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04-01-2009, 21:13

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Re: optical mouse motion sensor thread

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Originally Posted by Nibbles

framerate is too low for anything more then a foot per second (if you are lucky).

In a definitely unscientific experiment I wiggled my mouse about 6 inches at a rate of 'there-and-back' four times a second - about 4 FPS - and it seemed to track OK. Maybe it only tracked the ends (where I was moving slower as direction reversed). The link groves provided implied that it could be used - with modification - at fairly high (for a robot) speeds.

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