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Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner
John H. Doe writes "This student was bored one day, so he decided to see what the world looked like from the bottom of his optical mouse. He jury rigged a few wires to his parallel port and wrote a program to take a look. And seeing as how one thing a mouse does is to detect motion, made it into a ghetto b&w handscanner. "
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
You can't handle the truth.
I envy this hacker's skills, B+W? I'd only see red.
... He even used it to create his web page.
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Just use any sensitive document as a mouse pad......
You can't handle the truth.
Are we supposed to send him a gift scanner? Clothes? Food? Matches for starting fires? :D
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
It was promtply purchased by DARPA on a hunch that it might be able to see through concrete...
could he turn a flatbed scanner into an optical mouse?
The program is written in Visual Basic. So no.
Note to mods: I'm probably being sarcastic.
...that his mousepad is white and has the number "4", followed by a "0", and another "4" on it
You're using her as bait, Master!
but I live in the ghetto you insensitive clod!!!!!
That's because he turned his old Zip drive into a web-server.
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