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Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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. "

6 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. I envy by Irashtar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I envy this hacker's skills, B+W? I'd only see red.

  2. Hey cool ! ... by bushboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... He even used it to create his web page.

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  3. a spy scanner! by roman_mir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just use any sensitive document as a mouse pad......

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  4. Scan-mouse by massivefoot · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was promtply purchased by DARPA on a hunch that it might be able to see through concrete...

  5. But the real question is... by EdipisReks · · Score: 5, Funny

    could he turn a flatbed scanner into an optical mouse?

  6. It would appear... by Robber+Baron · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that his mousepad is white and has the number "4", followed by a "0", and another "4" on it

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