I finally have something to say and registered, it seems my OCD for computers ' and its peripherals' performance have a use!
Anyways, about mice: I was very ecstatic after I saw the first ever precise and quantified mouse benchmark published on esreality.com
http://www.esreality.com/?a=longpost&id=1265679
In short, All mouses ARE NOT created equal, even if they are optical, laser, wireless, wired, high DPI. Many generic mouses(in my opinion) have a very low what esreality terms "malfunction speed", a maximum threshold speed when the mouse begins to report very inaccurate changes in position causing the cursor to seemingly go crazy or unresponsive. Luckily there are some very good mice made years ago that are still even one of the best today.
this benchmark was done in 2006
http://www.esreality.com/?a=longpost&id=1265679&page=21
This page shows all the mice and their perfect control and malfunction speeds on a graph.The best are the mx500 and mx300 capable of performing at 4 m/s if the usb polling rate is overclocked to 1000hz from 125hz; i'm not sure if the robot controller can do that.. I also have an mx518 that may be able to perform at those speeds according to this post
http://forums.logitech.com/logitech/...17117#M17 117
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Originally Posted by nickmagus
I looked extensively in to optical mice last year however they do not work at high enough speeds to be feasible (even for this challenge) if you find one fast enough please inform me but the best i could get was ~5ft/s before it losses all idea of whats going on.
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Maybe the mx500, mx300, mx518, a4tech x7
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Originally Posted by jgraber
If a laser mouse uses a real laser, you should search the rules for the word laser.
I was pleased to see that my idea of using an optical mouse had already been thought of, and even tried, and found to be not effective at speeds > 5f/s. Now I don't have to spend the time to try it myself.
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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo
... One post mentioned using an optical mouse - my MS optical mouse seems pretty reliable at 1/16" off the desk surface, but it would probably get quickly dirty on a FIRST field. ...
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hmm what do you mean by getting dirty? how?