Making a Homemade Webcam?

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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Re:"gurus"

[Anonymous Coward]

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[JVert]

Wow, nice crack your smoking there, care to share next time?

In class did you make your own film too? cause thats what you are asking about if you want to make your own digital camera. If you simply want to make a box around a webcam and are asking slashdot how to do so, put the scissors down and step away from the construction paper. You are not ready young grasshuffer.