the completed minty mouse

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evetsggod says:

pretty sweet. i saw a guy selling mp3 players made from ak-47 magazines- you should try that next.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

epmd says:

great job. that's too funny.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Naomi Ibuki says:

Wow...Really nice!
This is also good as "recycle item"! Can of mint also seems ecological.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

dcJohn says:

that's very, very cool DIY tech art you've made there.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

thanks for the kind words. it's a mildly practical mouse. it works fine but as you can see the wheel sticks up pretty far.

novelty was the motivating factor behind behind this project... that and learning how to use a dremel.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Andrew Stewart says:

Great job, I have been thinking about doing some mice mods like these latley, and putting those el cheapo $10 mini mice into unusual items, Altho I didn't think of the Altoids tin, I am thinking of doing an old Apple Macintosh Performa mouse up :-)
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Gail at Large says:

AviatorDave loves his Altoids, he'd love this!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

AviatorDave [admin'ed by gailatlarge] says:

Curiously clever! Like it!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

drewish says:

dewy: that's sounds really cool. please drop me a messge when you get some photos up.
avaitor: "Curiously clever!" - i am so gonna rip that off ;)
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

halloween jack says:

this is hilarious. I saw a guy with an altoid tin battery pack for his ipod.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

wassanova says:

this is simply the most incredible thing i've ever seen.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

cyberscape2 says:

sweet stuff, dude.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Fillllll says:

noiiice!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

BrianEwart says:

If only someone could make a mint tin with mints in it.. then I could die a happy man.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

drewish says:

that's not a half bad idea brian. for a tin full of mints i'd pay upward of... say... two dollars!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Jpantoga says:

This is great, Im actually in the process of building a wireless one right now. I love building stuff out of altoids tins. I did the ipod battery, which was great, and I also decided to build a harmonica into one of the atoid-gum tins. Thanks for the ideas!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

evetsggod says:

wait, 14910 views? holy crap!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

Fillllll says:

the high number of views is due to this article written at digg.com about this.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

drewish says:

it was on the make blog for a while. i heard some magazine did a version of it.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

sandrino says:

Cool but can you also make it dispense mints? :)
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Ryan McGregor says:

The magazine was Mobile (www.mobilemagazine.com). It was the August 2005 issue!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

smelly3 says:

very nice
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

downbeat says:

That's sweet
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

m6usa says:

Check this out, I made a similar one called JBM, Jelly Belly Mouse:
www.flickr.com/photos/28218241@N00/
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

jack_bartow says:

What did u use to cut the lines out?
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

drewish says:

jack_bartow, I used a dremel tool
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

dylanofwomen says:

what tip of end did u use on the end... i have been using a circle cutting piece, but it can only cut straight lines...

DylanOfWomen@yahoo.com
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

drewish says:

dylanofwomen, i used the disc cutting tool but i was just careful to touch the edge, pick it up, move it, touch it, rinse repeat. if you look at the full sized image you can see the scratches where it didn't cut a perfect circle.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

drayde says:

Great project!
I build a programmer for AVR microcontrollers in one of these Altoids tins. Wonder for how many electronics projects it was used.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

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