Mouse fuss around statics

Outside the window, the green color slowly gave way to white, the atmosphere in the rooms became dry and electrified. How can we save our warm and gently rumbling pets from the terrible static, ready to destroy their terabytes and gigahertz? I want to share one rather old (I did this, if my memory serves me, about 15 years ago), but this is no less effective way.

So, the question is - what is the most often you grab first, sitting down to your computer? I suggest: a cup of tea and a cigarette are the wrong answers. The correct answer is a small red-eyed rodent. So let us call for help this modest desktop worker. You understand that not every mouse will suit us, the options with bluetooth and other radio are regretfully set aside.


In addition to the mouse, we will need a few more things:

• A small soldering iron - once you read this blog, you probably know which side it is taken for.
• 5 cm stranded wire, I used MGTF, but with no less success you can take one of the veins of a patch ezernet consisting of several thin wires
• A 50kΩ-10MΩ resistor can be picked out from any old board. Output pins will fit (then use the Color Table to determine the denomination), and SMD - their denomination is indicated as three digits, look for one that has the last digit of 3, 4 or 5. The USB connector got on the photo specifically so that you I imagined what I would have to solder.
  
• A piece of scotch

So, everything is prepared for work, we perform an autopsy of the patient:

Then pay attention to the wire that connects the mouse to the computer. With high probability, this string will contain black wires or a bundled shield wire:

We carefully examine the printed circuit board to make sure that it is an earthen wire. If the Chinese pedigree of the mouse is not very striking, you will notice that this guide is much wider than the others. We find on it a conveniently located contact pad and solder one end of the resistor. Do not worry if the resistor will lie on other conductors - the green garbage on the board (in fact, it is called the “solder mask”, but I will turn on the “blonde mode” for accessibility) is quite strong and non-conductive. Solder our piece of wire to the second contact of the resistor, pre-stripping it.

Everything is ready, now the most difficult part of the work is to assemble everything so that there is no extra detail left and the mouse works normally. A real fluffy ponytail stays on the outside - now it is growing on the right side of the mouse!

It remains to fluff fur on it and secure with scotch:

Now, just touching the mouse, all the static electricity you have accumulated through the current limiting resistor will slowly (but rather quickly) flow into the country of eternal dreams. Of course, extremals and masochists can do without a current-limiting resistor, but this is, as they say, an amateur.
Well, for a good mood anecdote to the topic:
Rides on the road fuel truck. Stops his traffic cop. He inspects carefully, goes around, looks for something to find fault with. Suddenly notices the chain. He took the lead:
- Why chain?
Drove begins to explain: static electricity, gasoline, a spark, the danger of an explosion, grounding, all that ... The traffic cop listens attentively, then interrupts:
- I understand everything, but why the chain?
The driver of the fuel truck starts again: static, spark, gasoline ...
Traffic cop:
- what are you talking about spark? Tell me why the chain!
In desperation, the driver of the tank truck catches a taxi passing by and rushes to the taxi driver:
- Brother, help me, you explain to this gaytsu why I have a chain on my gas tanker!
The taxi driver cuts through the situation and tells the traffic cop:
- Yesterday a new decree came out, everyone ride with chains.
A traffic cop brightens his face:
- Oh, the decree ... I see. Fuel truck - free! - and turns to the taxi driver: - Why are you without a chain ?!