optical mouse motion sensor thread

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by nickec

I am hoping to use a laser mouse as a data acquisition sensor. A sub-revolution tachometer. Does this sound feasible?

No, at least not for FRC. Lasers are banned, without regard to the power output or the function.

[nickec]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

No, at least not for FRC. Lasers are banned, without regard to the power output or the function.

I apologize for not making clear that I am not a robot competition team member. I am an amateur scientist. When I saw the post involving optical mice, which predate laser mice, I was hoping to ask some questions of anyone who has done the kind of hardware and software work necessary to use a laser mouse for data acquisition.

The poster seemed to be saying that this work had been done. Namely direct hardware interface with the mouse DSP.

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by nickec

I apologize for not making clear that I am not a robot competition team member yet. I am an amateur scientist.

Nick -

I fixed your post for you. I'm sure that after looking around here a bit you'll find yourself joining or starting a team. There are a lot of interesting people and interesting ideas on this forum, and we are glad that you are joining it.