Disassembling the mouse you can get two optical encoders plus four infrared emitter/detector pairs. Then you can reassemble your new sensors into a quadrature incremental optical encoder.

Logitech is upping the ante in the battle for optical-mouse supremacy with its latest Wheel Mouse Optical. The mouse has a tiny red light and an optical sensor instead of the traditional ball ...

Microsoft's Wheel Mouse Optical is on sale for just $15.93 over at Amazon. Maybe we're still jet lagged, but shouldn't they have named it "Optical Wheel ...

When your mouse wheel suddenly starts scrolling in the opposite direction, you might think the issue lies with your hardware. But you can often fix a mouse behaving erratically without replacing ...

"I have now had to have Apple replace 10 ? that's right 10 ? wired Mighty Mouse devices for the failure of the scroll wheel. They seem to fail over a period as long as months to just a couple of days.

Windows only: Tiny, portable utility Wheel Here switches between windows by simply moving your mouse over another window and scrolling the mouse wheel—so you can easily switch applications.

Having get used to the way Mac OS handles mouse wheel scrolling, I was wondering if there is the same functionality in Windows: In Mac OS, when you scroll with the mouse wheel, the window your ...

The mouse is based on the PMW3360 sensor, ... There’s also specialised code to read the wheel encoder from ... like the Wheel Mouse Optical and the Intellimouse 1.3.

It would be interesting to build an encoder from a wireless computer mouse; and perhaps even more interesting, using the sensor from a digital caliper, as most of them have an I 2 C interface. But ...

Rotary and linear optical encoders are common in position and motion sensing. Resources. ... The biggest drawback is that detectors on maskless encoders work only with specific code-wheel resolutions.

It's called the ValueRays Warm Mouse, and for 30 bucks it'll give your cursor hand up to 104 degrees of toasty goodness. It's a welcome addition to any cold office.

A good mouse can last you a long time, but it can get pretty worn down after awhile—especially the scroll wheel. Over at the BASE jewelry blog, they've made their mouse's wheel more resilient ...