Another mouse fan mod

Heres a ton of pics with some captions. so far the mouse works great,i just need to make an intake because i didn't consider its trying to suck air out of closed space. easy fix though. so heres the pics/worklog

Stock MX510 Logitech 8 Button mouse.

Logitech mouse with holes in it :D

I held the dremel in a vice so i could get a very fine line for the circular part. It actually turned out well because there was round logitech logo, so i removed that and used the indentation it was in as a template basically.

The fan fits perfectly in the hole in the mouse after trimming the fan down to size and enlarging the hole in the mouses inner shell just a little bit.

Now that the dremel work is done, time for a cold one. They brew this across town, good stuff.

Now to the electronics. the mouse is powered by a usb port. as most of us know, usb means 5 volt power running straight to the device. problem was that they had extremely fine solder points where the line met the board. so i carefully soldered 2 leads on the back side where the 5volt line and ground were, and it was very successful.

Perfect, 5 volts running straight through. time to hook up the fan. ghetto rigged first to make sure i didn't need to slow it down or anything.

then of course, the parts before final assembly

Put it all together and i got me a nice cool hand for cappin' those CTs ;)

nice, thatd b pretty useful for me and my bro, after 6 hrs of bf2142 you culd sell all the swaet on my hand

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Originally Posted by azminisk8r

6 hrs of bf2142

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wooo! Cheers to that!! BF2142 is the best! i culd use one of those mouse mods. Aka, aim for a tutorial pl0x?

Dang thats a tiny fan!

Cool little mod you got there. How well does it work?

it works rather well, though i have to unplug my mouse when i decide to shut down my PC. i need to add intake vents somewhere so it blows more air. now that is something i never though i would need on my mouse.

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Originally Posted by AKA_RA

though i have to unplug my mouse when i decide to shut down my PC.

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LMFAO,sorry man I had to laugh. lol you wake up in the middle of the night and the fans making a twirling noise lmao


Yeah you should soder a switch in the fan cable and hot glue it on the side of the mouse or somthing?

im gonna look at radio shack for something small and flat. kinda like what you see on the back of a PSU to change from 110 to 220

why dont you just rip it off a old psu then?

theyre actually quite large, i wouldnt be able to fit it in there i dont think. i have a few laying around, so i might mess with it later.

lolz great job on the mod..... but i got one question....... whats the point on having air being pushed into one central area..... they have fan mouses that have a venting setup so it cools ur entire hand heh
not tryin to knock ya bud awsome job... just questioning.....
and an intake port would prolly help it alot good job :)