Looking for an optical odometry chip

[BobW]

I'm looking for what is essentially a one dimensional version of an optical mouse sensor. I need to have a non contact sensor that can detect lateral movement of a target in one dimension only. I could use an optical mouse sensor, and use only one axis output, but all of the current mouse chips I've seen have only a USB output which are very difficult to interface to. Some early chips (eg., the PS/2 versions) had quadrature outputs as well so that they could emulate a standard quadrature encoder, but it appears that those chips are all obsolete and unavailable.
Is anyone aware of a sensor that would work in this application and has an easy to use output interface?

 

[rjenkinsgb]

There is a Chinese supplier here that still has good stock of the Agilent ADNS-3060 serial output mouse sensor:

ADNS-3060 Quote on-line | ADNS-3060 Brand Manufactures | PDF Datasheet | In-Stock

ADNS-3060 are available at Chuangxinda Electronics. Chuangxinda will provide you the global and original ADNS-3060's Stock Information, Reference Price, Package Lot No., etc, Free PDF Datasheet Download.Find online electronic components that we have in stock.

www.cxda.com

The price is under $0.50 each.

Datasheet:

https://datasheet.es/download.php?id=537549

 

[BobW]

How did you find the price? When I click on the link, I don't get any price info unless I submit a price request (which I don't want to do). I doubt that they'd be selling them for $0.50 each unless I order several thousand.

 

[rjenkinsgb]

Sorry, that was a link on Octopart - they list the CXDA price at $0.446, for ten or more devices.

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[BobW]

Okay thanks. Giving this some more thought, I think my best bet is to find an old PS2 mouse and salvage the chip and optics from it. Because I'm going to need the optics no matter what.

 

[atferrari]

What software do you intend to use to communicate with the chip?

 

[BobW]

I'll probably use a PIC, so it would be PIC assembly language. But I'm also considering an Arduino, in which case it would be C.

 

[atferrari]

Long ago I managed to read a mouse using the PS2 protocol. Software was written in Assembly for PICs (the old one). If I find all data from my project (could take some time) I could post it here. Are you interested?

 

[ZipZapOuch]

This chip (on a breakout board has been my favorite for gesture control - it is not exactly what you asked but super easy with I2c comma.

Gesture Breakout with APDS-9960

With this RGB and Gesture sensor, you will be able to control a computer, microcontroller, robot, and much more with a simple hand gesture! The usage pins are as follows: VL (optional IR LED power supply), GND (Ground), VCC (3.3V power supply), SDA (I2C data), SCL (I2C clock), INT (interrupt)...

store-usa.arduino.cc

 

[BobW]

Long ago I managed to read a mouse using the PS2 protocol. Software was written in Assembly for PICs (the old one). If I find all data from my project (could take some time) I could post it here. Are you interested?

Yes, if you can find it, it would save me a lot of time.

 

[BobW]

This chip (on a breakout board has been my favorite for gesture control - it is not exactly what you asked but super easy with I2c comma.

Gesture Breakout with APDS-9960

With this RGB and Gesture sensor, you will be able to control a computer, microcontroller, robot, and much more with a simple hand gesture! The usage pins are as follows: VL (optional IR LED power supply), GND (Ground), VCC (3.3V power supply), SDA (I2C data), SCL (I2C clock), INT (interrupt)...

store-usa.arduino.cc

Thanks. I'd been looking at gesture controller chips, but it wasn't clear to me how they worked, and I didn't realize there was a breakout board available. They're cheap enough, so I'll probably order one, and check it out.