You need CAD software, a CNC milling machine (you can rent time on it), a lot of spare time and even more persistence.
I don’t like plastic. Instead, I like nature and that’s why I have developed and now produce wooden mice. They are beautiful, pleasant to hold in your hand and make your hand less sweaty.
I managed to obtain a decent result only after five years of work in my spare time. For already more than 4 years I have been using mice of my own production. During this time, I had to develop new electronic stuff twice to keep up with the times and not lag behind progress.
I don’t like plastic. Instead, I like nature and that’s why I have developed and now produce wooden mice. They are beautiful, pleasant to hold in your hand and make your hand less sweaty.
I managed to obtain a decent result only after five years of work in my spare time. For already more than 4 years I have been using mice of my own production. During this time, I had to develop new electronic stuff twice to keep up with the times and not lag behind progress.
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Everything started with handicrafts. In these models, I used stuff from conventional mice.
These experiments resulted in the understanding of the impossibility of making a normally working mouse using manual technologies. It also became obvious that I would have to develop my own electronics to suit my housing without trying to adapt it to the borrowed stuff. The maximum that one can produce with handicraft technologies is a single capricious specimen that will be worse than a conventional plastic mouse. This did not satisfy me and I got down to serious work.
These experiments resulted in the understanding of the impossibility of making a normally working mouse using manual technologies. It also became obvious that I would have to develop my own electronics to suit my housing without trying to adapt it to the borrowed stuff. The maximum that one can produce with handicraft technologies is a single capricious specimen that will be worse than a conventional plastic mouse. This did not satisfy me and I got down to serious work.
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I want to know a step by step process so I have an idea and would know that it is possible to create my own parts.
Is your CNC Milling machine a 3 axis machine? Or is it a 4 or 5 axis? Does it have a rotational axis?
The problem is not in the CNC machine
Problem in the design. Very hard to make everything work.
I do not have this video
I wanted to know because I want to be able to make complex parts with my own CNC machine, not the mouse, but something else.
Thanks.
You can ask a specific question?
How did you manage to cut the bottom part of the object accurately? Did you flip it around? How did you align it if so?
Have you watched the video with milling process?
See picture, please.
they are up for sale and since i would like one especially
for the volume function, which is very clever and i found his site
but blimey... prices range from 800 to 1200 Holy S#!t
i would pay a maximum 50 euro wired,
i guess but no more than that,
80 if wireless but that's it..
but this is not an instructable.
I was invited to this resource. My project is the industrial production and its hard to do in the Instructable format .
But looking at it, the other people may be a similar idea. I wrote my story to everyone could see the potential problems.
Your mice rock.
I need to make a cordless one with copper buttons, you have inspired me.
I will post a pic once it is complete.
Sorry, do I not thank everyone personally. I dont want to increase the number of posts without useful information.
Do you sell them, like, on eBay or anything? They look like a major money maker!
HEY! My hands are totally too huge for most mice, can you adjust the size of the mouse and make one that is 35% wider and longer?
Did you have to play with the wall thickness of the wood or are they close in thickness to their plastic cousins?
But, price really is a lot more in this case.
Truly BEAUTIFUL!
I am inspired enough to want to replace the case on my Microsoft Wireless Mouse in a lovingly crafted piece of OAK. Well, I already have a 4X8 CNC machine just waiting for projects....
Have you got any tips?
Thanks for showing us your work
I was given the project much more difficult than I thought originally.