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Originally Posted by bobson
Interesting that noone could write a program to connect mice encoders directly to PC and use it that way. I remember reading on the net wiring them with two PC's, one PC with the program reading mice encoders and then that PC connected to second PC with astro software. There must be a way to emulate first PC (laptop) with software.
bob
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Bob that's where Microcontrollers and stand alone sytems like Gary's
Argo Navis come in.
You need quite a lot of processing power to do it fast and well (Argo)
and an old clunker laptop running DOS to do it adequately (Bartels).
Dave Ek's idea goes down the Micro path.
Many others have too, me included.
Mine's not quite finished yet but is based around a PIC 18F452 micro
with mouse guts quadrature encoders.
Steve