Optical Mouse Navigation

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Originally Posted by NoRemorse

I'll admit that I did read almost any of that post, but... I had this idea last year. We ruled out that idea becuse of one main reason: The maximum rate of speed that the mouse can mesure was well under the speed of our robot. That might be somthing to look into if your thinking about a mouse for navigation.

If you had bothered to read Mr. Putnam's excellent presentation, you would have noticed that the problem is solved by raising the mouse off the ground and the addition of some optics. Furthermore, if the PAK-XI chip is allowed, it can supposedly adjust the resolution of the mouse it's connected to. The chip isn't anything special either, and any coprocessor based solution could do this. (Some?) Mice are programmable.