Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:43:17 +0000 From: Joe Gwinn Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Laser Mouse Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:43:16 -0400 Message-ID: <7h052j95l3efga4rnp814ehd914t81b579@4ax.com> References: <8lit1jd210tmtl0p2h5dotog3ji7nsv8ph@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-duiAM2qeMKR6UKdt4Dim6FIf2nlXSTH20/TYUut2WpmPURwj11r8pIa/enr12QtU38cqSXgWFG4F75Q!dmZ0R/V8enZIymx3X/XUpEAHdPnSbKWx/zuB9WlJvK1i7UfBd68jzFeriWIXh2rm+vTLFBA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 1704 On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:06:19 -0700, john larkin wrote: >If you have an Ikea desk and your LED optical mouse doesn't work right >(something about the optics of the varnish) this should fix it: > > > >It was really annoying to be tweaking a PCB layout and having the >cursor wander around, or get stuck. Probably the varnished wood has too little fine texture for correlation tracking to work. What I have been using with success is a "3M Precise Mouse Pad Enhances the Precision of Optical Mice at Fast Speed, 9 in x 8 in (MP114-BSD1)" for $8 from Amazon: .. Joe Gwinn