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Laser Mouse is a tool allowing users to control a mouse on a projection screen with a laser pointer, perfect for professors, seminar speakers, and business professionals during presentations. This innovative device frees users from being tied to their laptop mouse. Project schedule includes camera interfacing, laser pointer calibration, and enhancing mouse movements.
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What is a Laser Mouse? • Laser Mouse is a tool that will enable users to control a mouse on a projection screen using a laser pointer. Users will no longer be tied to the mouse on their laptop while giving presentations. • Who would ever use such a thing? • Professors • Seminar Speakers • Business Professionals giving Presentations
Project Schedule • Week 4 – Get Camera Working and interfaced to FPGA and VGA Monitor • Week 5 – Obtain Laser Pointer coordinates from camera image and use ‘crosshair’ to display on monitor and calibrate • Week 6 – Send mouse coordinates to laptop via PS/2 port • Week 7 – Work on mapping between camera pixels, laptop pixels, and projection screen pixels. Work on steadying mouse movements on projected screen • Week 8 – Add buttons to laser interface for standard mouse click • Week 9 – Flex Time and Final Project Documentation • Week 10 – Flex Time and Final Project Demo