Once installed, the default options may be enough to get you started but if you want to dive into the dashboard and make a totally custom player, start by going to the wrench in the top right corner and select Settings.
Theoretically if you program the USB (or PS/2 serial) driver at a low level, you can "read" the events from one USB device and, importantly, also keep those commands from being forwarded to the Windowing System.FancyTube converts the Youtube simple player into an advanced player, giving you a dashboard of customization tools.
Generally this means you can plug in a bunch of mice and any one will move the cursor and no one mouse is the master and different software does not "claim" any particular mouse nor can distinguish between different mice. note that it is the Windowing Manager that renders the mouse *pointer* which follows mouse movements (commands coming from the mouse device). Virtually all USB *drivers* built into all modern operating systems consider HID commands coming from multiple devices to all be sent to the single Windowing Manager for use in any windowed application (thus the application that received mouse-move events, for example, is controlled by the Windowing system- generally sent to the active window, sometimes sent to the window overwhich the mouse is positioned). This is a standard for keyboards and mice, and includes only standard commands like "letter A key pressed down", "letter A key released", "mouse X moved +N ticks", and "mouse L button clicked down". In my picture I have bent the tabs on the encoder at right angles to the actual component and have already glued in my metal rod.īy using the guts of a USB mouse (or PS/2 mouse converted to USB) in this instructable, it will be sending USB "Human Interface Device" or "HID" commands over USB. This is a bit more durable than directly soldering the wires. No seriously, your second option is to use a piece of stripboard to connect the pins to the wires, as I did. You can either solder the wires directly onto the corresponding pins of the encoder or you can go into the magic cave and look for the chest of mystery (). These will need to be about 3-6 inches long depending on your project box size. Now in each of the holes that the encoder was sat in, solder a different colour of wire. Heat the solder points with your iron and use either solder wick or a desoldering pump to pull off the solder from the board, releasing the encoder. Make a note of which way the encoder points, or you'll solder it backwards and it won't work properly. Now flip over the board and find the holes where the encoder is soldered in (there should be 3 of them in a row). Right, now it's time to pull out the mouse wheel from the hole that it sits in and bin it.
I could have set my RSS reader up with each of the blogs that I read and go through the titles daily, or I could have set up a Yahoo! Pipe to filter by words in the title. The problem for me came when I realised that only some of the posts were interesting to me, and to get to the interesting ones took a lot of scrolling.
Each day I'll read the latest posts on engadget, lifehacker, hackaday, BBG and the MAKE: blog. Make Magazine's weekend project, 3/4/09 Some Background Recently, I've been reading a lot of different blogs.