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Infrared Webcam HOWTO

Posted by Hemos on from the the-fun-of-hacking dept.

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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  1. Can it see through clothing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cause I'd really like to take my PC to the beach and get webcam shots of da honey's.

    1. Re:Can it see through clothing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Im sure they wouldn't find anything suspisous about a guy with a laptop with webcam attatched.

  2. infrared wecam! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's just fantatic!

  3. Re:WEcam HOWTO? by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've heard of a webcam, but never a wecam.
    Hence the HOWTO, duh!

  4. OK..... by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  5. X-Ray Specs by lildogie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, just like those funny glasses I bought from the ad in the comic book back in the 60's.

  6. The day is still young... by Shazow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone is still asleep from their late-saturday-night D&D sessions.

    Give it time... :-)

  7. One question by gone.fishing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will this mod void the warranty?

    (it's funny, laugh)

  8. trashed my kensington videocam by emptybody · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

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    comment directly in my journal
  9. Disgruntled ISP customer? by The-Bus · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.

  10. alternative approach by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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