Input

I've been fiddling around with some designs using buttons and an old usb mouse to record the punches.

Essentially, by removing the top of the mouse we gain access to the three buttons, left middle (scroll wheel) and right. We re-wire the mouse, adding lengths of wire in-between the button and the mount, allowing us to position the buttons however we want.

The mouse is connected to a computer, which is running a simple program that records mouse clicks. If a left click is registered in the target area (the application window) a counter will increase. This is the same for the other two buttons, except each has its own counter.

If we remove the trackball/optical tracker from the mouse, we don't have to worry about the impacts moving the cursor out of the window, and we've gained a simple way to track hits on a variety of targets.

Hugh