The device includes the connection between an Arduino microcontroller and an optical mouse sensor to provide help in reading the movements from horizontal and vertical directions. The Arduino board ...

In this tutorial, I will show how you can handle the optical sensor inside a cheap optical-mouse for your next microcontroller project. Hope, this will allow your preferred microcontroller to look at ...

[Tim] is getting his drone ready for SparkFun’s 2013 Autonomous Vehicle Competition on June 8th. He has a pretty good start, but was having some problems accurately measuring travel distance. The ...

Wanting to experiment with using optical mouse sensors but a bit frustrated with the lack of options, [Tom Wiggins] rolled his own breakout board for the ADNS 3050 optical mouse sensor and in the ...

Did you know that your optical mouse contains a tiny, low-resolution camera? Web developer and gadget hacker Franci Kapel does, and he decided to rip apart his Logitech RX 250, take the ADNS-5020 ...