This was a really fun project to work on. With the help of Dr. Al Ducharme, I designed this little gadget for my final project at UCF. The main components were a ADNS-3080 optical sensor from a standard computer mouse, a lens with the correct focal distance, and a PIC 18F252. I really wanted to do something involving my late electric skateboard, because at the time we had a posse that would meet up on thursdays to ride the boards through the streets of Orlando til the wee hours of the night. It was always fun, but those boards were horribly produced, and all broke within 9 months. This thing however, still works! ...Read more to see video and view documentation.

If your interested, check out the file attachment for my final report including the .c file that made the thing work. This video was the demo shown during the presentation since they wouldn't let me ride my skateboard in the building...