hey beautiful people! I am in need of some help. Could someone tell me how to connect an optical sensor (ADNS-5050) to an arduino. bear in mind i just started to work with arduino and electronics in general.

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  • aball

    A Ball - Buttonless trackball for all

    • I was going to just direct you to the aball project but it looks like it doesn't actually give you much info about how/why it's wired to the sensor. All that is on this breakout PCB, which might be worth ordering if you're in America? Turns out it's not the ADNS5050 like I remembered anyway - it uses the ADNS9800 instead.

  • nano-trackball

    A very small trackball-only mouse. Mechanical files, PCBs, and firmware all included.

    • The Ploopy Nano does use the ADNS-5050 though! And the schematics for how they've connected it are available here.

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  • ADNS5050

    Discontinued Arduino Library for Avago ADNS5050

    • Looks like this project hasn't been updated in a while. But you can try this for a library to use. https://github.com/okhiroyuki/ADNS5050

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