Re: Location Detection

Great PDF, thanks. That article proves to me that an optical mouse 
input is not only feasible, it's relatively easy. I would imagine that 
with a little bit of power regulation, you could connect that to the 
GPIOs on the gumstix and have a lot of fun.
--
Jeremy Grosser
www.runemonkey.com


On Jul 9, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Richard T. Stofer wrote:

> 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
>
> <winmail.dat>



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