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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: mahavir.coep on July 05, 2008, 04:41:20 AM

Title: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: mahavir.coep on July 05, 2008, 04:41:20 AM
We tried ATMEGA-16 based accelerometer mouse with CYWM 6935 wireless module. We used tilt property of accelerometer to map onto computer screen as mouse movement in X-Y plane....

Its really good attempt towards gesture recognition using low cost inertial sensors...

For complete description with SChematics & source code look at..

http://mahavir.coep.googlepages.com/wirelessaccelerometerbasedmouse (http://mahavir.coep.googlepages.com/wirelessaccelerometerbasedmouse)




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Regards

Mahavir
Title: Re: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: izua on July 05, 2008, 06:55:01 AM
pretty cool. where have you bought the sensor?
Title: Re: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: JesseWelling on July 05, 2008, 01:41:12 PM
SparkFun.com would be the best place to start looking...
Title: Re: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: bens on July 05, 2008, 04:43:05 PM
Sparkfun probably has the greatest accelerometer selection.  If you're looking for a good accelerometer at a low cost, you could consider Freescale's MMA7260QT 3-Axis accelerometer, which has selectable sensitivity (+/- 1.5, 2, 4, or 6 g) and outputs an analog voltage for each axis.  Both Sparkfun and Pololu sell break-out boards for this IC, but the Pololu version is smaller and includes an integrated 3.3 V regulator so that the board can be easily integrated into 5 V projects (you will need external electronics to use the Sparkfun version with a 5 V AVR).

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/766
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?c=80

- Ben
Title: Re: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: izua on July 05, 2008, 05:31:35 PM
*sigh* sometimes, i really hate this country.
i never knew about pololu carrying them, though.
Title: Re: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: mahavir.coep on July 07, 2008, 01:16:37 AM
We got most of parts as free samples....


1. ST LIS3L02 3-axis accelerometer from ST Microelectronics

2. CYWM 6935 from Cypress semi.  Link http://www.cypress.com/products/index.jsp?fid=65&rpn=CYWM6935 (http://www.cypress.com/products/index.jsp?fid=65&rpn=CYWM6935)

3.TC 1262 Regulator 3.3volt from Microchip semiconductor..


We are really thankful to them...checkout  http://coepetc.blogspot.com (http://coepetc.blogspot.com)


Regards

Mahavir
Title: Re: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: sonictj on July 07, 2008, 01:26:07 AM
If you want a gesture based mouse.  You can easily use a wiimote + bluetooth + windows + Glovepie.  with only 2 lines of code and a IR led sensor bar, you can use IR instead of an accelerometer.  With ir you can use pitch and yaw control rather than pitch and roll.  I've done this to play fps games ordinary intended for a mouse.  Its a cheap simple solution for this type of application.
Title: Re: Wireless accelerometer based mouse
Post by: pomprocker on July 07, 2008, 11:31:11 AM
man my arm would be killing me after 8 hours of holding this up in the air at the office  :D  :P