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also I think the scroll wheel is a bit buggy as well, since I spray painted the top half. It seems that the mouse scrolls by using an optical sensor detecting the mouse wheel, and it gets confused when it sees the light blue. That means whenever I want to scroll down, it occasionally scrolls up a bit. A bit annoying, but I’m surprised the thing scrolls at all

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lemmyng@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Most scroll wheels use an optical sensor inside the housing to monitor the motion of the wheel. If you got paint inside the housing then it can confuse the sensor.

Question: did you take off the top of the mouse to paint it, or at least tape off any areas that needed to be protected like the scroll wheel and the bottom sensor?

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- scheep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  …no (in hindsight probably should have taped the sensor)
  
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  - algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Honestly just get a new mouse and consider this a lesson to be a bit more careful next time. The amount of effort to fix your current mouse isn’t worth your time
    
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    scheep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    yeah next time I really should tape the important bits of the mouse
    
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- Devadander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Clearly they did not
  
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