Very cool project. I love the detail the poster went into in their linked video post about working with the sensor and their implementation.
> Optical computer mice work by detecting movement with a photoelectric cell (or sensor) and a light. The light is emitted downward, striking a desk or mousepad, and then reflecting to the sensor. The sensor has a lens to help direct the reflected light, enabling the mouse to convert precise physical movement into an input for the computer’s on-screen cursor. The way the reflected changes in response to movement is translated into cursor movement values.
I can't tell if this grammatical error is a result of nonchalant editing and a lack of proofreading or a person touching-up LLM content.
> It’s a clever solution for a fundamental computer problem: how to control the cursor. For most computer users, that’s fine, and they can happily use their mouse and go about their day. But when Dycus came across a PCB from an old optical mouse, which they had saved because they knew it was possible to read images from an optical mouse sensor, the itch to build a mouse-based camera was too much to ignore.
Ah, it's an LLM. Dogshit grifter article. Honestly, the HN link should be changed to the reddit post.
LLM or not doesn't matter as much as it's just bad reader-hostile writing with a dump of trivial details while also glossing over the relevant part (how does a mouse detect movement).
> Optical computer mice work by detecting movement with a photoelectric cell (or sensor) and a light. The light is emitted downward, striking a desk or mousepad, and then reflecting to the sensor. The sensor has a lens to help direct the reflected light, enabling the mouse to convert precise physical movement into an input for the computer’s on-screen cursor. The way the reflected changes in response to movement is translated into cursor movement values.
I can't tell if this grammatical error is a result of nonchalant editing and a lack of proofreading or a person touching-up LLM content.
> It’s a clever solution for a fundamental computer problem: how to control the cursor. For most computer users, that’s fine, and they can happily use their mouse and go about their day. But when Dycus came across a PCB from an old optical mouse, which they had saved because they knew it was possible to read images from an optical mouse sensor, the itch to build a mouse-based camera was too much to ignore.
Ah, it's an LLM. Dogshit grifter article. Honestly, the HN link should be changed to the reddit post.