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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Depraz/Logitech Digimouse manual
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 19:10:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18809DBF-3FBF-47C2-AD36-D4A33D6A36B4@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OAcFOjhPDnrK8gozA7MgW-Gw1hS9_yiNf_bMUw8WjkzgIMFq_7YVm2yUR1uCSko28EBL-PvWcapMdMHhsoShFwTTZCDN6ku8yclEcbU7jNo=@jfloren.net>

On Aug 4, 2021, at 5:51 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> 
> Having just been given a Depraz mouse, I thought it would be fun to get it working on my modern computer. Since the DE9 connector is male rather than female as you usually see with serial mice, and given its age, I speculate that it might have a custom protocol; in any rate, plugging it into a USB-serial converter and and firing up picocom has given me nothing.
> 
> Does anyone have a copy of a manual for it, or more information on how to interface with it? If I knew how it was wired and what the protocol looked like, I expect I could make an adapter pretty trivially using a microcontroller.

You'll likely need a couple of quadrature decoders as X1,X2 (& Y1,Y2) transitions encode the direction of movement in X (& Y) axis. This may help:
http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/robotics/projects/lab-x3/quadratrak.html

On a 'Pi may be you can just wire it up to a few GPIO pins (but you will need to convert 5V signals to 3.3V to avoid damaging them).

-- Bakul



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-05  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-05  0:51 John Floren
2021-08-05  1:12 ` Henry Bent
2021-08-05  3:58   ` John Floren
2021-08-05  4:12     ` ron minnich
2021-08-05  4:14       ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-06 16:27       ` John Floren
2021-08-06 16:34         ` ron minnich
2021-08-06 16:52           ` John Floren
2021-08-06 18:33             ` ron minnich
2021-08-06 19:16               ` Andrew Hume
2021-08-06 19:47                 ` William Cheswick
     [not found]               ` <CAKzdPgzZvMUBjGuar9cygk2UCmzzEAXDoGjscKF1CcG_6XAV5A@mail.gmail.com>
2021-08-06 21:49                 ` John Floren
2021-08-06 21:54                   ` Rob Pike
2021-08-06 21:53                 ` Rob Pike
2021-08-06 23:33                   ` Phil White
2021-08-07  0:24                     ` Rob Pike
     [not found]                       ` <CAKzdPgyxM2xD3VKmsN2MXsobVCny5q0RHrqb14a7ObN91sWTaA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-08-07 12:13                         ` John Foust via TUHS
2021-08-05  2:10 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2021-08-06 23:48 Norman Wilson
2021-08-06 23:57 ` John Cowan

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