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Re: Another DIY sensor
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:30:25 GMT
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Martin <MARTIN@MEDIAX.antispamCOM>
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Martin wrote:

John Barnes wrote:

That reminds me. A while ago now, someone here suggested trying
out the guts of one of those ball-less optical mice as the basis for
a sensor to watch the floor go by under the robot. Did that get
anywhere? Does anyone even know how those things work? Are
they still $50?


Those cameras have a small, low-resolution CCD in them, and they take
snapshots of the mousing surface and compare them to detect the
quantity of motion.

If you were going to use one of those mice your best bet would be to
put together a sensor interface using a PIC chip to simply interface
with PS/2. Then you could also get some touch sensors out of it (IE,
the mouse buttons.) But the electronics on the inside are unlikely to
give you pulses back out, except in the form of serial port data (IE,
PS/2, which is more or less an RS-232 port at 5 volts rather than
+12/-12.)

Oh, and I forgot to mention, you won't get rotation out of a PS/2
interface. It does (primarily) +x, +y, and however many button events.



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(...) Those cameras have a small, low-resolution CCD in them, and they take snapshots of the mousing surface and compare them to detect the quantity of motion. If you were going to use one of those mice your best bet would be to put together a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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