I had an application where a mouse wheel was perfect for the user input.
Unfortunately I could never find them as components.
Wound up buying a stack of compute mice on closeout for $1 or $2 each to get them.

Are they available now or do you rob them out of old mice?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jinx <joecolquitt@clear.net.nz>
>Sent: Sep 28, 2006 10:58 PM
>To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>Subject: Re: [PIC] Calendar/clock

<snip>

>Interface is how you set the time/alarms and display and
>I/O driving. To make things easy you'll need possibly an LCD
>and a few buttons. This could be detachable and used only
>for setting registers. The simplest solution for navigating through
>a menu system, selecting items and changing them IMHO would
>most probably be a mouse wheel and an Enter button



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