I was bored a few weeks ago and took on a little crafty project.
I got this fancy new Logitech g-15 mouse a few months back, and I really liked how it flanged out to hold your thumb, but I thought it was a design oversight not to do the same for your ring finger and pinky. Enter an idle bageled.
After learning the hard way that plastic mouse covers shrink in the oven(happily logitech asks no questions when you ring up and ask for a new one) I knew that I needed to make a oven bakable mouse analogue, since I would be making my mouse cover out of FIMO, oven bakable PVC clay.
So first I got my man place.(I built the bench out of the remains of a carefuly removed internal wall at my factory)
Than I got a pile of plasticine and filled in the empty places in the the mouse cover.
Then I got some liquid latex rubber. I applied 25 coats, which sounds like a lot, but with a hair drier in helping, it took about an hour.
This left me with a very cool latex negative of the mouse.
Next I made a mother mould out of more plasticine($5 buys a lot of plasticine) to support the latex mould, and make sure it holds it's shape and is level.
Then a bit of plaster of paris.
I went to the movies, and when I came back, I peeled out a plaster cast of the the mouse.
I then built a hand shaped ergonomic shape to fit over the mouse that is perfectly shaped to my hand. I threw that in the over for about 20 minutes at 115 degrees.
And now I have a mouse that looks like it is covered in blutac, and is uber comfortable.
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