Craft & Design

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HOW TO – turn your digital camera into an IR-camera

HOW TO – turn your digital camera into an IR-camera

Infrared-Camera-16 Make pal and Make faire participant Mark writes “…an extensive insight view of how I transferred my old digital camera (which would probably fetch only $30 on ebay or such) into a infrared camera. The whole idea is just that a lot of people probably have old cameras laying around, collecting dust, so why not make one of your old cameras an infrared one?” Link. Excellent how-to and documentation.

CVS firmware changed…new work around

CVS firmware changed…new work around

Cvs-0080Matt writes “CVS changed its firmware in more recent versions of the one-time-use camcorders, apparently to stop hacking. The old mathods/applications don’t work, so the camerahacking kids have been trying to sort it out. Here’s one tricky hardware method that some ppl have had success with.” This clever hack just uses a wire, then you’re all set to download the videos again. Link.