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Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:51:43 GMT
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PeterBalch <peterbalch@^IHateSpam^compuserve.com>
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Message text written by INTERNET:sjbaker1@airmail.net

I was wondering whether one of those new fancy optical mice which use a • tiny
camera to watch the motion of your desktop might be adapted with a • suitable
lens to track the motion of a robot.

What a good idea.

Does anyone know how they work and where to get the chips?

Peter



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
 
(...) Out of a mouse? Simon, expert at stating the obvious. (22 years ago, 29-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
 
(...) <blush> (...) Well, where you get the chips is you pull apart a mouse these mice are pretty cheap these days. The software and control logic is all inside the mouse - they don't have any special drivers in the PC. Hence, the protocol is the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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