Cvs Camcorder
More CVS Camcorder Fun
Via Mark Welker I saw this reference to an easy installer for the Saturn Disk Mounter program, which mounts your CVS Camcorder as a USB drive to your OS X box if you have the magic hacked cable. I installed the program (which included libusb), plugged in the camera, and voila! There it was, mounted...
read articleConverge South, Day 2, morning
I've decided to break this up into several chunks because the post was getting so long that I fear people would skip over it and miss good stuff. First up was the "Policing the Media" session with Duncan Black, ie Atrios. While there was nothing wrong with the session, which was quite good...
read articleNight Vision for CVS Camera
Lately for whatever odd reason, I've been watching Attack of the Show and I just saw on a recent episode where David Randolph did a hack to make the CVS camcorder into a night vision camera. It's as simple as removing the IR filter from the lens and adding in IR LEDs, a switch for the LEDs and a 9...
read articleMore CVS Cameras in the Wild
I heard my name mentioned on the most recent episode of the Linux Link Tech Show. Allan was using a CVS camera and mentions having watched my video. Even before that, though, I knew he had one because I could hear the telltale sounds of this device's startup and shutdown during the show. The same...
read articleWindows Friendly version of the CVS Camera Video
I've gotten sick of people (all on Windows as best I can tell) telling me they can't see the video of my CVS camera film, so I reencoded as MP4 and uploaded it. I deeply apologize to anyone that subscribed to the RSS feed and will get two copies of it. I don't know any other good way to do this. I...
read articleVideo is Up
OK, I just decided to stop fighting it and go with OurMedia for now. The video of me hacking the CVS camera is now posted. I know it is too long, the camera work is shaky, but it's the first video thing I have ever done and the first time I have ever worked a camcorder. Subsequent ones should be...
read articleClambake Episode for August 28, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 28, 2005. I talk about hacking the CVS one-time use camcorder and creating a videoblog about the process; I mention that I have coined a new term for people who can use these hacks but not originate them -...
read articleVideo Teaser
Recently I went down the street to a local CVS pharmacy and bought one of the one-time use camcorders, the ones you can hack to get your videos onto your computer. I actually have a videoblog that I recorded with the camera about hacking the camera, for a nice bit of recursion. I documented the...
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