Making a Homemade Webcam?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday July 11, 2004 @04:39PM 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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homemade webcam by jpmkm · 2004-07-11 17:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

Step 1: Buy a webcam.

Step 2: Take webcam apart.

Step 3: Make a webcam out of parts from step 2.

A webcam is a lot more electronics than optics, so your high school photography class won't help much here. A lot of the stuff that goes into a webcam is going to be surface mount only and very tiny. I understand you want to learn about them, but you might be better off buying one and taking it apart and studying that.