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Yeah, I managed.

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Okay, so we are speaking about the famous mouse,

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my computer mice, sorry.

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Of the past and what to do if you can handle one today,

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how can you plug it into your contemporary computer?

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That's a list of some mice we explored for this talk,

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not only not all of them are on the slides,

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but you will have a link in the end.

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And first through mice, which we couldn't try ourselves,

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well, actually 1952 was the year of the birth of a trade ball.

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It was developed for other systems in the Royal Canadian area,

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and quickly ruined for compatibility reasons.

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So, we have no working exemplars,

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and we don't know how to connect it to this story.

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But all other devices are much better.

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You see this, 1966, the first Douglas-Angelbot mouse,

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actually it's not, it's a replica from the California Computer History Museum,

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but still, this one is connectable, I'll tell later.

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Technically, it's really simple, it has two views.

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One wheel is rotating, the other wheel is sliding,

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because it's placed orthogonal.

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So, when you move it left to right, one wheel rotates,

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forward backward and other wheel rotates,

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wheels are connected to potential emitters,

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and so the voltage is changed on the team of the jack of this mouse.

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So, it's technically it's an analog joystick.

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I'll speak later how to try it.

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If you have, probably you don't, but.

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1966 is another device, which is supposed to be the first mouse,

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at least it has ball.

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It's more mouseish, I would say,

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and it's telephone can roll to build device.

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You may be surprised, but this one has open source connector.

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Probably there are about 10 roll coogles in the world,

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but one of them belongs to a urgen Miller,

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was the reason to create a tiny,

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microcontroller based dongle to connected to USB.

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So, if you are from this other nine people,

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go to his website.

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By the way, it's a parallel mouse.

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It's each encoder, mechanical encoder,

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produced for a bit gray quad,

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and the ball is actually both a pinpoint,

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hard and a little bit.

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Well, all quad, all parallel mice,

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we will speak about a quad-rature devices.

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Just they produce two bits gray quad, not for it.

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You see XA and XB of one cardinate,

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YA and YB for another cardinate.

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So, they are related devices, they produce Delta X and Delta Y.

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Which is much better than Android smart mouse,

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which is absolute positioning device,

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and if you reach the end of your table,

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or if you reach the end of the rotation angle of potential meters,

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you should roll it back,

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which is a definite uncomfortable,

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and moving to popular mice,

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which you can find yourself.

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The first, actually, available to purchase,

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was zeroed out of mouse.

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It was developed by two engineers,

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Bill English, the one who helped Andrew Bartow,

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create his own first mouse, and Jay Kohle.

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They are rather funny devices.

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By the way, you see here the contact encoder,

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and yeah.

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You see here contact encoder with few wires,

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connecting to this, sorry,

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to this thin pound-looking disk,

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which rotates, and these wires have different lengths,

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and they produce gray quad.

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The mouse was terrible,

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because well, all dirt and other things from the ball,

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where easily sitting on this disk,

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and no contact,

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but from the connecting point of view,

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it's a typical quadrature mouse,

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and you can easily connect it with Arduino.

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I personally prefer the Amiga converter,

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with just different pin-out,

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but a lot of other converters do exist.

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And because those mice were terrible,

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zero-scrated, first optical mice mouse in 1981,

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which had matrix of four-by-four optical sensors,

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which was twice cheaper than the original one,

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a mechanical mouse was $400 in 1970s,

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by a car or by a mouse.

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You can choose.

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Well, you know, four-by-four matrix is not very big

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from...

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So, it needed some pattern on the mouse pad.

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Actually, mouse pad was paper.

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Great, provided by zerox,

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or just for the quartied by end users.

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This is plain quadrature device,

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nothing to speak about about connecting it,

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connected with the same.

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In 1982, the first optical mouse

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from Logitech, or you may say the bra,

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the bra, watchmaker company,

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and two United States entrepreneurs

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who later became Logitech.

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They used live beam instead of these contact wires,

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so dirt was not such a big pain.

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And parallel versions are easy quadrature mouse.

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Once again, but they have dedicated converter,

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just for this mice.

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Not bad converter, by the way.

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A serial one, well,

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actually are supposed to exist,

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but I never saw them.

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But zero interfaces little bit different as you may get.

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You have only one wire,

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and several bits of a package

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represent the same delta x and delta y.

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And the first serial mouse, you can probably try,

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is one of the mouse systems.

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As simplified optical mouse,

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created by a student, Stephen Kursch,

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in California, who used reflective mouse pad

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with longitudinal and transverse lines,

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visible in different light.

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One in optical range,

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and another one is in infrared range.

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So it demanded special mouse pad,

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but it was even cheaper.

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It didn't use this for by four matrix by zerox.

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The next one is absolutely not interesting

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from connection point of view.

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It's Apple Lisa Mouse.

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Everyone likes it.

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Everyone knows about it.

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It even has its dedicated converter,

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but it's still a prototype device, nothing to speak.

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This one is really interesting.

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It's a first major order from Logitech,

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mouse, they created for QLED Packard.

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It's interesting because it's, you know,

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a Daisy chain bus, HP Hill,

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which is, which,

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recently, was included

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into the firmware of open source keyboards.

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The converter for these QLED Packard keyboards

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and mice was included.

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So you may remember these ergonomics

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is at split keyboards.

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The firmware, what QMK and TMK

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has also, from where,

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a call to run these mouse.

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Plug it to USB via some Arduino scene, I think.

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It frankly speaking, it's a huge advantage

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because the protocol is rather complicated.

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The same here, mice went back

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to analog joystick simulation.

