As we well know, with the arrival of YouTube a new type of community has emerged, those of those people who seek to do the strangest things we would have ever imagined, but who remain extremely curious. In this case, we were able to see how a YouTuber managed to transform the optical sensor by a mouse in camera (and which, by the way, has very low resolution), something that surely no one would have thought possible.
Videos about curious inventions usually attract a large audience, because it is normal that we want to know how something works that we could not even think of or that it was possible to do, that is why channels that are dedicated to This type of thing They usually attract a large number of people. And although the vast majority of people know those who build houses with only sticks, there is also a variation dedicated to modifying the material of any object we know to get the most out of it.
An optical mouse as a camera, how is this possible?
As explained youtuber Doctor Volt, creator of this mouse camerathis is possible thanks to three things, the optical sensor of the mouse, a third-party controller and a chip that would function as a microcontroller. He mouse used is a very old device Logitechjust by looking at the sensor it uses we see that it is extremely old, since said optical sensor is a ADNS 2610
The principle was to convert the sensor ADNS 2610 at the heart of the room created from this mousebut for this it is necessary to make several adjustments, that is why the youtuber I had to add a bullet ESP32-S3 whose main function is to act as the microcontroller of the device. Once this was done, the device was already capable of “scanning” images, and the creator shows us this by doing this on a bill of 20 $, but as one would expect, the quality is no longer bad, but practically it’s impossible to see anything, since in the end, it’s a camera 324 pixels
The evolution of the camera
If the fact that there is a person who converted a mouse in camera, so don’t worry, because in addition to that, Doctor Volt has tried to improve this device as much as possible so that it can be used. To do this, he used a 3D printer with which he manufactured the mount to integrate a wide-angle lens generally used in Raspberry Pi.
Thanks to this, the youtuber is able to allow the camera to capture images beyond those that are extremely close, doing a test by recording itself, although as we stated previously the resolution is not particularly good , but you can differentiate the shapes, but you can’t. something we want to use for our meetings.
