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Reuse optical sensors from printers & scanners

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norbert-heinzNorbert Heinz 05/25/2016 at 11:100 Comments

I have disassembled an old printer:

and created a video about how to reuse the optical sensors:

Next i will have a closer look at the four DC motors I salvaged from the HP 8500 all-in-one printer:

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