Optical Trackball with Glass Ball???

Firebolt1914

02 Mar 2015, 23:52

I've been wondering whether or not if this will work. I'm pretty sure that it won't, but I'm wondering if anyone has tried.

Maybe opaque glass will work, I have no clue.

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SL89

03 Mar 2015, 01:39


Firebolt1914

03 Mar 2015, 03:05

Crap, I just noticed there was another thread on this.......

davkol

03 Mar 2015, 19:17

IIRC someone has tried various balls in their optical trackballs (modern Kensington Expert, maybe Orbit) without success, due to an imperfect shape and especially the lack of visual patterns that stock balls had.

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Mal-2

04 Mar 2015, 04:15

It might be possible to do this with, say, an infrared LED and sensor and a ball that is transparent in the visual spectrum but opaque and textured in the IR. (Or pick any other wavelength through UVA, the concept remains the same.) That is to say, how you see the ball and how the sensor sees the ball don't have to be even remotely the same.

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