Disposable Digital Camcorder

Posted by Dave on 30 October 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi - there’s been quite a lot of talk in Make Magazine about the CVS Disposable Digital Camcorder. It’s a “single use” digital camera that costs about 15 quid and can record 640 x 480 movies at 30 frames a second.

You’re supposed to send it back to CVS (the US equivalent of Boots) who send you back a DVD. However, people have hacked it and with a little soldering you can attach it to USB and download the movies! Once its stripped down it’s pretty light - just over 30 grams - so people have been using in toy rockets and kites.

As I’m in the States at the moment I’ve aquired myself one and I’m wondering if this would be the ideal thing for the “Ipswich at Odd Angles” project or Matt’s backwards video. If anyone would like one drop me a line before Friday.

Cheers,
Dave

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  1. dave on 13 November 2006

    Matt, Martin, Craig and I set about the cameras with soldering irons with in-hand on Saturday and after a few software dead-ends (solved by this page) we now have three cameras in search of projects!

    Watch this space…

    Cheers,
    Dave

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