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Article #1510Any Experience Using Mouse Electronics for Shaft Encoder?
From: Tom Griest
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:05
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:05
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Has anyone tried to take the electronics and mechanical setup from a mouse or trackball and use it for encoding shaft (motor) motion? It seems like a pretty cheap solution that could provide a simple serial interface to the computer. Since the mouse's electronics buffer the pulses, I would think it would prevent loss of motion. If it works, it would provide two-axis encoding for under $30. Tom
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Newsgroups: comp.robotics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!griest From: griest@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Tom Griest) Subject: Any Experience Using Mouse Electronics for Shaft Encoder? Message-ID: <1992Dec17.110526.27391@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: Software Engineering Institute Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:05:26 EST Lines: 8