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Mouse feet: Technology support low cost

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

This foot mouse to be constructed from a simple adaptation of optical mouse.

Persons who, due to a physical or sensory impairment, can not handle standard peripherals of a computer, often rely on assistive devices called (product support).

The products support digital act as ramps, bridging between the user and the computer, thus facilitating, for example, write without the traditional keyboard, or move the mouse pointer without operating a regular basis.

These adaptations can be purchased at specialty shops and their prices are extremely varied, but certain situations can also be constructed as a low cost home.

The adaptation was designed by Sergio Ruau, who was based on an idea for using the mouse by Pablo Fernández (Paul lives in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and uses an optical mouse placed in the neck with her head movements).

Antonio Sacco edited and wrote some parts of this document, and participated in the creation of descriptive video adaptation. Both the video as this document can be downloaded from the website www.antoniosacco.net


With some practice and the movement of one foot, this device allows full control mouse functions of a computer, including main and secondary click, drag and scrolling.

The adaptation was made from a conventional mouse, which must be disarmed, a wooden box, some solder, and a few buttons.

It is possible, for example, write through an onscreen keyboard with any regular word processor, and function freely within applications that require the use of a mouse.

For certain applications, like browsers, often very useful wheel "scroll", which is also part of the adaptation.

You can select text by dragging a button and context menus to display another button for secondary click.

Two connectors on the sides allow the optional use of buttons, which can also be exploited to make the clicks.



Both the video and documentation are distributed freely licensed under Creative Commons by-nc-sa "

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