inconsequentia

I’m on leave for a few weeks soon, and today I was given a sur­pris­ingly fat Christ­mas bonus. So instead of doing any­thing use­ful like book­ing accom­mod­a­tion or try­ing to learn Thai or maybe even (gasp!) work­ing, I’ve been think­ing about buy­ing new pho­to­graphy gear to take on my trip. The list cur­rently looks like: Wide-angle […]

I spent some time yes­ter­day after­noon tool­ing around with Brad Hard’s mx610hack. The Air works in a very sim­ilar way to the 610, so it’s an excel­lent frame­work for send­ing cap­tured com­mands to the mouse and con­firm­ing they’re what I expect. The Air mouse has a touch pad that replaces the scroll wheel, and one […]

(with thanks to the semi-anonymous com­ment on my last post for point­ing me more firmly at the evdev sub­sys­tem) The MX Air mouse presents two sep­ar­ate HID devices. I’d noticed this before, but hadn’t worked out the sig­ni­fic­ance until this after­noon when I had a tent­at­ive first stab at get­ting the mouse work­ing with the […]