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Background; HamsterTracker™ History


It all started in 1994



First design of interface in 1994 In 1994 I bought a trackball in a sale somewhere. Determined to build an interface for the PC, I started designing. I was planning to use the serial communications port, and designed some circuitry to implement my desires.

This prove to be much more work than I could have ever imagined. Countless hours went into soldering, testing and bugfixing. Needless to say I never actually built the Trackball interface. [Who could ever imagine that the Trackball interface would evolve into the HamsterTracker™ interface :-) ? ]

The Main Board

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I started building and soldering, as you can see on the photograph. This picture was actually taken a few months ago. I'm sorry to say I didn't have a webcam 10 years ago.



The Second Board

Picture of Mppp-i second board
Years later I designed a second board for dealing with Input lines.

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Picture of Mppp-i second board bottom
As you can see, this board has been built a bit neater than the first one.

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Putting it all together

Picture of Mppp-i second board


Picture of Mppp-i second board bottom


To be continued...






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ing. Mathijs A. van der Paauw