Mouse Cam

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

Step 1 The inspiration for the project

I was looking at this page: optical mouse cam and the comments of people who wanted to do it but was unsure how to proceed.

When I was gifted a failed optical mouse I opened it up and found that it had the same sensor as in the web page above. So I could repeat his work, and use the software he had developed.

The picture shows the board inside the mouse without modification.

Comments

[S33PlusPlus]

Just a heads up, but the text is far too fuzzy to read, even at full size.

[rjunior-1]

Do you can put the brand and model of mouse that were used? I opened five mouses and none of them has the ADNS2610. I would like to do the experiement with a mouse that was tested. Thanks a lot.

[brew93]

The link is broken.

[neelandan]

I shall upload my copy.

[karthvks]

can i get the copy
my e-id
[e-mail]
name-karthik

[sweaterlife]

Using the 3060 for a university project, but the link you posted to a 3060 project is broken(and I assume no longer hosted)...any chance you have a hard copy downloaded? I did this one and it worked great thanks (Y)!

[jorciks]

this link is working http://www.ziddu.com/download/9471999/readmouse.rar.html

[nalinda4nr]

Link doesn't work. Can u upload it again.

[Colonel88]

SOme pics please?

[Corpy]

I have 16 pin's sensor what i can do whit it?

[Sinnedskull]

Wow this wonder full but can i ask favor? can i ask the source of the dll that you use? Pleas...

[raysireks]

maybe a fingerprint scanner? have you tried to run your finger over it and see what shows?

[altaria1993]

yeah, that would be cool, though i think you would need a little more leds then, but thats easy to do ;)

[altaria1993]

yay, tomorrow, when the stores are open again, i'll buy a parallel port thingy, so i dont have to solder to my motherboard, and try to find a diode somewhere (i got some somewhere.. i jus't dont know where..)

[gdw]

Does this make use of the on board micro controller at all? In other words, would this work if you took the chip off of the board and put it in a bread board, for example?

[neelandan]

This does NOT make use of the on board micro controller. It will work if you take the sensor chip and supporting components off to a custom made board. I do not think it will work in a breadboard, because of the high frequency signals and decoupling needed around the sensor chip.

[nicko170]

Such a nice Instructable. Thanks.
I have updated the program to include a Capture feature so that you can save images easier. Link Source is included.
This also worked for the A1610 chip. I used a standard Compaq Presario mouse.
- Nick

[spman123]

what mouse is this that you took apart

[theadamlevy]

its a good thing you didnt use the mouse to take the pictures for this instructable :) clever im glad there are people out there that would figure this stuff out cus the extent of my time wasting goes to reading it

[Shinji]

very ingenious! bravo.

[dan]

hmm, very nifty. i think the main features of these sensors are low resolution but very high frame rate, low res is not much help so we should think about what the super high frame rate could be useful for.

[royalestel]

Get an array of them together to make a higher resolution gestalt-cam.

[Kiteman]

Muzzle-velocity sensor?

[jimbo112]

how would tyou be able to tell where the bullet was? it would just be a smudge in the immages, and

[Kiteman]

Maybe not for a normal gun, but for a spud-gun, or anything else with a relatively slow muzzle velocity - use a dark projectile against a light background & measure the distance travelled between frames.

[Digital_Anarchy]

get your mouse and slide it as fast as your can across your desk top. unless you have a super awesome gaming mouse it will probably screw up and the cursor will just move erracticly. the frame rate cant be that good

[TechnoMancer]

you put a differnet lens on the sensor and aim it very carefully!!!!!

[TechnoMancer]

BTW the url to the site where this comes from originally and where the software comes from is: http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye

[neelandan]

Here is another web page, using the sixteen pin ADNS3060: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ttrutna/16-264/Vision_Project/

[bleachworthy]

very nicely done! I'll bet if you scanned the rest of that, and printed it, you could easily sell that as abstract art. one question though, what is the purpose of the diode shorting those two particular pins?

[wiml]

The SDIO signal on the mouse chip is bidirectional, it acts as an input or an output at different times. The printer pins are all one-directional, either inputs or outputs. The diode converts the printer port output pin's "1" signal into a "high-Z" signal (or rather, a lack of signal) so that you can use the other pin to read the signal sent by the chip. Normally you would use an open-collector output for talking to an I2C bus, this imitates that.

[TechnoMancer]

the diode does not short the pins *consults pinout for parallel port* the diode connects the data3 pin and the paper empty pin together i have no idea why this is done but it has probably got something to do with the interfacing between the computer and the chip.

the data3 pin is used as output and the paper empty for input the diode is (i think) a clamp diode to protect the computer from high voltage spikes.

[Spectrace]

i have seen people do this and use it as a barcode scanner, as you can tell from your scan, that it similar to a barcode. Maybe it can be used as that, YAY.. good structable!