Turns out you can make an old optical gaming mouse into a working camera

If you have a bit of a soft spot for the Game Boy Camera or, dare I say it, the built-in camera of that PS Vita stuck in your ...

Hobbyist builds lo-fi camera from an old optical mouse

Dycus recently shared the mouse-turned-camera project on Reddit. He used the optical sensor (model ADNS-3090) from an old ...
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3D printing enthusiast creates camera with a gutted optical mouse's sensor — lo-fi 30x30 pixel camera took 65 hours to build

A 3D printing enthusiast has made a cute, functional lo-fi digital camera using an optical sensor salvaged from a discarded ...
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Computer Mouse Based on Accelerometer

A MEMS X/Y accelerometer is being utilized in this mouse project along with a PIC microcontroller while illustrating a new mouse being powered by the unused RS232 serial control lines. A MEMS X/Y ...