Re: Digitizer, Optical mouse hacking

At 08:18 05/01/01 +0000, you wrote:

>At the top of the probe would be
>a patterned plate which would be positioned just below the mouse optical
>sensor. Any deflection of the probe by encountering an object would cause
>the plate to move and fool the optics into thinking the mouse was moving.

Has anyone thought about using this technology as the basis for a DRO? Is
the resolution achievable good enough for such a use?


Regards,
Tony