RE: Location Detection

All,


On a much smaller scale, I have been interested in using an optical mouse
sensor for odometry.  I ran into this article where a mouse was hacked just
for the sensor:
http://www.kronosrobotics.com/Anotes/Athena%20to%20Optical%20Mouse.pdf

 

It turns out that the sensor uses SPI for communications and almost every
controller around can do that.  I tried it with the KronosRobotics DIOS chip
and it works great.  I did not have success getting it to work with the
OOPic but that is probably my fault - or maybe not...

 

Richard

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