The Steampunk mouse and the mouse mouse

Hopefully that'll be the last time we're forced to write "mouse" three times in a headline, although the quality of these two mouse mods makes it completely worth it. First is the Steampunk mouse, which would look brilliant sitting next to your steampunk laptop and steampunk keyboard. You could even get your steampunk robot to help out with the construction, which took around 10 hours and only cost the creator Jake $5 to make. If you skip to the real -- as opposed to steampunk roleplay -- description you'll see that it's made up of an nameless laptop mouse and a "big jumble of bits and bobs from [Jake's] parts bin", which tends to be the case with most steampunk efforts. We wouldn't be surprised if the next mouse mod, the mouse mouse, was made using material found in a bin either. In this mod, noahw and canida over at instructibles stuffed a real, taxidermy mouse with the parts from a hacked computer travel mouse. Words cannot describe the combination of horror and awe at seeing the electrical guts of a real rodent being splayed for all to see. Now all that's needed is a PC case modded into a burrow and a mousepad with fake droppings.

[Via MAKE; thanks, jiltedcitizen]

Read -- The mouse mouse
Read -- The Steampunk mouse

[Jared Harley @ Apr 30th 2007 10:25AM]

I'm sorry, but the "mouse mouse" is just disgusting. I understand it was already dead, etc... but still.

[Steve D. @ Apr 30th 2007 10:32AM]

Talk about... taking the word "literally" to a new height.

AWESOME!

[boomhauer @ Apr 30th 2007 10:45AM]

that steam one is so cool. ive tried making some electronics with an antique look, and its not easy to make look good

[David @ Apr 30th 2007 10:47AM]

Fake? Why not real droppings?

[tiuk @ Apr 30th 2007 10:50AM]

Mouse mouse is indeed disgusting.

Steampunk mouse is cool as hell. I love steampunk stuff.

[kingofwale @ Apr 30th 2007 11:50AM]

I know mice aren't the most popular animal outthere, but you think there might be a chance that PETA will come charging in with protest signs?

Yeah. talk about biased. :)

[Castle @ Apr 30th 2007 12:17PM]

I don't know why you would want to have your hands on a real mouse corpse all day. . .

[R @ Apr 30th 2007 1:18PM]

Methinks the Mouse Mouse is useful only for it's email-this-link-to-your-friends-to-gross-them-out factor. I doubt anyone actually plans on marketing it.

[Andrew Solmssen @ Apr 30th 2007 2:29PM]

ewwwwwww. Just ewwwwwww.

[sean @ Apr 30th 2007 3:31PM]

The steampunk mouse looks cool, but......I can just imagine how my hand will stink after holding brass for a few hours.