[ILUG] [OT] Old / cheap webcams

[Niall O Broin]

On 29 Mar 2005, at 14:54, Ewan Oughton wrote:

> 	As many of ye know, Im an archer, and was thinking shooting at a
> cheapo webcam would look *cool* - Ive done it before but have always 
> aimed
> off slightly to avoid hitting it - this time I want to hit it. So, does
> anyone either have any webcams they want to donate, or know a source of
> really cheap webcams? Lidl have one on the 31st for 16.99, but 17eur a
> shot is a bit expensive :)

You could do this at much lower cost by mounting a strong metal mesh, 
of a gauge which will stop the arrows, very close to the webcam. I 
haven't tried this, but unless the webcam has an incrediby short focus 
lens, the mesh will be very much out of focus, and should only result 
in a slight blurring of the image, which as it's from a web cam, won't 
be all that wonderful in the first place. This of course will only work 
with Linux compatible webcams.



Niall