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Using an arduinoArduino as the processerprocessor for a computer-mouse-like speed detector

I'm looking at making a pretty cheap and easy odometer, eventually for an electric car or similar vehicle.

My idea is pretty much to implement a big computer mouse, and track the speed of motion with that: Aa computer mouse takes photos of the surface it is on, and finds the difference between concurrentsequential images in both the xX and the yY directions.

What I am wanting to do is to attach a downwards-facing camera; something like this, to the bottom of the vehicle, and use an arduino nanoArduino Nano to do the image processing to achieve a result similar to a computer mouse.

I was wondering whether anyone knows of an libraries/documentation on anything similar, or if anyone has any pointers on reasons why this would not work, or ways it would work.

Thanks all.

Using an arduino as the processer for a computer-mouse-like speed detector

I'm looking at making a pretty cheap and easy odometer, eventually for an electric car or similar vehicle.

My idea is pretty much to implement a big computer mouse, and track the speed of motion with that: A computer mouse takes photos of the surface it is on, and finds the difference between concurrent images in both the x and the y directions.

What I am wanting to do is to attach a downwards-facing camera; something like this, to the bottom of the vehicle, and use an arduino nano to do the image processing to achieve a result similar to a computer mouse.

I was wondering whether anyone knows of an libraries/documentation on anything similar, or if anyone has any pointers on reasons why this would not work, or ways it would work.

Thanks all.

Using an Arduino as the processor for a computer-mouse-like speed detector

I'm looking at making a pretty cheap and easy odometer, eventually for an electric car or similar vehicle.

My idea is to implement a big computer mouse, and track the speed with that: a computer mouse takes photos of the surface it is on, and finds the difference between sequential images in both the X and Y directions.

What I am wanting to do is to attach a downwards-facing camera; something like this, to the bottom of the vehicle, and use an Arduino Nano to do the image processing to achieve a result similar to a computer mouse.

I was wondering whether anyone knows of an libraries/documentation on anything similar, or if anyone has any pointers on reasons why this would not work, or ways it would work.

Thanks all.

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Using an arduino as the processer for a computer-mouse-like speed detector

I'm looking at making a pretty cheap and easy odometer, eventually for an electric car or similar vehicle.

My idea is pretty much to implement a big computer mouse, and track the speed of motion with that: A computer mouse takes photos of the surface it is on, and finds the difference between concurrent images in both the x and the y directions.

What I am wanting to do is to attach a downwards-facing camera; something like this, to the bottom of the vehicle, and use an arduino nano to do the image processing to achieve a result similar to a computer mouse.

I was wondering whether anyone knows of an libraries/documentation on anything similar, or if anyone has any pointers on reasons why this would not work, or ways it would work.

Thanks all.