sitting around all day wishing for top players to set scores on maps you like is the most cuckfaced thing you can do as a living human being in 2026. why do you need someone else to go do it? you can't get off your ass and do it yourself? "oh but im not good enough," you say. "yeah i cant fc her but you can go do that........ you can go dominate her with doubletime..... its not like i care... mrekk you're so cool.... i'll never be able to dt her like that... wow........" lock the fuck in. wake the fuck up. what are we even doing? putting bounties on maps for OTHER PEOPLE to fuck YOUR MAP and then you PAY THEM for it. this community is filled with utter sheeple who don't have the big balls to go out there and put belt to ass for scores themselves. stop wasting time dreamy-eyed waiting for lifeline to fuck your bitch. stop cheering when someone sets a score that's supposed to be yours. "ohhh mrekk... you're so big and strong........ you take her so well...." DELUSION please pick up the pen and play the game like you were meant to. godddddddddd

I started playing osu! in 2020 like many others, and I genuinely fell in love with the game. After playing the game a fair bit I reached my peak rank of ~13k in 2024. Unfortunately there's always been one thing holding me back: my inability to do streams longer than like 15 notes. This is not from a simple "skill issue", but because of an actual accident I had as a kid that kinda messed up my hand. When I was ~6yo I stuck my hand inside a closing elevator and my fingers got crushed. I somehow didn't break a single bone, but some muscles and nerves got messed up. Any time I start playing a map that is tapping heavy, 3 of my fingers start spasming to a point where I can't control their movement at all and need to pause the game. My only 2 fully functional fingers in my tapping hand are my pointer finger and thumb. I genuinely have no idea what to do, I want to improve, but when I tried switching to tapping with those 2 fingers it just felt soooo bad. I genuinely don't know what to do - maybe you guys have any ideas?

source: me

Hello!

Disclaimer: I don't actually play Osu! but given the fact that average latency a mouse unlike keyboards is often really good even on budget mouses, thought this might be something useful for you. If it is not, please downvote me so the moderators delete my post. Thank you!

First i need to tell you shortcomings of this project so you don't waste your time if these are dealbreakers for you: Depending on your mouse and it's sleep settings your first input might not register. There is 3 methods to go about the knobs to make them adjust volume, 2 of these allows them to be simple volume knobs: 1st is if your mouse software allows you to change the scroll up/down behavoirs, 2nd is a specific way of wiring that i go in more detail in the Doc but this method will press and release a button with each 'tick' of the rotary encoder so might cause false anti-cheat triggers, maybe there is better way to configure this with mouse macros i'm not sure. So the best method imo is the 3rd but then it will work like so: when you turn the knob it will scroll up/down, when you hold down and turn the knob it will adjust volume up/down.

I will be trying to make this guide beginner friendly as i can. Because i want to encourage everyone to make, mod and repair. I bet you can make something like this much better way using something like Arduino or Rapsberry Pi Pico 2W probably, but average user most likely will found it too complicated and hard. This will be very simple, maybe even your first step into tinkering and you will make much better one in the future! But from this point on i will have to assume you know the basics of soldering otherwise the guide will be too long and boring. If you don't know, you can watch a video to learn the basics. And please do, it will be awesome skill to have and think of all the money you can save and cool things you can do in future!

Recently my ATK A9 Plus mouse was in an accident so i had to salvage it by turning it into a fingertip mouse but the shape isn't for me. Then i saw a brand released tiny macropad with 3 buttons and 1 volume wheel in my local store but it didn't have wireless and felt very flimsy and overpriced so then i got this idea to make it one myself but better. At first i was going to make a make-shift knob using mouse's own encoder and a contraption and stuff but then when i go to my local store to buy sidecutters i saw these rotary encoders. So all the stars aligned in a way for me to make this and i wanted to share how to do one yourself with everyone.

There is million ways and configurations we can do this, so i will only be able to show you as like reference points and how i did it myself. But you can make whatever you want once you got the gist of how to. For example you can make something tiny that only has just 1 knob and nothing else or you can make something that has 10 buttons and 10 knobs using something like those MMO oriented mouses. It's up to your imagination. Also i think even if you don't want to do this project, some informations and softwares might be still useful for you, i encourage you to check it out.

What hardware you need:

+ Old/partially broken mouse that at least connects to your pc, mouse wheel encoder solder pads work and has at least 1 button that's remappable.

+ EC-11 or KY-040 rotary encoders with push buttons, these are very cheap components. And the rest of the exact tools i've used is found here.

What software you need:

+ Volumouse (by NirSoft, free, closed-source) you can get it from their website but make sure to scroll down and download it from the 'Download Volumouse x64 for manual installation (volumouse.zip)' option, otherwise it will not work. This allows us set rules and hotkeys to be able to use mouse wheels to adjust the volumes of either whole system and/or specific programs.

+ (Alternative) Volume² (by Alexandr Irza, free, partly open-source) you can get it from GitHub or if you want to support the developer they also have paid versions on Steam and Microsoft Store. This is similar to Volumouse but has tons of more other options and features. Though for this specific use case it has more limited options.

+ (Optional) Twinkle Tray (by Xander Frangos, free, open-source) you can get it from GitHub or Microsoft Store. Along with many features it let's you adjust your monitors brightness with hotkeys.

How to do it:

For the rest of the guide i've prepared a Google Doc with step by step instructions and detailed informations. This was my first time making something with it, please let me know if you see any mistakes so i can fix them.

You can access the Google Doc from here: Pompon Pad

English is not my first language and i only have a iPhone 6S. So if any part of this guide was hard to understand or see, feel free to ask in the comments. I will try my best to help!

I've spent long times to plan and test about this to make it work without affecting the actual mouse we will use. Hope in the end i was able to provide something useful! If you are interested in niche and not well known mods like this one about various other peripherals you can check my other posts.

Thank you for reading!

Bye bye!

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