Making my Dream Gaming Mouse 

I don’t see anyone in the tech scene with the same level of aesthetics, creativity and pvp skills as your channel keep going man

As an industrial design engineer I can say that you did an amazing job the whole process. Love to see an upgraded version of the design.

People like you and DIY Perks are insane, not only in quality but the actual engineering and effort behind your work. So underrated and slept on.

"I want to make the ideal gaming mouse!" *removes extra buttons *removes scroll wheel

Bro thats too light for your muscels

You're insane. Great job!

There are so many objects I interact with on the daily which I think about redesigning. I applaud your efforts in taking the next steps and actually committing, Loved it!

I think people underestimate your brilliance and its astonishing to see what someone so intelligent is capable of. Keep up the good work mate.

Will be interesting to see what kind of modifications you end up doing with the future iterations, amazing video.

Oh my word this is yet another example of just how inspirational a short 15 minutes or so video can be. Amazing job of helping me to stay motivated and excited about what's possible with a little bit of thought, dedication to master some tools and then commitment to put those skills and that knowledge into making something really cool. I'm new to your channel but already I'm a massive fan and this is one of my top 3 favourite channels to learn from. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing projects with those of us with much less knowledge and more to learn. Please keep making your incredible videos. ps. I also like some other channels but I don't care whether somebody went to a private school or comes from the streets, for me it's about what they do in this space and whether the content is high quality. I hear what others have commented and agree that there are also other high calibre content creators and yes I also enjoy those other channels but I think this channel has something very unique and really quite special (and no I'm not a sponsor, I just love tech, I love software, being a developer, a graphic artist, 3D modelling and also an animator I get a buzz from watching somebody else utilise a really good mix of skills to produce something really cool). Sorry if anyone found this to be a bit of a ramble

This is taking "Fine, I'll do it myself" to the next level. Thanks for sharing the whole process and keep pumping out the great content! Also, any chance you're sharing the build files?

Love this video. I'm a third year Mechanical Engineering major and the prototyping process was one of the hardest lessons I had to learn. I would get so drawn into trying to plan the perfect first design that I would never actually build it, and it led to so much unnecessary stress and effort. Turns out, just making a very bare bones proof of concept works great. Don't give it too much thought, just make sure it works. Once that's done, do the rest by feel. The method you landed on in the end was exactly correct. Mess around with it for a few minutes/hours and see what feels good and what feels bad. Work from there. Keep up the great work!

Very cool. The HSK 4k Pro would be the closest option on the market to what you created. It's fingertip, Weighs only 29 grams, and has 4k Hz polling rate.

Man he is just on another level

Damn, first it was custom PCs, then custom keyboards, and now custom mice?! When will we be getting custom monitors? 😅

I was not only amazed by the mouse but also the overwatch gameplay! I was not expecting this high level of skill that montage was actually really amazing

This is an incredible first effort, not only is the mouse fully functional, it works at an extremely high level of gameplay! Absolutely insane, i look forwards to your future efforts

When trying to remove old solder it can be good to apply some fresh solder &/or flux(i use flux core solder). it will help melt the old solder and clean up much nicer. And if you are really worried you might burn or damage the pcb you can lower the temp pretty far when trying to desolder. I start around 280c. The mouse seems great. Love this project. cant wait to see more revisions.

Thank you for emphasizing the safety necessary in resin printing. I’d love for more people to be interested in it, but I want them to know what they’re getting into and be safe. This vid like all the others is amazing. Looking forward to the update on this mouse.

The yellow wire on the heavier LiPo is most likely a thermistor. If you rip it open, you could extract that thermistor and add it to your other LiPo

The resin printing and design process was great to watch. The ability to fine-tune the final design to cater to what was only necessary was sick.

This man’s obsession and attention to detail with his aesthetics somehow just inspire me to do better

Wow, dude! It's rare I see something DIY on tech channels that makes me go "wow, that's amazing" anymore, but this actually really is! Awesome work!

If you're having trouble removing solder, apply flux to it before heat, it's a night and day difference.

Man I hope this channel keeps growing. Really high quality honest content!

The next thing to experiment with is different resins for your print, specifically there are “tough resins“ that will dramatically strengthen the print and make it more flexible and less likely to break. You can mix those specialty resins with regular colors, glow in the dark, or all kinds of other possibilities.

That's crazy overkill and I love it. Rapid prototyping at it's best.

Dude your content is actually insane. So much improvement over the years with the best ideas which captivate me throughout the whole time of me watching your channel. Keep up the content man, your channel does wonders to keep me entertained and learning about the tech within my favourite hobby.

