Greetings all; I had one of those "colonoscopy" cameras you could buy on ebay for about $22 USD on my toy mill, and had it pretty well calibrated but hadn't put it to any real use as yet when I knocked it loose with an errant hold down bolt on that furniture joint carving jig. I'd been meaning to restore it as it also came loose in its teeny little tubular housing and would need so rtv to glue it back into the tubing so the cable couldn't pull it out the rear if the cable hung up. But making an alignable mounting was also a PITA, so its been waiting for me to find a round tuit.
But I also had the interest in the back of my mind, so when some supposedly hidef webcams showed up on ebay for <$9 USD, I just had to see if it was a any good. Having been caught, unable to buy spares when this one was damaged, I thought I'd buy one for each machine and a spare, so I bought 4 of them. They arrived yesterday, and I found that cheese no longer runs on this machine, which is wheezy with TDE replacing KDE. TDE is a fork of KDE at about the 3.5 level, and improvements have conentrated on bug fixing and stability, which they are doing a decent job of, I am not bleeding from all the paper cuts the new KDE4 or 5 is inflicting on its users. Anyway, installing cheese pulled in about 50 more dep files totalling 25 megabytes, and it still segfaults. But I took the camera out and plugged it into the Dell 745, installed cheese there and it works quite well, so I believe it will work with camview and friends too. Its about a fat inch in diameter & 2" long, and the 640x480 image cheese can show me is lots closer to realtime than the older camera ever was. Color too is excellent, amazing for a camera that sold for less than 8 dollars with free shipping. But I see its up to $8.88 in the two weeks since I bought these. 10% discount for 2 or more. That would make it $31.96 USD, which is what I paid for 4 of them. <http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-12-Megapixel-HD-Camera-Web-Cam-360-MIC-Clip-on-for-Skype-Computer-Laptop-PC-/291379169306?> Get them while they last folks. When I get the rest of the mills problems under control, that might be the next project as its small enough I can hide it inside the hollow bottom of the head casting of this GO704. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
