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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. Video camera plus TV-in card? by leonbrooks · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's about as home-made as you can get, given how cheap "real" (but crap quality) USB webcams are these days.

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  2. You can start with an old flatbed scanner by vojtech · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take the linear CCD array from it, add some mechanics, and with some luck you can get nice (in the range of megapixels) images.
    These guys did it already: here and here
    Better than a webcam, and pretty good for understanding how digital imaging works.