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Infrared Webcam HOWTO
Geoff Johnson writes "Some of the Slashdot readers may be interested in this page I put together. It describes how to make an ordinary webcam see in the near infrared waveband."
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Now Paris Hilton's new sex tapes will be done by webcam... meaning even worse video quality! Seriously, though, that's pretty sweet. Props to this guy for figuring out how to do it.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
Cause I'd really like to take my PC to the beach and get webcam shots of da honey's.
that's just fantatic!
Have you tried a universal remote that supports dog? It the pause button works then you need to talk to the patent lawyers.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
WTF is the timelapse movie doing there?
Its cool and all, but I thought a gallery of instructions would tax his server enough.
Sucker for punishment?
liqbase
Sorry, man. Slashdotting in progress.
Maybe you're confused here, and should check out some of those HOWTO's yourself (and read the article for once), to see what it is all about?
To use a webcam for looking in the infrared spectrum, is not the same as using infrared light for shortrange communications (IrDA, TV remote etc).
I've heard of a webcam, but never a wecam.
Hence the HOWTO, duh!
So the article details a cool hack, props. What I want to know is.....why was I able to download the 6.9 MB AVI file at the end. Isn't his server supposed to die or something? I can never download the files referenced by a /. link. Is something wrong?
Of course the video has nothing to do with the experiment...
Wow, just like those funny glasses I bought from the ad in the comic book back in the 60's.
U.S. notes not too interesting, just big black letters on light background saying "THIS IS YOUR GOD"
Everyone is still asleep from their late-saturday-night D&D sessions.
:-)
Give it time...
Will this mod void the warranty?
(it's funny, laugh)
We need a demo of pix of his hot neighbor in her nightgown. Too a HW hacker never sees her that way around sunrise.
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make install -not war
I unscrewed the lense end - the same way you fine tune the focus.
:(
it then proceeded to fall over due to the usb cable coming free in back.
I now have a little stack of lenses that I need to figure out the proper way to orient.
2 lenses - 2 ways = 8 combinations.
a third lense further out = x2 more combinations.
a fourth lense on the outsite = x2 more combinations.
Total 32 possible ways to re-assemble this little bugger!! DAMN-YOU!!!!
Worst of it is, the pink lense is a lense and not a flat glass filter. I cant use this cam
Anyone have a blow-up of this cam -
Kensington VideoCAM VGA PC Camera
Model#67015
comment directly in my journal
This guy must just be mad at his ISP or whoever does his hosting.
The ~7MB video file at the end of the page doesn't even have anything to do with IR video. It's like he wants us to take the server down.
So do him a favor and just download it 8 times.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Or just accelerate your webcam enough (toward the object you wish to photograph) to blue-shift the infra-red into the visible frequencies. Put it on a really-high-speed ferris wheel or merry-go-round and synchronise the snapshots to its rotation if you want to keep it "stationary". Compensating for the doppler shift in the signal from the camera is left as an exercise for the reader. But no disassembly or modification of the camera needed!
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
Tomorrow on Slashdot, how to turn an ordinary car into a convertible by removing the roof.
"I have a porkchop, you have a porkchop. I have a veal, you have a veal".
Somewhat to my amazement, this actually worked quite well despite my dramatic ineptness with electronics.
.. y'know.. valid somehow.
Pictures are in this thread.
I'd post a pic of the setup.. But I'm ashamed of it. Sellotaping wires to a battery just isn't
fortune -o