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Modding Nokia Cameraphone To Be Mouse
ozg333 writes "This guy had the very clever idea of modding a Nokia mobile phone to work as a mouse by using the built in camera.
It uses the phone's built-in Bluetooth to link to the PC, so cool! There is also a video of it in action. I can't wait to get one of these, it would mean one less device to carry when I'm travelling."
Boy, and I thought my 2xAAA bluetooth optical mouse had a short battery life! The CCD sensors are only intended for bursts of a few seconds, not for continuous clicky-draggy mouse motions. They chew up a large amount of battery power to amplify extremely small amounts of incoming light signal into usable pixel values.
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Considering he is #861941, he is actually is pretty new here.
Back on topic: I really do not want to drag my cell phone back and forth across a desk. Also, if I am on a trip and end up using my computer for an extended period of time, I want something that is a bit more ergonomic. A phone is designed to be held close to the head, not horizontally and in front of you.
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
I believe that came first.
Use a headset. Or the speakerphone. Not very complicated.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Erm, I just got my Nokia 6220 which is an older model to his phone, and the camera on it sucks ass, but I could easily make out my keyboard letters at less than his recomended 0.6cm And even when it was really faint you could track the direction of movement quite easily, wether a java program could do that though is up for debate.
Tidy people are lazy, they cant be bothered to look for things.
My Sony Erickson K750i has this built in to it.
Uses the joystick thingy on it to control the pointer over bluetooth.
Why is it news that you have to use hacks on one phone to do something that is native on others ?