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[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by phrontist

UPDATE: Looking at some PDFs on their site, it would seem the particular chip I'm looking at outputs PS/2 directly! Was this the case with yours?

We've seen both types. The ones we mainly used contained a ADNS2610 chip which only does the sync serial. The other one we saw had 2 interfacecs, either PS/2 or good old quadrature output. If you have trouble with the PS/2 and don't want to try the sync serial to the Agilent chip, you could always use the quadrature output. That's really easy to decode.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

We've seen both types. The ones we mainly used contained a ADNS2610 chip which only does the sync serial. The other one we saw had 2 interfacecs, either PS/2 or good old quadrature output. If you have trouble with the PS/2 and don't want to try the sync serial to the Agilent chip, you could always use the quadrature output. That's really easy to decode.

Quadrature! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

That's the geekiest thing I've ever said.

[Conor Ryan]

has anyone ever had a steering wheel as a control system, kind of like the kind of wheel you'd use in a racing game of sort, with a pedal for an accelerator