Devember - Relearning to program using Python

[Even747]

Day 24

Devember 2018

TBH I skipped today, but I’m still working on this. I might read some documentation later today if I’m not too busy eating all the gift chocolates.

Well I admitted in Devember thread I slacked today, but I’m actually now browsing some python documenttion. I won’t be able to spend one hour for this today, though.

I did do someting unrelated to this project though:

Recoating my old SteelSeries Sensei mouse

Well here goes. I know I should be working on with my devember challenge, so for that reason I’ll show what I’m working on instead. https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-lounge-2018-11-november-npclivesmatter-edition/134196/3464?u=even747 @ArgGrr suggested a while back I could try to recoat my old SteelSeries Sensei RAW mouse, and now since I’m spending time at my parents place where I have my father’s workshop available, I thought I give this a good old college try. For whatever reason the spell checking is not working on my Firefox atm, so please excuse all the typos and grammar errors in this log. Please note that: I don’t guarantee this mouse will be operational after I’m done with it. This is mostly just a test. I’m not 100% sure what I’m doing, but I’ll do it anyway. I didn’t take any pictures how did the mouse look like before I started to disassemble it. Here’s a picture from google how did it look like when it was new: [kuva] Mouse didn’t actually look bad, the coating looked pretty simmilar to that picture. But oh boy did the coating feel disgusting and sticky. So here I will try to fix this and recoat the mouse. At first I was planned to use some vinyl, but since my father has some spray paints here I might try to repaint the mouse. I know the natural oils from skin will eventually degrade the paint but I’m not too woried. I can always dismantle and repaint mouse again, or try someting else. [IMG_1479] First I removed the mouse pads, or what ever they are called. Under them I found four small screws and once those were removed I was able to open the mouse. Side buttons etc. are attached to separate PCB and it was connected with small ribbon cable, that was not soldered to main PCB. [IMG_1487] More screws and some platic clips held the top of the mouse together, and this is what it looks like when disassembled. I did clean the mouse wheel sonow it should scroll freely. There was a lot of dust and other gunk in scroll wheel asse…

And last but not least: MERRY CHRISTMAS!