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Luckily for me, this is successful!  It becomes clear which of the switch pads should carry positive voltage and which board connector wires relay the outgoing button signals.
Luckily for me, this is successful!  It becomes clear which of the switch pads should carry positive voltage and which board connector wires relay the outgoing button signals.
[[File:Mouse final jumpered top.jpg|thumb|Top jumper]]
[[File:Mouse final jumpered top.jpg|thumb|Top jumper|left]]
[[File:Mouse final jumpered back.jpg|thumb|Bottom jumper]]
In the end it only takes two additional wires to make the mouse fully functional.  I would put this hack firmly on the "I'll jam the satellite uplink with my hair clip" scale of electrical engineering, and the result is a fire hazard which I wouldn't feel comfortable letting anyone else use.  But it's good enough for me.  The top jumper looks especially scary since it attaches to an unusual hole cut in a ribbon cable, but both wires make me slightly queasy.
In the end it only takes two additional wires to make the mouse fully functional.  I would put this hack firmly on the "I'll jam the satellite uplink with my hair clip" scale of electrical engineering, and the result is a fire hazard which I wouldn't feel comfortable letting anyone else use.  But it's good enough for me.  The top jumper looks especially scary since it attaches to an unusual hole cut in a ribbon cable, but both wires make me slightly queasy.
[[File:Mouse final jumpered back.jpg|thumb|Bottom jumper]]
 
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