I’ve repaired this worthless older generation Logitech G Hero mouse 5 times in two years, but after its most recent cleaning the 5 pin cable molex snapped and I feel absolutely no desire to keep this creature alive for another moment.
I had a similar cable failure on a Logitech keyboard awhile back, which admittedly I did fix and do plan to keep around because it’s hard to find a mechanical keyboard with an aluminium body and also NOT completely covered to the teeth with rainbow LEDs.
Can anybody recommend me a good durable mouse, preferably not aimed at gamers?
I can’t speak to long-term reliability, but this open source design is designed to be repairable: https://ploopy.co/mouse/
It’s cool, do they plan to at some point sell just the internals?
Sorry; no idea. I’m not affiliated with them. I found them organically (almost certainly from an open source community here on lemmy) and I just think it’s a really cool project and business model worth supporting.
That’d be cool but I’m fine with buying the entire thing as they deserve it, but even more cool would be a cordless option.
Yeah, I think I read on some forum that a wireless model might be in the works. 🤞
The entire BOM is listed you can just 3d print it and build the internals directly.
The biggest hurdle is getting the PCB but you can just order from pcbway
I built and use my ploopy mouse daily. It’s exactly what I wanted.
It’s asking a lot to have people print and solder their own mice internals together, even with a parts list. I suppose making the chassis was already a bit of an ask as well, though.