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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. "

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  1. Re:OUTGOING by Max+Threshold · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I think they are one-time-pad messages from terruhists.

    Or designed to look that way.