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Subject: 
RE: optical mouse chips as vision sensors?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:09:39 GMT
Original-From: 
Mike Payson <mpayson@dawgdayz.comNOSPAM>
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One other interesting thing about this idea-- If it works, not only will
you get the optical sensor, but you can probably get up to 5 touch sensors
and a rotation sensor at the same time. I'm not sure how the signal is
sent, but will the RCX be able to differentiate between these on a single
port? Or, could you hook it up to two ports & set them up to work together?

At 07:04 PM 6/30/02 +0000, you wrote:
> 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
> 
> > 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?
 
This whole thread just caused an interesting thought to pop into my head, although I suspect it would only apply to cases where LegOS were being used. If the mouse serial port output (transmit line) were to be connected to a LMC555 (running at (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
  RE: optical mouse chips as vision sensors?
 
(...) What about using a cordless mouse? One could fiddle withthe optical problems first and could use the normal IR tower to send position information to the RCX. Michael (24 years ago, 1-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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