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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: airman00 on August 14, 2007, 06:42:57 PM

Title: Cheap Sensors
Post by: airman00 on August 14, 2007, 06:42:57 PM

I was just going to recommend using optical mice as proximity sensors. They're really really cheap if you look on ebay( like $20 for 10). They work just like laser sensors . Just an LED and a CCD circuit...

Anyone done this kind of thing yet?

Title: Re: Cheap Sensors
Post by: megaman935 on August 15, 2007, 07:14:57 AM

This isn't exactly what you're asking for....
but it is someone making a mouse into a robot using some of the parts in one, so it may be of use to you.
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1646.0 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1646.0)

Title: Re: Cheap Sensors
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on August 15, 2007, 10:01:38 AM

@Mega:
I dont think thats quite was he was saying. On the mouse-bot, the guy put in some xmitters rather than using the mouses(which I think was a ball mouse?) own laser circuitry

Still a nifty idea though... haha... "nifty"

Title: Re: Cheap Sensors
Post by: Admin on August 21, 2007, 03:03:48 PM

Or you could just spend $1 for two resistors and an IR emitter/detector pair . . . :P