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