Jessica Demasis Week 3: Mouse

 

For my mouse I didn’t want to stick to the stereotypical form. I wanted to design something useful, but different. I fell on the idea of a finger mouse. A mouse that involves just slipping your pointer finger in place and moving it around as if actually pointing the computer where to go. I found similar concepts online, but to make mine different I made it useable in different ways. For one my mouse can be moved around on any surface, anything from the table to even your lap. You can also pick it up completely and just move around by scrolling the track ball at the bottom with your thumb. To left click you have the choice of using the button directly under your pointer finger or the left one on the side of the mouse.

My mouse was made primarily out of a spear that I rebuilt and edited with boolean difference. The final shape was then put over a spear that would later be the track ball. The side buttons I started by drawing out the area for them.  With that shape drawn I used extrude and boolean split to get what I would use to make the divit for the buttons and the buttons themselves. I also used that area shape to pipe into the rim surrounding them. The top button I mad in the same way (besides the rim). Then I added the grip that goes around your finger using cylinder and Boolean difference. Finally I finished it off using fillet.

 I stuck to mostly plastic for this design. I wanted to keep the materials cheap so that it could be something that most people could theoretically afford. For the buttons I used a sort of plastic that would be softer to touch and push. I used a similar material for the track ball so that it would have more traction. The only other material used on this piece is the rubber ring that keeps the mouse from sliding away from your finger.