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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

Did anyone use a optical mouse? From what I understand, besides needing a lense setup to give it any range, it only has 12 ips with a 1 to 1 lense ratio as set by NASA (http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Oct05/NPO_40173.html). I guess this should be odometers in general.

I was looking into it. It doesnt seem hard to setup, apart from the focusing e.t.c. I personally have no clue as how to convert the output into something that the RC can read. But we have a couple fo great programming mentors who should be able to do something about it. If we have a team next year we might try it.