> Hi Elias,
> GameBoy used to come with a low resolution(16x16 I think) chip which
> they called "Artificial Retina". It was (may be it still is!) popular
> among robot enthusiasts. These chips used to come for auction at ebay
> and some of my friends bought dozens at a time, because they were
> inexpensive. Try searching for Artificial Retina on the web.

The GameBoy camera had much more resolution than that.

However, an optical mouse imager has 16x16 resolution (or in some cases
18x18).

I'm about to start working on a project to connect a bunch of these to
a JStamp.
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