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For strong reason,

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just home computers had no communication port,

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had no mouse port, but they had port for a joystick.

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And so you have a few funny devices.

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Some of them have gears.

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Some of them have something like bell drives

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and look completely distinct on location side.

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I personally like them.

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For more expensive computers without

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communication port,

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there were other devices like this trackball,

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which was included into the keyboard port.

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And actually, he was listening to the keyboard

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and sending it and when you rotate the ball,

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it was sending a QSOR key key presses.

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Funny moment.

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Yes, you could chat with it,

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open text editor, type something,

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it listens,

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and sometimes answers you in your own text editor.

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And 1986 is one return to mouse based on wheels,

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like Andrew Bartz,

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wheels are much smaller than the reason.

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They thought that it will be less prone to dirt.

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This one is a manager mouse,

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rather simple,

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and I would say rather bad,

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from the construction point of view,

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but jacolic rate,

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it's another approach with wheels,

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which are slightly,

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yeah,

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at an angle,

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and they are rotating,

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and they are placed outside of the mouse.

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If the resolution would be higher,

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I would say it will be real,

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you know,

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will think,

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but this tiny wheels.

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You can easily,

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by the way,

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connect this one to a Linux computer.

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You just need to provide extra power,

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because normal communication port will not power this.

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And 1987,

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the end of anarchy among mice,

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because TS-2 interface appears,

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and starting from this,

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you can buy a dongle in AliExpress,

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well,

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not in 1987,

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but soon.

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And forget about problems connecting mice.

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A few more devices,

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just to mention,

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the first ergonomic mice,

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which actually copied the sending or block.

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The idea of Microsoft was that people are using such blocks

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for hundreds of years,

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the probably it should be rather comfortable for a hand,

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and it was,

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from connection point of view,

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it's not interesting,

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by the way,

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either quadrature or serial.

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And,

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the 1995,

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almost the last mouse,

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almost,

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the luggage did,

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remember these zero optical mouse,

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and put the same pattern on the ball,

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and got rid of mechanics,

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and used optical sensors,

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matrix just to track the rotation.

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Actually,

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Microsoft will soon do the same with normal mice,

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in 98,

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with intelligent mouse,

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just adding more sensors to get rid of mouse pad.

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But the last important mouse,

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I would mention,

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was the mouse system's pro-edges,

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chrome mouse from 1995,

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because,

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well,

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it made all mice before it legacy.

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Because of the scroll wheel,

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you see,

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the wheel,

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it's a cylinder,

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but it was intended to zoom in Excel,

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but people quickly understood that it's not for Excel,

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but for scrolling,

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and sold their revolution,

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and it,

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and all previous mice became,

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almost useless.

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So the conclusions,

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surprisingly,

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all,

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you know, mice,

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which are key turning points in the evolution of mice,

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are connected to USB with some open source tools.

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I,

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well,

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when I've started this presentation,

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I actually didn't know.

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I will get 100% of mice,

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connected.

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The most difficult parallel mice,

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well,

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they are known to be difficult for

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IBM PC compatible computers of the past,

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now are extremely easy,

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because,

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quadrature interface is the same.

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The most tricky exotic bosses,

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actually,

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they turn out to be a normal

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comport with additional power,

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or powered by this lazy chain,

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a tricky boss by keyboards.

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And,

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well,

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a few useful links as a last slide.

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The first is just the history of

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a Logitech mice with really nice photos,

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I love a lot.

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And,

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then, a few links to most important

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converters,

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and,

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actually,

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the last link,

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the website with those mice,

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which,

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didn't fit in to 20 minutes,

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but,

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which we have explored in details,

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and try to describe,

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thank you.

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That's all.

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Yep, please.

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This is all from personal collection,

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or,

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I,

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first three are not.

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Three are from museums,

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sorry.

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But, all others are...

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Your collection.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Oh, please.

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Well,

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that's a difficult question,

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substantially bigger than,

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where I already explored.

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So, on the website,

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we have 50 with something mice,

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and a multiplied by something.

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So, yeah,

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a lot of work is still to be done.

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Yep, please.

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All the mouse for consoles,

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like my station,

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or...

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Oh,

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yeah.

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Good question, by the way.

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Yeah.

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The question is about some of my protocols,

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which may be not supported by

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a person who's converters,

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like PlayStation or so on.

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Good question.

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I wouldn't say that zero mice

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are non-connectable with open source.

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No, no, no.

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There are three key protocols,

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which I personally don't know how to,

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to convert.

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I wanted only to say that mice,

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which were turning points

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in the evolution of mice.

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All those mice are surprisingly supported

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by open source converters.

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Yeah.

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But still writing a converter,

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creating a converter on our DNA,

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it's, well,

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it's something,

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or which still has to be done for few protocols.

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Just the mice itself,

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the mouse itself may be not so interesting,

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but the protocol can be rather tricky.

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That's the answer.

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Yeah, please.

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No.

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I used a,

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what's the reason to make some claps,

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but what is the,

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the protocol,

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the most common thing for MY?

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Ah, the question was,

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what's my favorite mouse protocol and why?

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Good question.

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I would prefer,

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quite the true mice,

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because they saved me a lot of time,

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and I think,

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by just changing the pins,

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in the Arduino sketch.

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Please.

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Please.

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I'm going up the question

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about just a story for you.

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I used some of those mice,

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these were in the 80s,

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and especially the awful commoner.

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When you're the first mouse in the 80s,

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I knew a person

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that I've never seen a mouse before,

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and then they're able to use it

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upside down.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay.