Forth & small systems report

ABSTRACT

In July 2005 I ran across an ad in Electronic Products [1] for an optical mouse sensor by Agilent Technologies. Like many people, I find using an optical mouse to be superior to the old ball-in-a-cage type mouse (which I first saw demonstrated on the Xerox Star workstation at the National Computer Conference in Dallas, June 1976). Inevitably, I was curious to learn what makes it tick (or "squeak") ... that's my Tinkertoy® mentality at work. I clipped the article, filed it and totally forgot about it until recently.

REFERENCES

• 1: http://www.electronicproducts.com.
• 2: http://www.avagotech. com.
• 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agilent.
• 4: Owens, Richard, "Optical Mouse Technology". http://www.ida.net/users/oelk/OpticalMouse.
• 5: http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000770073476.
• 6: http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/projects/mouseeye.
• 7: http://home.comcast.net/~maccody/robotics/mouse_hack/mouse_hack.html.
• 8: Frenger, Paul, "A Software-Controlled EKG Simulator", Biomed Sci Instrum, <b>27</b>, 1991, Mayo Clinic, 227--230.
• 9: http://www.mpeforth.com.
• 10: http://www.newmicros.com.
• 11: http://www.siski.de/~carsten/diplomarbeit.html.
• 12: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cmucam.
• 13: http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/R228-CMUCAM2-OV6620.html.
• 14: http://www.polarisusa.com/cgibin/product_listings.
• 15: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/ece/ece_facu_enderle.htm.
• 16: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade.
• 17: Enderle, John and Engelken, Edward, "Effects of Cerebellar Lesions on Saccade Simulations", Biomed Sci Instrum, <b>32</b>, 1996, US Air Force Academy, 13--21.
• 18: http://www.edmundoptics.com/onlinecatalog.
• 19: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.8 PERSONAL COMPUTING
      K.8.2 Hardware

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: FORTH