Honestly, this tech channel is my favorite. Even if I ignore the fact I love sfx PCs, the video quality is just stunning for every video. The ideas/topics are all logical/reasonable and well presented too.

this man just keeps on leveling up the custom possibilities in the pc space absolute mad lad

Damn, you're crazy going to these extremes. I love it.

I am ready to buy it! Already using for V2 PRO for months and what I can say, its the BEST gaming mouse i ever used!! Please make it dream come true and sell those 3D printed shells!!!

Quite literally Optimum Tech haha! You're 100% best tech utuber hands down. Everything you do is bleeding edge I love it! Keep it up man!

Your channel is exactly what i ever wanted to see, or do myself in gaming peripherals scene! Thank you for your work! Maybe next time consider building Azeron like keypad with analog switches? :)

Loved this idea but had no printer so butchered a spare Aerox 5 I had. Got it to 38g, not crazy light, but still got multiple side buttons. It's the biggest difference maker a peripheral change has ever made for me. Would be interesting to see something like what you've done here but keeping at least 1 side button. Big hats off, it's great work

Honestly, I was kicking my feet out of excitement when I saw this video in my feed. Great video with clear segments, super easy to follow and the mouse turned out insane.

Damn that’s really impressive you just made your own mouse. That’s very cool. Looks like it paid off with those insane head shots.

This shape is bizarre, very cool project!

I nominate the name Viper Shed for this project. Hope it either develops into an open source project, or one you can buy. Would love to try it out myself. This honestly makes me want to get into 3D printing finally.

there is no other tech youtuber with this level of creativity, this is one of the best videos i’ve seen

Really nice vid. I like those project driven vids with lots of insides.

This is so cool :0 Seeing people slowly becoming mouse enthusiasts are cool imo It's like keyboard enthusiasts lol

your content just keeps getting better. bravo dude!

oouuf, the mechanical keyboard sound effect when typing out the text at 0:03

Subscribing for this, your mice may not look like much but we need more people experimenting on hardware big time so companies can take note of what people actually want Also the bare minimum kinda design is just very unique

Absolutely insane! And your production as well as content quality keeps going up too

Dude this is probably the best video you've every done. Your passion and developing skills are just unreal. It would have been so satisfying playing with the mouse and absolutely owning!! Keep up the great content!!

That is real engineering process right there. Great job.

Me: Cries in laptop trackapad

Fantastic video, not just the idea/topic, but also the b roll and editing

Next step : carbon fiber forearm

Man I’m not only amazed of your videos and gameplay, but also of your level of intelligence and readiness to share what’s going on in your mind. You seem to live a very cool life combining your interests and hobby with your personal interests. You are a very cool person, wish you the best for future

Big fan of your work, by chance will you ever upload the STL files for this mouse?

The only step forward I can think of, besides continuing to refine ultra-lightweight mice, is to have a touchpad the size of a mousepad of insanely high fidelity and good multi-finger tracking. Though it'd come with a learning curve, as really the only way to make it function as point and click simultaneously is to use multi-finger, say middle for drag and index for click. The only issue would be how to discern individual fingers, and I think that's where palm rejection would be useful, as you can build a kinematic model between the portion of the palm being rejected and your fingertips. I think this could be a viable solution at some point, it just needs development and refinement, plus some cool things could come out if it; such as for casual use, your palm could be the pointer function, which could open up per-fingertip uses, such as middle finger being right click and scroll (hold and drag), and ring, pinky, and thumb could have macros attached to them, the kinematic model could also introduce per-finger zoning such as the retention of the thumb having two auxiliary buttons, different amounts of finger extension and flexion (the amount of curl to your finger between the three joints) could have different functions within a linear sense, though abduction and adduction would be harder to track due to overlap outside of what the thumb and pinky can extend to. It's also not an impossible idea, you just need a touch device of the correct size (the largest issue) and fidelity (potentially another large issue), along with good on-board software (an issue that's easy to work around) with a decent response rate (potentially another large issue, touchpad ICs are commonly per-device chips, so there's not exactly a market for these, entirely dissimilar to the situations with microcontrollers that communicate with the host); the only further issue I can think of is skin sticking to various surfaces, though there's probably a very simple way around this with various materials. I'm surprised some niche company hasn't tried developing this, I know desktop trackpads have had very niche markets in the past but this goes beyond just scaling up a laptop trackpad, and the closest thing I can think of currently is that strange PC gamepad that has an overly large trackpad for the thumb, the IFYOO GTP01/DarkWalker ShotPad, though its featureset isn't amazing and overall design in physical aspects, hardware, and software is lackluster at best.

