MAKE MagazineMAKE is a quarterly publication from O'Reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. It's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want.HOW TO - ESD removal mouse- September 17, 2008 A simple and helpful idea - David added a ground contact to his mouse. I work a lot with ESD sensitive stuff - ICs, transistors and other devices. And that means - if I don't wanna kill em all I need to discharge often - which is quite annoying. But I happen to work with a computer, and a standard input device - the mouse. Which gave me a nice idea - use the Ground connection of the mouse to discharge me. Makes a lot of sense for those searching the web for datasheets and identifying ICs...http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/how_to_esd_removal_mouse.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B4898489... |