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From: ejensen@server.uwindsor.ca (Erik Jensen)
Subject: Re: Anyone hacked a Connectix QuickCam "eyeball" ($99) camera.
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 16:34:15 GMT
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In article <544@yak.ca.boeing.com>, tpd6908@yak.ca.boeing.com (Tom
Dickens) wrote:

>In article <3h6j6g$sbc@cit1.cit.ac.nz> srwmcln@baby.bedroom.gen.nz (Clive
Nicolson) writes:
>>Anyone hacked a Connectix QuickCam "eyeball" ($99) camera to
>>any thing other than a Mac?.
>>
>>Clive.
>
>No, not yet.  I just received a QuickCam last week.  I've opened it up to
>provide access to the lens focus.  As is, it has a focal length from 18"
>to infinity.  By adjusting the focus I can see items clearly that are a
>couple of inches away.  

How did you open up the case? Did you have to irreversibly damage it to do
this or does it come apart easily? I tugged a bit at mine but wasn't sure
if it would work without breaking some plastic tabs or soemthing.

Erik.
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Erik Jensen                                   ejensen@server.uwindsor.ca
Department of Physics                         
University of Windsor                          
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