Bro forgor ergonomics 💀

Super fascinating video! Please keep up the awesome work! I'm excited to see where this project goes.

I’m actually so hecking impressed with literally everything here. I know the work that goes into something like this and it’s crazy how far this man is able to push things.

Thanks for sharing your process. Very fun to learn and watch.

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how is this guy so buff, nice hair , such skil land talent and still managing to click heads at that level. does he not sleep or something

its got no scroll wheel

This video is nothing short of amazing. Wow.

As an industrial designer, this is awesome!

this is one of the coolest youtube videos ive seen in many years. very cool to see

super duper hyped for the progress on this project🔥🔥

Next time: "I'm building my gaming mouse inside my hand." Your playing style is insane even with this weird-looking design 😂

Do you think you could do an updated review on other niche pinch grip mice like hsk now that pinch grip is your main aim style? Been binge watching your videos man easily my new favorite channel!

replace the scroll wheel for a slide potentiometer. With every increment down it adds one left click per second, right click for up, springs to keep it centered.

Why could noone be making them?? Because they are cringe 😭

okay now this is getting crazy, this is nutz concept and came together insanely wow just wow

You have INSANE aim

small mice are underrated. Would buy something like this asap

Insane mod, well done! It does look sus without the shell at all tho ^_^

Always love your content and this one is no exception. Love watching the design and prototyping process. Thanks man!!!

Insanely cool. Love the original design.

Ive never seen a tech youtuber that is crazy at games too LOL, ur tracer is great GG bro

I'm simply just amazed by those widow shots

Cover it with transparent rezin, will protect it against water, looks futuristic and its cool to experiment, 30g is pretty too light as i accidently lift meny times my Razer deathader v3 pro as it weights only 62 grams and has up to 90hours of autonomy with that 30K sensor

Optimum Tech is the best tech youtuber out there, how does he not have 1 million subs already

If someone tells this guy about coachbuilding it’s over for Pininfarina and Bertone

up next: surgically removing flesh and bones for a lighter hand

Very cool. Not an easy project to get right, and a very neat personalisation idea.

Just a thought: The "grip" of your mousepads surface might make your mouse feel heavier. As mousepads for gaming usually have some sort of resistance to give you control.

very impressive, but honestly, at this point, why not just strap a wireless mouse to your arm, take out the optical sensor and triggers, solder some longer wires to them, attach the sensor to your ring finger, and put the triggers upside down on your index and middle fingers? that'd essentially be a weightless wireless mouse then, no? and you could maybe print a little chunk of plastic similar in shape to the frame of the mouse in the video if you want to "hold" something

This is honestly the way forward, mouse shapes are SO subjective. If you have the resources to do this it has to be worth, imagine man you could make the ONLY 4k hz palm grip

Bro that introduction gives me chills

You are truly amazing, gifted. You deserved all the success you have !

Hey optimum, any chance you could send the file for the 3d print? I’d be interested in doing this myself. I could send you any notes or critiques I have if that would help.

I recommend coating the pcb (if it isnt already) in clear coat or resin. being this exposed the risk of water damage it is really high.

You are def. onto something here. Finger-tip grip has definitely been neglected. And the closest thing to it has always been "small-hands/pink-tax" stuff. So clearly, when it comes to fingertip grip, most companies are totally missing the point.

adding some touch sensors can fulfill scroller criteria too

You made me want to try overwatch with how sick those headshots are, but I know i'd just suck and I don't need another ragey competitive game in my life lol.

Why not just strap mouse switches to your fingers ?

He’s reached DIYperks tier

I wonder when we'll get personalized gloves with teflon stickers on fingertips with integrated switches, so you could glide your mouse on the table and that would translate to perfectly smooth movement of the cursor, and pushing fingers into the table would act as a mouse button... because who needs a scroll wheel anyway, right? Awesome project! Thanks for sharing!

this was so cool, just like the channel name optimum tech your are optimizing design. waiting for your final design and im sure some companies gonna "steal" your idea.

Cool stuff. Definitely the closer you can get to just your hand the more free it can feel to aim. While still retaining decent shape for sure. I'd like to see more companies make good shape mice with carbon fiber option and/or magnesium alloy, sans the perforations. It will be more premium and still very light.

the curing process for resin post processing will typically shrink thinner parts quite substantially especially when precision is the goal

This content just keeps getting better and better, im just amazed at this point😅

That widow clip at 9:45 was insane wtf! Also nice mouse :)