I was watching this [Hack an optical mouse into a camera with Arduino and Processing] and was wondering if it could be used as a cheap method of scanning barcodes.

Optical Mouse Hack as BArcode Scanner?

Lakes April 30, 2013, 9:09am 1

I was watching this

and was wondering if it could be used as a cheap method of scanning barcodes.

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