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Re: optical mouse chips as vision sensors?
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Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:54:19 GMT
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check out http://www.robogeeks.com/mousehack.htm

Bruce Boyes <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
5.1.0.14.2.20020629111459.00b4a278@mail.xmission.com...
http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/features/2002jun19_opticalmice.html

Agilent makes the optical mice components and has shipped over 12 million.
The link above has some explanation of how they work. It's an interesting
idea to see if these could be adapted for robotics.

Bruce






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  RE: optical mouse chips as vision sensors?
 
And then check out the language he used to hack into the mouse data stream....yep it's FORTH. Not surprising as New Micros Inc was one of the first vendors of single board computers with Forth as the control language... Cheers, Ralph (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  optical mouse chips as vision sensors?
 
(URL) makes the optical mice components and has shipped over 12 million. The link above has some explanation of how they work. It's an interesting idea to see if these could be adapted for robotics. Bruce (22 years ago, 29-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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