Last year I decided to support the action RPG Path of Exile by Grinding Gear Games. During pre-open beta I paid $100 for a "Silver Supporter Pack". This video is my unboxing of the contents of the supporter pack.
The package included a letter from Chris Wilson, a Path of Exile Install DVD, soundtrack CD and a huge poster of the world map. I'm happy to have supported PoE during pre-open beta (plus I now have lots of cool PoE stuff!). Keep up the good work GGG!
If your looking to fix or repair your Logitech G400 (or simply want to see someone else disassemble it) than this video is for you. This video is a full disassembly and reassembly of the Logitech G400 (the new version of the MX518).
The reason I did this video is I want to eventually lighten my G400 from the standard 106g down to the same weight as my favorite mouse the Razer Diamondback which weighs in at 91g.
I also talk about how I fixed my Razer Diamondback's scroll wheel problem as well as how I was able to lighten my E-Blue (E-3lue) Cobra Junior by 19g so it ended up at a very light 76g.
While I didn't find any easy ways to lighten the mouse (mostly due to it being built like a tank) I did get some ideas on ways I could lighten it as well as a really good look at how the mouse was built.
If you ever wanted to see any of the parts inside this legendary mouse it is very likely it is in this video some where.
Nothing feels exactly like the classic Razer Diamondback but the Cobra Junior is damn close. Overall the E-3lue Cobra Junior has almost exactly the same feel as my Razer Diamondback. I bought this E-3lue Cobra Junior on eBay for $12 with free shipping.
From what I could gather from teh packaging and reading online when considering purchasing the Cobra Junior it seems to have a button that switches the DPI between 400/800/1600. The Razer Diamondback runs at 1600 and so far the tracking seems very similar when I (hopefully) have the Cobra Junior at 1600 DPI.
How does the shape of the Razer Diamondback it was replacing? Surprisingly close. I was amazed at how close this mouse feels to my Razer Diamondback. The Diamonback is was clearly the "inspiration" for the Cobra Junior.
In this unboxing I was only able to cover the external feel of the mouse. I haven't used the mouse yet so I have no information on how well it actually will hold up. I will likely do another video on how it is in use if I end up using it a lot.
If you want to buy a Cobra Junior, the eBay auction I found was entitled "E-Blue Cobra 1600DPI Adjustable 6 Buttons USB Wired Optical Gaming Mouse Mice PC" by the seller "newlaunch".
You can also find it on Amazon by searching for "E-Blue Cobra Junior". The Amazon price at the time of this video was around $13 but you also have to pay shipping.
Both mice weighed almost exactly the same on my kitchen scale right around 91g.
This photo album and instructions for my second project for making an iPod Shuffle fit inside a pair of headphones was originally posted on my now defunct mac.com site back in 2005. Thanks to Archive.org I am now able to resurrect it. You can find the page as it originally looked (more or less) here. I've also tried to leave the original typography/layout intact as much as possible. Unfortunately is seems the higher resolution images didn't seem to survive and I had to cludge the HTML tables a bit to fit. You can find the flickr set for these images here. (Appears my Flickr Pro ran out.) I uploaded higher resolution images to an imgut album here. Head past the jump for a blast from the past. NOTE: The images below look like the have links to something but in fact they simply link back to this post. Apologies. Resurrecting the dead isn't perfect. I uploaded higher resolution images to the imgur album Jim Younkin's Shufflephones Ver. 2.0.
This photo album and instructions for making an iPod Shuffle fit inside a pair of retro headphones was originally posted on my now defunct mac.com site in 2005. Thanks to Archive.org I am now able to resurrect it. You can find the page as it originally looked (more or less) here. I've also tried to leave the original typography/layout intact as much as possible. Unfortunately is seems the higher resolution images didn't seem to survive and I had to cludge the HTML tables a bit to fit. You can find the flickr set for these images here. (Appears my Flickr Pro ran out.) I uploaded higher resolution version to an imgur album here. (Phillip Torrone from Make Magazine even commented on this photo.) Head past the jump for a blast from the past. NOTE: The images below look like the have links to something but in fact they simply link back to this post. Apologies. Resurrecting the dead isn't perfect. I uploaded higher resolution versions of the images to the imgur album Jim Younkin's Shufflephones Ver. 1.0.
