Mouse Tremor Filter

Other Hardware Product Design
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Tremors hand/forearm, from either Parkinson’s or Essential Tremors, of 4Hz to 12Hz, makes using a conventional mouse difficult for anything other than large movement of the pointer.

One possible solution is to introduce a microcontroller 'filter', between the mouse and the computer, to filter out some/all of the tremor noise from the mouse and pass the ‘clean’ signal onto the computer. Commercial products are available to provide this functionality but cost $250-$350 per unit. I was hoping to build a similar unit for $50 or less.

Pro: Powered from the PC. No additional software required on PC. It should be relatively inexpensive.

Con: Needs 2 USB ports.

thoughts/input/cautions/doubts solicited

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Sounds more like a job for the PC OS.

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That would leave out Mac/Linux/ChromeOS or create a need for 4 different solutions IMOSHO.

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Ha ha. I will go and check Mint Linux to see if it's already supported...

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Try a 32u4, you can receive the mouse input using the PS2 library and transmit the filtered input to the computer as a native USB HID.

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Are you working working on this project? TremorMouse & Other USB Filter Thoughts

Looks to favor CircuitPython but most CP boards can also run Arduino code.

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No, but I'll watch the video. Google and Facebook failed to find any other references to
'TremorMouse'.

Yes. This is exactly what I wanted to build. Oh well. Hope they get it out soon and it doesn't cost too much.

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not that it matters (since you can daisy chain usb), but why would you need two ports? wouldn't it just be an inline box?

You'll need to familiarize yourself with how data is transmitted on usb, intercept the signal & modify as you see fit. That's probably going to introduce some lag, though I doubt that'd be a problem for the users this would be for.

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port 1 reading data from the mouse, which gets filtered, and past out through port 2 that connects to the PC/Mac/Linux desktop/Chromebook

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You might be able to connect with the folks running the project via atmakers.org

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Thanks you for the link.
I managed to track them down for Bill Binko's video.

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