DJ turntable out of an old mouse

albusa

Ever wanted to get your DJ on but you just couldn’t bring yourself to get away from your pc for more than 5 minutes? Of course you have. That’s why a guy named Alex went and took apart an old school mouse and a turntable and made them into a very interesting combination. Along with some special software, you can use the axis’ of your mouse-turntable combination to actually scratch in realtime.

MATERIALS

1. a defunct mouse
2. a defunct turntable

The resulting turntable CANNOT be used the way you used the turntable before.

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<h3>Building a serial turntable</h3>
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<td nosave width="100%"> Well, not much to say about this: the
turntable. With a serial connector instead of a power plug and audio
connectors.</td>
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<a href="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_normal.jpg">
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<td>The turntable without it's black cover. You can see two wholes in
the table and we'll take a closer look at the left one with the next
shot.</td>
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<a href="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_top1.jpg">
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<td>Through this whole you can see axis of the motor that formally drove
that turntable. I decided to use this axis for my mouse as:
<ul>
<li>the mouse "sensor" actually fits perfectly on this axis Wink

</li>
<li>this axis rotates much faster then main axis which produces a
better signal from the mouse.</li>
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<a href="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_top_zoom.jpg">
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<td>Now this thing in the middle is a mouse-axis after being removed
from it's former device. You will see this thing (without it's metal
axis) in the next shot at it's new position.</td>
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<a href="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_mouse_axis.jpg">
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<td>As you can see I opened the turntable's motor removed some of it.
Then I simply attached the mouse x-axis "sensor" to the motor's axis.
You have to ensure that the sensor is fixed and does not rotate when the
axis moves.</td>
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<a href="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_mouse_connect.jpg">
<img src="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_mouse_connect_sml.jpg" nosave height="115" width="153"></a></div>
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<td>Now this is the heart of the old mouse. This picture is here for a
good reason. Take a look at the fullres picture to see: this turntable
is  <i>WINDOWS 95 COMPATIBLE</i>. Thank god.</td>
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<a href="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_the_mouse.jpg">
<img src="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_the_mouse_sml.jpg" nosave height="115" width="153"></a></div>
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<td>Just to give you an impression of what a turntable looks like from
the inside here's a shot of the complete turntable. The motor and the
mouse are located in the upper left area of this picture.</td>
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<a href="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tt_open_total.jpg">
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<td>Now if you want XFree86 to accept the turntable as an additional
input device add the lines to the right to your XF86Config. Of course
you will have to adjust Protocol and Device according to the mouse you
are using. Run a "man XF86Config" for the details. You have to restart
your X-server for the changes to take effect.</td>
<td><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica">Section "XInput"</font> <br>
<font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica"> Subsection "Mouse"</font> <br>
<font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica">      Protocol    "MouseMan"</font>
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<font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica">      Device      "/dev/ttyS1"</font>
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<font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica">  DeviceName  "turntable"</font>
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<td>Finally you'll have to tell terminatorX to actually use the
turntable. Simply select the device (with the DeviceName you chose to
give it in your XF86Config) in the Options Dialog and from now on you
should be able to scratch with your turntable.</td>
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<img src="http://terminatorx.cx/pix/tX_xinput.gif" nosave height="115" width="153"></td>
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You better use Virtual DJ or atomix mp3

albusa

enter here to see better the DJ turntable
http://terminatorx.cx/oldtable.html
http://terminatorx.cx/oldtable.html

WickedGravity

I have said it more than once....

If yo are going to:

A. Use code from another site, please give credit where credit is due and make sure you give the link to the laterial on the site.

B. If you are going to post code on the forum page, please post it in between the code brackets.

For example, the above should look like:

simplyw00x

What exactly was the point of posting the HTML of that?

homer09001

i think the idea was so it looked like wat it does on the site i dont think he realised HTML is disabled

How many words per minute do you type?
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