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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. "

3 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Re:OUTGOING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can someone please explain to me what the fuck these posts mean?

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

    Or designed to look that way.

  3. spend $5 more by rotagivan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and get a $20 mini digital camera. 320x240 vs 18x18.