Comments on: Optical mouse based scanner

By: lchvdlch

lchvdlch — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:36:52 +0000

The original link is not available (404), but I guess I found the new one here http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye

By: elias deeb

elias deeb — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:43:50 +0000

hello guys
does any one know how to use an optical mouse to measure the speed of the surface? please let me know if you can. thanks

By: Paul d\'Aoust

Paul d\'Aoust — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:39:11 +0000

what folder do I put that dll in? I don’t have a “system32″ folder in my /usr/lib…

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:28:08 +0000

I’ve been looking at it from useful standpoints. First, it can be used as a means to measure the speed of a rotating shaft. I’ve also seen it used already in robotics (scanning the ground) to determine motion and position. I also was thinking about using it for medical purposes. If a bright LED is shone through one’s finger, and the point of focus is set under the skin, I suspect this part may have a focal point under the skin. If I could get a cross section of a blood vessel and then if the autocorrelation function can detect the motion of blood through the vessels, it might give both cross section and blood velocity (might need to use audio to detect that with autocorrelation). However, it might be possible to get both the mechanical waveform of the heart (from which it might be possible to extract the ECG from the heart) and it might also be possible to measure blood pressure. Imagine a single finger attachment that gives you pulse-ox, ECG AND blood pressure. Now the medical community would love nothing better than to never have to use a pressure cuff again or to have to attach electrodes to someone’s hairy chest. If you’ve ever had to spend time hooked up to an automated pressure cuff, you know how hard it is to sleep with it on. Definitely a medical breakthrough. Worth experimenting with.
-D

By: bigjermini

bigjermini — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:01:58 +0000

WHY DOES EVERYBODY SAY THE SAME THING ABOUT THIS HACK/MOD?
“Its useless, might be good for bots, why would you want to?” or some other electronic/computer related saying or put down. ive seen this same guy with the same mod on different sites. i tried it and let me tell ya i personally got an astonishing amount of detail by scanning my skin i didn’t even know could be done with 15 bucks. so noww somebody else think MEDICAL PURPOSE! 100points to sprite_tm!

By: ian

ian — Thu, 04 May 2006 19:39:55 +0000

Nice project. Wondering if it be possible to combine this with some OCR software and access to an online dictionary to make a cheap handheld translator. I have seen translator pens like that see http://www.wizcomtech.com/ but they are quite expensive.

By: papalatiolais

papalatiolais — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:24:38 +0000

wow! simple yet pretty cool. i decided to open up an old optical mouse i had lying around the house. it’s a microsoft intellimouse and has a 16 pin chip. i’m a noob at this stuff but decided to give it a shot anyway to see what results i could get. i’m just having trouble finding info on the chip to figure out the pins and their relativity to the ones in the guide. if anyone has a suggestions send to papalatiolais@hotmail.com. thanks in advance.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:30:01 +0000

?!?!?! Absolutly pointless but cool. Can u put a better CCD in it? It is really crappy quality. Do you guys not mod anything? Whats next a bluetooth toilet? With a usb 4 charging your ipod?

By: jajoah

jajoah — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:31:02 +0000

artbird309, the software can be found at http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/projects/mouseeye/readmouse.zip

By: artbird309

artbird309 — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:21:01 +0000

can i have the software or what is a link to it thanks artbird309 [at] gmail [dot] com.

By: artbird309

artbird309 — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:14:01 +0000

can i have the software or what is a link to it thanks artbird309 [at] gmail [dot] com.

By: artbird309

artbird309 — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:44:25 +0000

can i have the software or what is a link to it thanks artbird309 [at] gmail [dot] com.

By: golmaal

golmaal — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:03:33 +0000

Hi,
Can it be modified to become a barcode scanner?
It would be grand!

By: cold_ion

cold_ion — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:58:16 +0000

The scanner was just a fun demonstration of the technology. What

By: Wim L

Wim L — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:17:31 +0000

that rules! The Agilent datasheet describes some other fun stuff that can be read out from the sensor chip (nothing quite as cool as the image itself though).

The next step is to replace the mouse’s probably-OTP usb interface with a MC68HC908JB8 or PIC16C745, so you can read stuff out over the normal USB connection, and add some motors also controlled by the