Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked

morgue-ann writes "The $10.99 Dakota reusable digital camera announced in July was usefully hacked on November 6. First attempts to extract picture data took 10 hours to read out 16MB, but new code for Linux and Mac and Windows lets you get pictures quickly over USB and view or print them without Ritz's help (and with fewer of your $$)."

Comments

slashdotted already...

[chrispy666]

is the webserver running on one of those cameras ?

the resolution sucks.

[beckett]

As soon as i heard that there were going to be disposable digital cameras, i knew it would just be a short wait until someone hacked it. i don't think that this will really be a big problem for Ritz becuase this hack requires actual effort: the majority of people that want a camera would rather spend a hundred bucks on a real camera rather than spending 20 bucks or so for parts and spending a few hours with a soldering iron for this mediocre piece of crap.

if it was a 3 or 4 mp camera i'd be willing to expend the effort to do this, but it's only 1.3mp... check out these crappy pictures! I'm not minimizing the hard work it took for the people to get the camera working, but my time is worth more to me than the lousy pictures i can get from this camera.

use in model rocketry

[Jafafa Hots]

about the only reasonable use I can think of this hack is for stuff like model rocketry, where you want a reusable but really cheap camera in case it gets destroyed in use.

Oh hooray

[cubicledrone]

Look what has been accomplished! We actually invested TIME and MONEY to extract data from a lousy $10 camera. Big $#*)%#*@ deal. Up next: how to reuse paper plates to reduce your dish budget.

Is having it for free REALLY that important? I hear there are digital cameras now that you can take unlimited pictures with. Why, they might even be for sale. Imagine that!