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RE: optical mouse chips as vision sensors?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 2 Jul 2002 00:57:56 GMT
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Original-From:
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Bruce Boyes <bboyes@systronix.com^Spamcake^>
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At 01:24 AM 7/2/2002 +0200, Laszlo Meszaros (ETH) wrote:
> Keep in mind that the optical mouse chip detects skidding of the mouse
> forward - backward - left - right. When fixed on the bottom of a lego
> car it will never send signals about moving left and right. As fine as
> I can emulate a lego car-like movement with my optical mouse it sends
> only forward and backward movement signals.
>
> In spite of this limitation, it's a good idea. I have checked the mouse
> on the laminated floor in kids room and works fine. However, my optical
> mouse was about $60 so I would not disassemble yet...
We're checking into buying the parts from Agilent and making a plug on
sensor for JCX -- which will finally ship late this summer.
I wonder about using a white LED and RGB filters on three sensors, then
you'd get color information too. Useful to distinguish between wood,
carpet, etc.
If we can get some parts we can put together some prototypes for
feasability testing pretty quickly. I'll post any interesting developments
here.
At Tigerdirect.com they have Brand-X mice for $15
Bruce
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