Apr 18
iSight
When I got the new iBook, I picked up a couple iSights as well… so Nancy & I can video conf when I’m onsite in Detroit.
These things so rock… very sweet.. a run of the mill webcam, they ain’t. Built in dual element noise reducing mic, auto focus, 640×480 resolution, 30 fps video at 24-bit colour, built in image processing, mounts for various applications… cool stuff.
One beef though.. the mount that is for use with a laptop screen (sort of hangs on the top of the screen) takes up a cubic space… think 2 arms that are perpendicular… one across the top of the screen, one sticking back & up on which to mount the camera. This thing does not flat pack! It’s an awkward shape. So i did what any geek would do.. I hacked it. One of the mounts is magnetic with a nice powerful magnet (no.. not got mounting it on the top of a CRT), and it just so happens that on Saturday we bought some super-strong disk magnets.. the same size as the base of the magnetic iSight mount. A couple minutes with a saw, a file, and some superglue and I had McGuyvered the laptop screen mount to use the magnetic mount to hold the camera. Now I have two pieces that will pack flat. Nice. I’ll get a pic of it up here shortly.