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Re: Another DIY sensor
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:30:25 GMT
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Martin <martin@mediax.comIHATESPAM>
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martin@&Spamcake&mediax.com
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Martin wrote:
> John Barnes wrote:
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> > 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?
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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 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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