I Build My Dream Gaming Mouse

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I was excited to start working on my custom gaming mouse project, but things didn't go exactly as planned. First, I had to solder everything onto the custom PCBs and attach those to the original Logitech PCB. This was where my lack of instructions reared its ugly head because I wasn't supposed to solder these wires directly to the various components - I was meant to use connectors.

As I began mounting the components inside my 3D printed shell, I encountered another issue. The battery contacts were supposed to be soldered to their connector, but now all there was left to do was Mount all the PCBs and buttons and stuff, which became a massive process.

I finally ran into my cable issue because with the fixed wires I had to mount the original Logitech PCB to the base bit of plastic before attaching the main click buttons. This was an issue because you had to screw down the main click buttons through the bottom of the mouse, which was now blocked by the plastic casing.

Luckily, the main click buttons fit snugly, so I decided to just use them without actually mounting them. There was only one thing left to do: screw the base in place and see if our Abomination worked.

Oh no, it didn't! But after a few moments of troubleshooting, I discovered that even the DPI button works, right click works... and so did everything else. It's a gaming mouse that works!

The fit and finish might not be great because well, again, I made it. The Click buttons are pretty much just held in by some faith and friction, which isn't ideal.

However, I'm super excited to finally have a proper gaming vertical mouse, thanks to my genius wizard Sensei for the huge amount of effort that you put into developing this mouse for me. Thank you, bamboo labs, for sending over a 3D printer for this video. You're welcome, and thank you for watching! Subscribe if you enjoyed this madness, and until the next video, bye-bye.

I also need to note some things I could have done better. I'll probably re-print the shell at some point. My Wizard Sensei was a little upset that I didn't use connectors - just soldered all the wires directly to stuff because that's why I couldn't screw the Click buttons down. But that's for a later day, not today's problem.

Now we're going to try it out and see how it performs. You can immediately tell that the sensor is better than in the Logitech one that I've been using - it feels so smooth and good! Oh, the shoulder buttons work, which is very useful for me because I use those for voice chatting with strangers on the internet.

However, there's one minor issue: the clicks are a bit problematic. I have to be cognizant about how you press the right click button because sometimes it does slide under the body a little bit. That might be due to the fact that I haven't screwed it down properly, and also the plastic is pretty sweaty.

