OneAndOneIs2

Having finally installed an OS that has workable drivers for my webcam "out of the box" I can finally have a play with my two.

I bought two identical cams a while ago: One to leave untouched, and one to tear apart and put back together as per the instructions here. By amazing coincidence, these are the very cams I myself bought!

So one of these cams, I took apart, removed the IR filter, and replaced it with a double-thickness black photo negative. And hey presto, I have a pennies-cheap webcam that displays infra-red!

The difference? Well, you might be forgiven for thinking that this is just two screenshots from the same cam, with one turned black-and-white. But they aren't, they're WYSIWYG images from two cams, one on each side of my monitor.

The lighting in this room isn't too good for webcam purposes, unfortunately, but you can see the difference fairly well.

Normal:

IR-hacked:

Screenshots courtesy of the Ekiga IP-phone thingie, as it's the only thing I've got installed that'll display webcam outputs..

(If anyone really wants to, they can probably contact me via Ekiga - oneandoneis2@ekiga.net is my ID, oddly enough. I've no idea if it works tho )

If the cables were long enough, I could show you that my monitor looks normal with the normal webcam, and looks blank with the IR one. But they aren't, so I can't. Take my word for it.

Now then.. I have this IR webcam. What, exactly, am I supposed to DO with it now..?