVidea Shield remotes use a touchpad for the volume, and it's
| "just okay." Every time I adjust the volume on my TV it feels
| like I'm doing something naughty to the remote.
| layer8 wrote:
| I wouldn't want to be without a notched scroll wheel (for
| discrete scrolling steps), something which can't be replicated
| by a touchpad.
|
| Also, the rocking motion and cogwheel-like touch of the finger
| on a scroll wheel feels nicer and more controlled to me than
| the sliding motion and friction on a touchpad.
| Miraste wrote:
| Nvidia doesn't have a good implementation. They took it off the
| new Shield remotes.
| wildzzz wrote:
| I really like the mice that have a clutch button that lets you
| unlock the wheel for free scrolling. It helps for scrolling
| through long documents. I feel like a touchpad scroll wheel
| doesn't really change the finger motions. Unless, they do
| something clever like where you drag your finger down and hold
| it at the bottom for constant autoscrolling. They could adjust
| the speed of the autoscroll based on how fast your finger
| moved.
| boardwaalk wrote:
| It works well enough on the Magic Mouse. I think it really
| depends on the software: acceleration, touch rejection, etc.
| croon wrote:
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| Awesome; happy it exists; can't imagine using it - we've learned
| so much about ergonomics last couple of decades!
|
| Personal preference as well - I prefer a scrolling wheel with
| fairly distinct, discrete detentes that allow me to precisely
| choose how much scrolling (or assigned function) is happening.
|
| But I'm happy project exists; variety good :)
| gigaflop wrote:
| I've got a band-aid on my middle finger due to my cat
| disagreeing about when to stop touching the belly. I can barely
| feel my laptop keys with it on, but I can still feel enough of
| of the detents in my mouse's scroll wheel!
|
| Do you think some kind of haptic feedback on a touch-scroll
| would make the difference for most people? I still don't think
| so.
| Miraste wrote:
| A lot of Valve's hardware (Steam controller, Steam deck, VR
| controllers) has heavy haptic feedback on its touchpads,
| including when scrolling, and it makes much more of a
| positive difference than I expected it would.
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| My gut instinct was "No", but honestly? I've experienced
| vibrating haptic feedback work WAY better than I thought
| physically possible, so "Maybe"?
|
| Personally I did not enjoy the Logitech mice with
| configurable detentes on the wheel, as they always felt
| wobbly. But I can conceivably envision a configurable
| sensitivity of touchpad to enable discrete scroll and haptic
| feedback that is accurate and useful. Not sure if there's a
| large enough market of course.
| daneel_w wrote:
| The ergonomics of the original Amiga mouse wasn't too bad - not
| great, but not bad either. My gripe with it was how noisy it was,
| and that the buttons often began exhibiting numbness after just a
| few years of use.
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