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
posted Apr 30th 2007 9:24AM
I'm sorry, but the "mouse mouse" is just disgusting. I understand it was already dead, etc... but still.
Talk about... taking the word "literally" to a new height.
AWESOME!
that steam one is so cool. ive tried making some electronics with an antique look, and its not easy to make look good
Fake? Why not real droppings?
Mouse mouse is indeed disgusting.
Steampunk mouse is cool as hell. I love steampunk stuff.
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. :)
I don't know why you would want to have your hands on a real mouse corpse all day. . .
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.
ewwwwwww. Just ewwwwwww.
The steampunk mouse looks cool, but......I can just imagine how my hand will stink after holding brass for a few hours.