Those sensors are finicky and a few problems during testing prompted him to look at a redundant system. Right now he’s experimenting with adding an optical mouse sensor to the autonomous vehicle.

The robot in question is a skid-steer 4-wheeled toy, to which he has added an ADNS3080 mouse sensor fitted with a lens, an H-bridge motor driver board, and a Wemos D1 Mini single board computer.

The ADNS 3050 is an entry level gaming sensor with up to 2000cpi resolution. It uses 6 wires to communicate via SPI(including Power) and can be used to create your own computer mouse in addition to ...

optical sensor) and send the data it gets over serial at 115200 baud. You can open any serial terminal to view the data from the mouse. The mice were packaged with the HID select switch in the HID ...

They work by emitting light from an LED or laser, and a CMOS sensor detects the light reflections as the mouse is moved. Early optical mice required a special mouse pad, but modern devices can be ...