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Re: New wheels / floor and encoders for position.

The hard part of using the mouse is interfacing to it. The new controller doesn't have any USB inputs on the Robot side, so you would either have to add a microcontroller or learn the PS/2 standard.

Alternatively, you can poke directly into the chip inside the mouse. There is no guarantee that this is a standard protocol - each vendor can use their own. This is the route we chose.