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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Tim] is getting his drone ready for SparkFun’s 2013 Autonomous Vehicle Competition on June 8th. He has a pretty good start, but was having some problems accurately measuring travel distance. The ...

TL;DR: Researchers from the University of California developed Mic-E-Mouse, an AI-powered tool that exploits high-DPI optical sensors in gaming mice to eavesdrop on speech by detecting surface ...

Taiwan-based IC design house PixArt Imaging (PXI) signed a cross-licensing agreement for optical image sensor intellectual properties (IPs) with Avago Technologies, an IC design house spin-off from ...

It would be difficult to go through the day without seeing evidence that the touch interface has become the most popular way of interacting with smartphones. Indeed, Apple’s introduction of the iPhone ...

The sensor of some optical mice can be used to easily and cheaply detect counterfeit euros, according to a study published by researchers of the University of Lleida (UdL) in the scientific journal ...