Interesting peripherals

Anyone have anything interesting hooked up to their computer, beyond the standard monitor/mouse/keyboard stuff?

I just found my old micromite, it connects to your serial port and lets you control electric lights, motors, switches etc. through it. Still works too, surprisingly :biggrin:

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

I have a Logitech G15 keyboard, which yeah, is a keyboard, but a pretty damn fancy one :smile:



Besides that I have a Wacom tablet (Graphire 3 I believe...can't actually remember :biggrin: ), a Logitech mx1000 mouse (luuuuuurvly mouse), a set of pretty bog standard but plenty good enough for me Creative 5.1 speakers, and a pair of Zalman 5.1 headphones. All stuff I am very happy with, but not hugely exciting from the point of view of this thread :smile:

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I have my palm, does that count? :smile:

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I don't actually have these hooked up to my computer, but I have them in my "museum."

• an ISA card that is a RAM expansion for 80/86 machines
• a "bus mouse" card
• an LPT port card
• IR interface card
• a 20-pound, 6kb Hard Drive

Lots of crap that NOBODY would ever buy, so I kept.

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
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I'm going to build an IR to serial box soon, so I can use remotes on my computer. Suckily enough the only freeware requires IR through serial ports only, no USB :sad:

But, I have a Graphire 3 tablet ... which I think I've used twice ... and a USB to PSX converter.

A six channel receiver, if that counts. And if you're counting that, I suppose you could count all my consoles too.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

I have a few Theres my Belkin Nostromo N52

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=2071&pcount=&Product_Id=157024

and for my music I have a Tascam us-428

http://www.tascam.com/Products/US428_downloads.html

which I can record 32 track stuff using Adobe audition.

I've got a flash drive, mp3 player, and a little recording station that's hooked up to my guitar and keyboard (pianoish one)

The only thing I had/have for gaming is my 5 button/wheel optical mouse. I could do almost anything except walk/run with its buttons preset.

Beats the hell out of a 3 button job.

You could set all five buttons to do things, pluse set the wheel so if you rolled it forward it did another, and back still another. So you had 7 things you could do with one mouse.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Yeah I couldn't go back to a 3 button mouse these days, after using the MS Optical Intellimouse for so long. Now with the MX1000 I actually have 12 functions technically (if you include cruise buttons, tilt wheel, app switch button), but only 7 can be bound in games. Though if I was so inclined, I could bind some of the others to keyboard keys in windows, and then bind those keyboard keys to more functions, to make use of all 12 :biggrin: Something tells me I'd have trouble filling up all those buttons though!

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Something I'd advise to everyone, a USB vacuum cleaner. You think they are just stupid prehiperals, but they are actually really useful. I got mine as a kinda mini joke gift at christmas, but I actually use it more than any other Xmas gift I got- use it to clean my laptop (keyboard, screen edges, inputs etc), my PC (same), but also much more.

/puts on cheesy salesmans tone

Ever tried cleaning a guitar bridge? Crap gets caught all in them and unless you take every part of it off you can't clean it. With my mini vacuum I can clean any part of my guitar without even removing the strings, but theres more! I clean my phone, webcam, anything small and fiddly to clean. The mini vacuum also has 3 different heads- a brush, a thin slot tube and a standard small tube- so useful for everything!

/end salesman talk

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I got a battery powered one but it was ludicrously s**t. Couldn't suck up anything whatsoever, so it got binned. I'd like a decent one, for keyboard duty as well as getting stuff up from inside the PC, but that latter requirement kinda means a USB one isn't ideal :sad:

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Yer they aren't too powerful, but enough to get dust, lint, crumbs and shizzle in the keyboard.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I have one of the older sidewinder joysticks sitting on a shelf right
next to me, it's pre-USB, and I don't have a game card (yet), so it's
unused at the moment.

It's one of the earliest joysticks that were on par with modern ones, and it's around 8 years old.

It's a 9-button joystick, with throttle, twist, and a thumb-button on top.

A "Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro"

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
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