The work on the software side, also completed in those few 65 hours, delivered multiple shooting modes (single shot, double shot, quad shot, ‘smear’ shot (panorama), and cowboy), plus a bonus draw-on-the-screen mouse mode that uses the touch sensor as intended. Users can also pick from multiple color palettes, not just gray.
Dycus wrote what they call a “rudimentary photo dump to computer via Python script and serial port.” If it works, for archiving the camera’s precious lo-fi cargo, then it is fit for purpose.
Last but not least, Dycus compares their MMC to what is probably the most famous lo-fi image-capture device around, the Nintendo Game Boy Camera. While Nintendo still wins the resolution race, the MMC trumps it for color depth with its 64 vs 4 shades superiority.
This isn’t the first optical mouse-to-camera project we have reported on at Tom’s Hardware. Last year, we showcased the Doctor Volt Mouse Camera with its extremely coarse 18×18 pixel resolution . In contrast to Dycus’s work, the good doctor didn’t bother to redesign the camera housing, so it looked like a mouse on a tripod.
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bit_user If they'd use a higher-res sensor, I wonder if these could provide a workable solution for ultra high-framerate imaging. Considering how fast the polling rate is, on some gaming mice. Reply
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