But overall, it responds to my grip differently than the plastic casing, which... well, that's just part of the journey!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enprophecy has for told of a great gaming mouse forged in the depths  of Mount bamboo by skilled Craftsmen for the sole purpose of being the ultimate  gaming mouse and after centuries of brutal toil the prophecy is about to be fulfilledabout a year ago I went on a journey for a new gaming mouse because I was starting to get some  pretty bad carpal tunnel in my gaming forearm and it was during that search that I realized  that I really like vertical mice like this one because what this mouse does for those of you that  don't know it just kind of lifts your forearm off the desk a bit so that you don't get as bad wanker  crap while gaming and after a bit of practice I actually became more accurate with one of these  vertical mice than a normal gaming one but there's a pretty big problem with most vertical mice there  aren't really proper gaming versions of any of them they're all kind of productivity focused  which means they've got a sensor in it that shroud wouldn't even wipe his crusty gamer hole with now  I was just happy to use this pathetic office version of it for the rest of my life and just  suffer in silence but luckily I've got a friend who's a bit of a design genius and he used his  wizard powers to take like the shell of this Logitech MX vertical and plant the guts of  a Logitech g305 inside it so that we have the internals of a gaming mouse but the sex appeal  of a vertical Mouse on the outside although all he did was design it for me he didn't  actually make me a mouse that part's up to me which boy that's been one hell of a 3 month  process up till this point which I guess we should start having a look at now starting at  the beginning with me having to do something I've never done before when my highly  skilled wizard friend finished the six-month development process of my dream gaming mouse  knowing the process of building it would involve 3D printing I decided to reach out to Bamboo Labs  who according to Panda digest makes the tastiest 3D printers and they were kind enough to send over  one of their X1 Carbon Beast printers for this video very nice of them oh I was wondering  where the top like multimaterial bit was but apparently it's just sleeping inside  so um yeah let's get that out oh so much of high-tech looking stuff in here high-tech  indeed and setting it up felt like putting together the machine that would construct theT800 so now that all of the calibration has happened I guess we print Beni and see what  happens but the moment the printing started I noticed a big problem with my setup um surely  that's an issue I don't know the 3D printer was so violent that it was bucking the Ikea desk  like a rodeo clown a few moments later okay well it's finished dominating the Ikea desk  I am going to have to make a different plan about how I set it up because that violence can't possi  be good for printer accuracy uh although let's take it out and see how hot is this well I mean  straight off the bat that is a very highdea looking Beni not that I have ever seen one  before or have any idea what it's supposed to look like considering that expecting a table  to bear this thing printing on it is like expecting it to handle a bull giving birth  on it so I think for now I'm going to put it on the floor now the way in which you tell  the 3D printer where to jizz out it lines of hot plastic goo that make up your new gaming  mouse is by feeding it stdl files they look like this and they're basically CAD files that the 3D  printing software can read and these are the ones that my genius wizard Sensei cooked up  but he did want me to let you know that he used a bunch of references in this design  project I'll actually have his thingaverse page linked down below with this whole project on  and he'll have all of his references linked there if you're interested in checking those  out but anyway getting back to the story once I moved the 3D printer to the the ground I was  rearing to print my new gaming mouse not knowing that I had weeks of struggle that layahead pop this up oh so here's our big tower of waste oh now I've decided to try bamboo labs's  carbon fiber pla which sounds really cool but I don't think it's quite the right material  for this because unlike the Beni which is pla that is really smooth plastic the carbon is quite  rough in its texture so it doesn't it doesn't feel great other than that let's get break off  all the oh all the supports breaking off the supports is a harrowing process that feels  like you're constantly on the verge of destroying hours worth of work oh wow this is a wildly unfun  process I thought this was supposed to come off easily so the inside looks like it was  Savaged by a rabid animal which it it kind of was but cool there we go we've got some  mouse action going that's exciting and this was the start of my suffering print after  print was failing oh no oh that's tragic that's like an 8 Hour printfailing after weeks of printing a bunch bunch of shells I even had the little jiz hole Jam but  after generating a graveyard of failed prints in a cycle of suffering that crept into mydreams I finally bought one of these okay so this is a filament dryer and  apparently it should be able to saave off my nightmares after drying the filament and  anxiously waiting for the print to finish I was about to find out whether or not I could once  again sleep in peace Moment of Truth wa that undercarriage is already way better we don't  have any of the failed screw holes like I did with all the other prints and once I was finished with  the process of brutalizing some trees I was very happy with the result now first off the print is  so much better than any of the previous ones but this massive trees in the battery compartment is  a complete nightmare to get on oh oh so the moral of the story is if you're 3D printing  anything of even medium complexity you should probably buy a filament dryer but with that  new found success I printed the remaining seven Parts I needed before heading to steptwo now I ended up getting two of these because well I don't trust myself at all  with this desoldering process cuz it's like off actual pcbs and stuff so I can't imagine this  is going to go very well and considering that forgetting my wizard sensei's advice about the  filament dryer cost me weeks of my life I was sure to not forget to buy the desoldering gun  that he said I very much should use for this so I guess now we have to figure out how to  take apart a mouse um I think I need more tools luckily getting inside the g305 was as simple as  undoing the screws under the feet and then just breaking it open okay there we go revealing the  Magnificent Mouse organs were harvesting and once I removed the PCB from the lower shell I was ready  to start desoldering some smds the soldering guns getting noisy temperatures are climbing I'm going  to do 320 and see work my way up from there which meant it was time to delve into my wizard  Sensi instructions now if you've watched any videos on this channel you'll know that I don't  instructions too good so um I was about to start some intense struggles now desoldering the foot  couple of wires was pretty straightforward sick we've got a little connector I'm going to have  to extend these wires later that's crazy but then I started to get to some real stubborn  soldering joints this joint's just not okay so apparently Weller recommends 370 oh oh finally  I think it's still a functional switch so now we need to desolder some more stuff but then I got to  the scroll wheel the desoldering of which was a rage inducing process that took hours eventually  My Wizard Sensei recommended I use a soldering iron to preheat the joint and then suck it dry  this is quite the process eventually though after a lunch rage quit I think I've broken  the mouse I'm also super frustrated like I'm I'm done for now I don't know that's like super  tilting I got the little scroll wheel free and desoldered everything else I needed from the PCB  The Next Step was to reattach the various cables and switches and stuff to relocation pcbs which we  needed because of the weird shape of the vertical Mouse I also needed to extend a bunch of the wires  so that they could reach through the crevices of the massive new mouse interior and once I soldered  everything onto the custom pcbs and attached those to the original Logitech PCB I was ready to start  mounting the components inside my 3D printed shell but this was where me not instruction  too good reared its ugly head because I wasn't meant to solder these wires straight to the  various BCBS I was supposed to use connectors which becomes a problem soon next I mounted the  battery contacts cuz remember this is a wireless mouse and soldered them to their connector and now  all there was left to do is Mount all the pcbs and various buttons and stuff and by all that's left  to do I meant a massive process got a functional button there that's cool now aside from screwing  Down The Click mounting plate the wrong way around which kind of screwed with clearance something  that was straightforward to fix I finally ran into my cable issue because with the fixed wires I had  to mount the original Logitech PCB to the base bit of plastic before attaching the main click  buttons and this was an issue because you had to screw down the main click buttons through  the bottom of the mouse which was now blocked by the bottom of the mouse luckily the main click  buttons fit real snug so I decided to just use them without actually mounting them all there  was left to do now is screw the base in place and see if our Abomination works oh it doesn't oh no  okay that I don't know how to troubleshoot this um I mean let me just see if the on switch is correct  a few moments later no way it works whoa I think even the DPI button works right click Works click  okay right click works every now and then and just like that it's done look at that it's a  gaming mouse that works that I made now um the fit and finish maybe isn't great because well again I  made it uh the The Click buttons are pretty much just held in by some faith and friction so that  that's not great but I mean it's it's functional look at that it's a working Mouse now there are  definitely some things that I could have done better I'll probably re print the Shell at some  point My Wizard Sensei was a little bit upset that I didn't use connectors I just soldered all the  wires directly to stuff cuz that's why I couldn't screw the The Click buttons down uh but that's  for a later day that's not today's problem now we're going to try game on it whoa well you can  immediately tell that the sensor is better than in the the Logitech one that I've been using it feels  so smooth and good oh the shoulder buttons work I use those for voice so that's very useful now I  can shout at strangers on the internet who but the sensor is definitely better that's cool it feels  like a gaming mouse but we've got like a like a not gaming mouse body look at that oh okay the  the clicks are um maybe a little bit problematic I have to be cognizant about how you press the  right click because sometimes it does slide under the body a little bit but I think that may be down  to the fact that I haven't screwed it down the plastic is also very sweaty I will say it it  responds to my grip differently than the plastic that oh the round's over so um that's that's  also not not great shortcomings aside I am super excited to finally have a proper gaming vertical  Mouse thank you so much to my genius wizard Sensei for the huge amount of effort that you put into  developing this mouse for me thank you bamboo labs for sending over a 3D printer for this video thank  you for watching subscribe if you enjoyed this madness and until the next video bye-bye