Mouse Mouse!

Step 9 Completed Mouse Mouse!

Now plug your Mouse Mouse into your computer and test things out! Ours worked perfectly- I was really quite surprised by how well it turned out.

The buttons and scroll wheel worked beautifully, as did the cursor movement after we trimmed the belly skin away from the optical sensor. You may need to trim a bit of fur around the edges of the scroll wheel or optical sensor, but otherwise it's a wrap!

Keep in mind that this mouse isn't meant for heavy-duty computer use- it's a functional work of art, and should be saved for stylish installations and special occasions. Using the Mouse Mouse on a daily basis will likely cause shedding (the mouse) and RSI (your wrists), so we really can't advise it.

Of course, it's Really Damn Cool- every nerd who's any nerd should have one!

Comments

[tfordham1]

This seems legit. As unfortunate as it is that the comments got the way they did I really enjoyed the wordplay and the clean and professional looking manner this instructable was done in. It was very thorough and clear. Which is how instructables should be judged on. Not whether or not you think animal skins are ethical.

[canida]

Thank you!

[ddian1]

yuck ..

[dyly]

does it smell bad yet?

[csykes3]

What stops it rotting???

[Schpool]

That is out standing! I love it. both the artistry and the functionality. good job!

[sweetkits]

this is very very cruel. mice are for entertainment and joy,not little computer items!

[vishalapr]

I completely agree

[Drasa]

Umm, mice are NOT for entertainment. They spread diseases and can be annoying. Along with rats. ^^

[Neurotik2]

I agree this is very sick I thought it was a fake mouse\

[VioletRimbaud]

 actually no I will go even further and say that animals are for none of the above animals are living things. I'm no vegetarian so maybe I shouldn't say anything but this is defacing a corpse. It's kind of gross and reminds me of this boy I once knew who would torture and kill cats. He was seriously messed up from his childhood so what's your excuse?

[owlart101]

Though i don't like it, I need to say that your instructable was well put together and you did a good job.

[scalarcharge]

a desire to create and um.... a love of physical puns?  and again, it was just a mouse.

[VioletRimbaud]

 I dunno I can be really harsh somedays but looking back I find taxedermy incredibly interesting... hmm I'm sorry for my harsh comment. it is sort of cute :), but I still enjoy jackalopes and pigeons dressed as people a bit more :P. (good job btw, I even thought that when I first saw it)

[Cammer]

Mice are for entertainment?  I don't think that mice are interested in providing entertainment and joy for you or anyone else.  I am not a mouse but I think that I can speak for all of mousedom when I say that mice are only really interested in finding food and making little baby mice.  What kind of sick freak are you?  LOL

Besides, isn't using a mouse skin in this creative way a source of great entertainment for some people?  I know that I am highly entertained at the moment.

[AlfredoSG]

 I quote "I don't think that mice are interest in providing entertainment and joy for you or anyone else."

Well listen here sir,

my mouse tap dances. And not only that, he does some pretty darn good stand up in front of my friends.

So next time think before you make a comment like that.

[mneufeld623]

mice are snake food anyway...this is brilliantly creative

[w0ot!]

If this isn't entertainment, I don't know what is!

[torik]

It's already dead! Isn't it cruel to feed your lovely little snake with those frozen furry snacks? It's more cruel to let him die from starving

[BrokeTheInterweb]

This is a very intriguing idea. It would certainly be a way to recycle and use the dead mice my cat brings me, instead of letting them rot in a landfill. I bet the native americans would be rather fond of this instructable, heh.

[dortuh]

This is SO terrible, disgusting, and effed up. I can't believe someone could lack so much sanity to be able to mutilate a corpse for "art," which is really just twisted and bordering psychopathic. This really disturbs me.

[animation303]

you didn't have to look at it.

[Rotten194]

Do you wear leather? That's art (well, technically... ugh leather boots. Anyways.) That's, ahem, "art" made from the skin of a dead animal. Do you eat meat? Cooking (especially at a fancy restaurant, not necessarily though, TV dinner is art in it's own right I guess)  made from a dead animal that spent it's entire life standing in it's own crap, with it's head between two bars, eating chemicals and hormones before being slaughtered, hug up on a hook, gutted, cut into pieces, fire blasted and wrapped. That's a lot more mutilated than this mouse. And we don't eat this mouse.

[dortuh]

Nice try... I don't eat meat or wear leather. It all disgusts me.

[thepelton]

FYI if you know anyone who is diabetic, they use insulin from cattle pancreases. If they didn't, they could die. If you want to be a vegetarian, fine, but don't tell us we're killers. I need some naugahide. Anyone know where I can find an unsuspecting nauga?

[zigzagchris]

Im vegeterian but im not offended by this. I dont like the taste of meat. Its a waste of resource and unhealthy. Im fine if their killed painlessly but not brutaly such as McDonald does often (boiling live chiken)

[NInja99]

Its called Taxidermy to make art out of living corpses and no its not psychopathic. why are you reading this ible anyways?

[zombiefire]

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[wikipedo]

 I can't wait till the next time my cat brings me a mouse.
Would it be that bad if their was a little bit of neck missing from the wetware mouse?

[Andershegelund]

This is nasty and wrong. I know it's already dead, but didn't you feel just a bit uncomfortable when doing this? also I think it's totally psychopathic to make stuff like this.

Why not just just take the corpse of a dog and wrap it around your TV screen to make it look cool?

Or you could take the corpse of a cat and wrap it around a guitar to make it soft and nice?

Sick.

[allthegoodnamesaretaken]

 I like the cat idea...

[octopuscabbage]

Your ideas are good. Maybe i should make a coat out of mink. Wait. What's that you say? Their considered high class? Weird.

[octopuscabbage]

Wait Wait, I have a new idea. A couch made out of cowskin. OH and maybe coats too!....wait...Thats been invented too....

[Andershegelund]

Thats not the freaking same as killing a mouse, taking it's skin and throwing the rest away, and then wrap the outer body around a freaking computer mouse. that's just sick.

[typenamehere_____]

Actually, it's almost exactly the same, just not removed of hair or baked in the sun... So, yes it is sick, but I assume that you often eat some form of meat. That form is most likely cow or chicken. Cows are stuck in a single spot for their entire life before being decapitated and striped of flesh. Chickens are often machine "processed" basically meaning they were attached to a hanging claw, dipped electrified water to instantly kill them, and ripped apart with machines that are hazardously made and place, and have managed to remove human worker limbs fairly easily. Unfortunately for some of the chickens, they are too smart. Before they are dipped in the electrified water, they see the other chickens being dunked, and decide to try to lean upwards. They avoid the water and get mechanically separated while alive. Mmmmm... those Slim-Jims are so good! Sorry if I have disturbed you too much...

[Andershegelund]

you're sad.

[typenamehere_____]

? sad or saddening?

[Andershegelund]

Please take your time to read my comment again. - If you for some reason did not understand it, dead "typenamehere____".

[typenamehere_____]

? I agreed to you saying that it was sick, but I was pointing out that ocapuscabbage's comment was the same as your's, just in a different context and more socially accepted (by which I mean ignored).  I then pointed out other socially accepted immoralities that I think are quite disturbing.  That being said, I really don't understand why you would say that I'm sad- I follow many of the same points you make in your argument.  If it is because I said Slim-Jims where good (although they do taste alright), you need to learn what sarcasm is.

[Andershegelund]

Then please make your points more clear, cause sarcasm can be very hard to understand in a comment on the Internet