Add a rapid-fire button to your mouse using a 555 timer

Step 5 Reap the benefits!

Ah, the orginal purpose of this mod:

Comments

[AustralLord]

is there a way to make it shoot faster?

[mothflavour2]

Try replacing the R1 and C1 with lower values. lowering the value of R1 from 10K ohms to 5K ohms (or more practically 4.7K ohms) will double the speed. You can do the similarly by lowering C1 from 4.7uF to, say, 2.2uF.

[jimday666]

sure, but specific games have limitations too. have to experiment.

[oliverkrystal]

Good place for a potentiometer, don't you think?

[trunkmonkey4345]

I just finished this mod and my mouse lost power on the optical light and cant move it anymore but the mouse can click fast any ideas or does anyone know whats going on

[oliverkrystal]

check for a traces that has got extra solder connecting them. You probably soldered one thing to another

[foogoo mei]

It been a while since I have read a schematic, so where the line intersect are connections? Dots at intersections mean connections too? Usually little humps indicate lines crossing that do not connect. So R2 goes to V+ of the 555 and 5 volt on the usb, and so on?

[merseyless]

if theres no splodge theres no connection.

[mothflavour2]

when a line makes a 3-way junction, assume it's connected. If it's a four-way junction, assume it's not unless it has a dot.

[asturias74]

uhmmm......... I do the same with my finger.........

[rujoesmith]

does this work with all computer games? because i was looking at a mod like this for an xbox controller, but you needed to reprogram the microcontroller for each game.

[mothflavour2]

this works in everything because the circuit tricks the mouse into thinking its left mouse button is being clicked 15 times per second. It's not a microcontroller doing the work, it's a dirt cheap chip available pretty much everywhere.