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 ...

Abstract: An optical mouse is a computer navigation device that uses light, primarily to track movement and control the cursor on a computer screen. Other than computer cursors, various fields of ...