Dr. Tom Tilley has brought the mechanism from Bust-A-Move to life using cardboard, a servo, and help from an Arduino.

His Arduino skills were honed with that installation and used during the development of this mouse. Also joining in the prototyping fun was a 3D printer used to make the parts.

The old adage that you’ll make a fortune by developing a better mouse trap is not super realistic, as the engineers behind Sony’s Betamax video tape standard could tell you. However, yo… ...