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Making a Homemade Webcam?

Posted by Cliff on from the experience-from-creation dept.

Space-Bot asks: "I remember back in high-school photography the simple and very basic homemade cameras that we made that surprisingly worked fairly well. Amazing how something so great started so basic. These days we have all these high tech gadgets that do it all so quickly you never really think about any of the work behind it. Well I would like to start to understand the modern digital cameras more and I figure what better way then to make a homemade webcam of some sort. Might some of you Slashdot guru's have some ideas or experience for my project?"

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  1. "gurus" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not "guru's". There's no need for an apostrophe there, you twit.

  2. you can do it!! by michaelbuddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know what I have learned back in grade school will apply to this project.

    step 1. get shoe box
    step 2. get needle
    step 3. get charged coupled device CCD
    step 4. make small hole in box
    step 5. put CCD in box.
    Step 6. Connect shoe box to PC
    Step 6. aw crap, go to Circuit city.

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  3. Oh, guys, it is not 'Funny', it is 'Insightful'! by PaulBu · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least I wanted to make the same comment... ;-) And remember 'Funny' does not give one karma points...

    Paul B.