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YouTuber Doctor Volt has repurposed an optical mouse to create a camera. The project relied principally on the mouse’s optical sensor, a third-party controller, some software wrangling, and a little bit of 3D printing to tidily secure a Raspberry Pi wide-angle lens in place of the prism. The photos werent great, though.

You can turn a computer mouse into a working camera, provided it has an optical sensor, which includes photodiodes to track user movement.

Here's a quick riddle: when is a mouse not a mouse? When it has been modded to become a camera, that's when - this is some really nifty work.

Designed by German YouTuber Doctor Volt, a recent DIY project uses parts of a defective Samsung BD-J5900 Blu-ray player to put a laser-scanning microscope together. Compared to...