This Engineer Created The Best Version of the Apple Magic Mouse
(gizmodo.com)
from FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2023 14:41
https://lemmy.world/post/8472610
from FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2023 14:41
https://lemmy.world/post/8472610
An engineer hacked Apple’s infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying. Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.
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An engineer hacked Apple’s infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying.
Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.
Kuleshov recently shared on X that he has created “the world’s first ergonomic Magic Mouse with no weaknesses” and that “you can charge it via USB-C right while you’re working.” In the same Twitter thread, he walked us through the details.
Kuleshov also adds that he knows there’s room for improvement and will share this project on his site and GitHub “in the coming days.”
Interestingly enough, there have been past attempts at fixing the Magic Mouse, like when Matty Benedetto, behind the famous YouTube channel Unnecessary Inventions, 3D printed a lifter for the back of the Magic Mouse 2 that rolled around on a pair of metal ball bearings.
The lift allowed the mouse to slide around a desk while connecting to a power source and recharging.
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So he took a magic mouse amd turned it into a regular mouse?
Pretty much, but considering Apple’s proprietary hardware, I’d call that quite the accomplishment.
Because it cannot be used while charging, so remedied that oversight/built-in ridiculousness.
Definitely the latter. It wasn’t an oversight, because I guarantee you plenty of engineers were telling management how stupid that was. They did the same stupid bullshit with the Apple Pencil.
Stupid? Hold my beer while we put the charging port right on the bottom plate, so it doesn’t interrupt those clean beautiful lines while it lays on its side like a bloated dolphin.
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I’ve been bitten by this. I’ve gotten a battery warning in the AM at the start of a day and had my mouse die in the early afternoon. It’s annoying that I can’t just charge it while working so I had to dig around for another mouse and use that while it charged. I hate that I have to check the charge on it and then forget after a while because it does last a long time. So it’ll die on me and I’ll get good about checking charge for a few days and then forget for a while and boom it happens again. If Apple sold this config I would definitely replace my current mouse with a better design.
Logitech had the foresight to put a little light on their devices that lets you know when the battery is low. But I guess that would ruin the sleek form factor.
Which is not that useful for a device I don’t really look at, and is covered by my hand when in use. I can continue using my trackball while it is charging, though.
It is covered by your hand because it has bad ergonomics.
Good mouses have plenty of space for lights.
Every Apple thread has at least one of those replies.
It’s not an oversight, it’s a willful decision from Apple.
“We decided using our devices while charging ruins the magic of it all being wireless, etc. so we made the unilateral decision to stop you from doing that even if you don’t give a fuck (like a normal human) about it being wireless all the time, always. This is the way we already decided you need to use Apple products so that it feels ‘futuristic’ and all other opinions are objectively wrong.”
Apple is no better than Microsoft, they both love making decisions for you.
no, it’s still a shitty mouse. You can’t hold one button down and click the other (imaging trying to aim/shoot a rifle in CoD)
Last time I touched a magic mouse, it couldn’t register which finger was clicking if you just let your fingers rest naturally on the mouse. i.e. you had to lift the opposite finger off the mouse to click left/right. Have they fixed that?
Right… click?!
The Magic Mouse right clicks.
But never both at the same time
Or always both at the same time depending on your outlook 🤔
So what he said was true, from a certain point of view…
(Jedi noises intensify)
Off topic: Ok, I’m doxing myself, but when I read “X” I think of the *nix window manager. Please call it Xitter so it’s immediately obvious.
Edit: OK, Twitter then. Sounds fine.
Eh, I just call it Twitter. It’s the only kind of deadnaming I find acceptable.
Yeah we need to stop giving corporations rights that only humans deserve.
Ooh, deadnaming sounds hardcore.
Deadnaming Facebook is basedbook
You can buy lots of variants of this idea already. Magic mouse base search on Amazon.
This hack is more thorough. For example he split the top and bottom shells so the skates actually make contact with the desk/pad.
Yeah, still gonna stick to my logitech pro superlight.
I get it. I don’t even like to use mice. Or touchpads. I used a Logitech trackball.
If Apple doesn’t want to fix that thing, they should kill it and start shipping computers with their trackpad by default. Their trackpads are actually good.
Apple is now sending a hitman directly to his house
Still missing a scroll wheel though.
The touch surface is about the only good thing about that mouse though. I hate that thing when I have to use it, but scrolling with it is pretty nice.
The “Magic” of that mouse is that people paid money for it like morons. Apple marketing go BRRRRRRRR.
Yeah Apple, a flat mouse. That’s what the people want. Absolutely nothing for their palm to grip onto while using the damn thing.