So for a project I am looking for a way to measure distance, an optical mouse sensors basically seem to tick all the boxes.
I have been looking around at all the known distributors, like Digikey, Farnell, Mouser, LCSC etc but no-one seems to sell them or they are obsolete.
Does anyone know why this is and are there ways to get them otherwise?
Obviously I can try do directly contact manufactures directly, but in this case it's only for a small project.
Second to this, does anyone has experience with these things?
I am basically only interested in one axis, something around 5000-6000 dpi would give me more than adequate resolution.
I guess I can also get a cheap mouse for now, but in the end the budget is no more than $2-$4
This gave me basically the idea;