3D printing enthusiast creates camera with a gutted optical mouse’s sensor — lo-fi 30×30 pixel camera took 65 hours to build

A 3D printing enthusiast has made a cute, functional digital camera using an optical sensor salvaged from a discarded mouse PCB. This is an admirable recycling-inspired maker project to see completed, and you can witness it in action in the embedded Reddit post below. However, don’t set your recycling old rodents into digital cameras’ hopes too high, as the results are definitely lo-fi.

I made a camera from an optical mouse. 30×30 pixels in 64 glorious shades of gray! from r/3Dprinting

After a quick…