A 3D printing enthusiast has made a cute, functional lo-fi digital camera using an optical sensor salvaged from a discarded ...

The DIYer's project used that optical sensor and crammed it into a self-made camera body, which they might have 3D printed.

Dycus recently shared the mouse-turned-camera project on Reddit. He used the optical sensor (model ADNS-3090) from an old ...

This Design Idea utilizes an optical computer mouse's sensor for measuring rotation of a disk which can be mechanically connected to any sort of rotating apparatus. One feature is to allow adjustment ...

Readers with long memories will remember the days when mice and other similar pointing devices relied upon a hard rubber ball in contact with your desk or other surface, that transmitted any motion to ...

Gaming Mice Razer's DeathAdder V4 Pro won an esports tournament before its release, hiding in plain sight with a camoflage colorway Gaming Mice Best gaming mouse in 2025: I've tested the very best ...

Mouse modern computer mice feature optical sensors that track the position of your mouse as you move it over a flat surface. But you know what else uses optical sensors? Cameras. So can you use a ...

Avago Technologies has announced a series of small form factor (SFF) optical mouse sensors with an integrated chip-on-board (COB) LED illuminated optical navigation system that is the thinnest in the ...

This is [Paul Mandel’s] Ground-truth velocity sensor. That’s a fancy name for a device which tracks the movement of a vehicle by actually monitoring the ground its travelling over. This differs from ...

One of the attractive features of early optical computer mice was their lack of moving parts. The idea is that fewer moving parts translate into less mechanical wear and longer life. But even though ...