Hello everyone, I'm new here as well as new to Arduino in general(I have some experience in robotics but not so much on the coding side).
I have a BotBoarduino which is basically a redesigned Duemilanove. This will be going into a wheeled bot with servos as the drive motors. The plan is to use a wireless mouse to control the bot, i.e. moving the mouse on the table will cause the bot to move in the same manner on the floor. As far as code goes, I just need the (x,y) input from the mouse. In order to do this I need a way to connect the mouse to the board. Now my understanding is that in order to connect a USB device I will need to add a shield board such as this one(https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9947). If I were to get that board what else would I need to do in order for this to work? Will it be plug-n-play or will I need to add in more stuff? Can I use the standard mouse library included in the Arduino IDE?