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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. 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... :-)

  6. 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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    http://alternatives.rzero.com/