Hi, I have a space mouse and I want to rig it to an In-game camera. In the game you press Mouse button 2 to move the camera, how hard would it be to make the space mouse work as the camera?
@rofl123mao Depends on your software. For more about interfacing the spacemouse, see my blog hackedfrompieces. wordpress. com , scroll down to the spacemouse entry.
(2/2)...We have one at the university and a member of our department actually decoded the serial data stream to get the axis-data in order to (haha!) control a PA-10 robotic arm. Afaik the results have not been published and he never really controlled the arm (the project was not longer interesting). But I could ask him on monday if the results are "open source".
(1/2) Well the problem is USB. Grabbing the information directly off the USB-Plug should be really hard. What you might be able to do is ripping the signals directly off the sensors. AFAIK, the Spacemouse uses optical sensors for every axis. But if you are unlucky, the data from the sensors needs to be and IS processed in an internal electronics before sent to the USB-Interface. The easyest thing for you should be getting an old SpaceMouse at eBay which as no USB but a serial plug....
If you use inverse kinematics, you might reduce the problem to 4-5 DOF (depending on the joint-configuration of the arm), so it would be no problem. You could use the SpaceMouse to control just the end-effector. IIRC the SpaceMouse has 6 DOF. But if you just want to map each joint of the robot to a Space-Mouse-Axis, the system will not be very user-friendly, since control is not very intuitive. PLZ place comment here if you have further questions or results. :)
Do i need to have a computer? I would like to do it without having a computer. We have a microprocessor to handle everything right now and want to avoid using computers.
Please let me know how you do this if possible. It would be very helpful for our school project. We would like to use this to control a robotic arm with 5-6 D/O.F.'s
Hi, I have a space mouse and I want to rig it to an In-game camera. In the game you press Mouse button 2 to move the camera, how hard would it be to make the space mouse work as the camera?
rofl123mao 1 year ago
@rofl123mao Depends on your software. For more about interfacing the spacemouse, see my blog hackedfrompieces. wordpress. com , scroll down to the spacemouse entry.
DerAzghul 1 year ago
(2/2)...We have one at the university and a member of our department actually decoded the serial data stream to get the axis-data in order to (haha!) control a PA-10 robotic arm. Afaik the results have not been published and he never really controlled the arm (the project was not longer interesting). But I could ask him on monday if the results are "open source".
DerAzghul 3 years ago
(1/2) Well the problem is USB. Grabbing the information directly off the USB-Plug should be really hard. What you might be able to do is ripping the signals directly off the sensors. AFAIK, the Spacemouse uses optical sensors for every axis. But if you are unlucky, the data from the sensors needs to be and IS processed in an internal electronics before sent to the USB-Interface. The easyest thing for you should be getting an old SpaceMouse at eBay which as no USB but a serial plug....
DerAzghul 3 years ago
If you use inverse kinematics, you might reduce the problem to 4-5 DOF (depending on the joint-configuration of the arm), so it would be no problem. You could use the SpaceMouse to control just the end-effector. IIRC the SpaceMouse has 6 DOF. But if you just want to map each joint of the robot to a Space-Mouse-Axis, the system will not be very user-friendly, since control is not very intuitive. PLZ place comment here if you have further questions or results. :)
DerAzghul 3 years ago
Do i need to have a computer? I would like to do it without having a computer. We have a microprocessor to handle everything right now and want to avoid using computers.
alaukik1 3 years ago
Please let me know how you do this if possible. It would be very helpful for our school project. We would like to use this to control a robotic arm with 5-6 D/O.F.'s
alaukik1 3 years ago
Amazing. Great Work
AerospaceTech 3 years ago