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Re: mouse
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:39:26 GMT
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 01:57:33 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Virginia
Campbell) wrote:

May I suggest looking at the inside of a computer mouse to get an idea
of how to let your rotation sensor know which direction the rotation is
spinning.

Personally, I've never been able to figure out just jow a mouse does
that, either :)

Jasper



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  Re: mouse
 
(...) You have a wheel with spokes and two sensors close to each other (relative to the spoke distance) - if the sensors go A pause B long pause A pause B then you are going one way, and if they go A long pause B pause A long pause B then you are (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: mouse
 
Quadrature encoding. Essentially, there are two light sensors on the rotating disk, which are placed at distance such that when you rotate one direction, you get the following two waveforms: -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -- and when you rotate (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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May I suggest looking at the inside of a computer mouse to get an idea of how to let your rotation sensor know which direction the rotation is spinning. -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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