January 30, 2006

Optical Mouse Hack

Mac Cody wanted to use the optical sensor of a standard optical mouse. He basically removed the built in processor from the system allowing him to interface directly to the Agilent (Avago) HDNS-2200 Solid State Optical Mouse LED Assembly Chip. He has plans to interface this in his robot designs. “The animated GIF image to the right shows a sequence of three images taken with the mouse sensor sitting on