A nerd wanting to view docs for their mouse needs to sign an NDA.

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• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s a bit more than docs for a mouse, that’s technical documentation for a chip…

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  • ApertureUA@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, that chip is the sensor. But also a microcontroller that has USB… So basically it’s mouse-on-a-chip.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yea this is standard for sharing this kind of info with another company.

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  • ApertureUA@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, figured, but it’s not like someone’s gonna “pirate the chips” (and some people in a sweatshop can figure out a way to clone them anyway). Most of the time whenever I want to read a datasheet, I go to some site that sells components, look for anything in mention of PDF and then hope it’s not just useless (to me) graphs like resistance of some data line with ground to temperature.

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• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re not the only ones. Foscam demanded I fill out and sign an extensive multi-page developer’s agreement before providing 2 HTTP commands to control the siren and light.

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• Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What is the context here? What was the original inquiry?

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  • ApertureUA@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    here, the datasheet button links to a form

    Also, that’s not even the correct picture there, that’s for the plastic insert that goes with it

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    • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Vendor/supplier-only relationships are pretty common in the industry, unfortunately.

      But it’s SPI, so get a USB logic analyzer and with some LLM help you might be able to reverse engineer the thing. Maybe borrowing info with other Pixart chips?

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