The folks from UnconventionalHacker posted a fantastic Instructable on how to use the insides of an inexpensive wireless mouse to bring wireless to a classic, corded mouse. You’ll need to have your soldering iron and Dremel handy, but this simple hack could probably take an afternoon. So if you’re ready, willing, and able to give up the creature comforts of a scroll wheel and secondary mouse button to show your retro Mac pride, this how-to is for you. [via Lifehacker]

BY Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist, contributing editor for MAKE magazine, and co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. He's also the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a technology consultancy. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera (a camera which outputs a text description instead of a photo) and The Enough Already (a DIY celebrity-silencing device). Matt's work has been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art, The Rome International Photography Festival, Milan Design Week and has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, and New York Magazine.

4 Responses to Retrofitting a Classic Mouse with Wireless

  1. John Maushammer on said:

    It would have been fun to transplant a magic-mouse sensor to it, too!
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