From Light to Cursor

ESP32 Code for the "Mouse To Camera Hack" Displays frames captured by an optical mouse sensor on a simple web user interface. Works with all optical mice with ADNS 2610 sensor.

Reddit user Dycus built a camera using the sensor from an optical mouse. After about 65 hours of work, Dycus had a low-resolution black-and-white camera with multiple shooting modes, housed...

The software works on mice which use an ADNS-2610 optical sensor, recognisable by the eight pins, the sun-like mark and the text 'A2610'. I've seen this sensor in most cheap optical mice that aren't too old.

Those optical sensors are similar to what you find in digital cameras, so Doctor Volt did the natural thing and converted an old optical mouse into a functioning digital camera.

Mouse Cam: Use an optical mouse for low resolution imaging. The picture is that of an "e" under the mouse.

An optical computer mouse is actually a camera! In this video I show how I modified an old optical mouse by hacking its sensor and replacing some parts. Can you recognize what it films?