{"id":654,"date":"2009-11-25T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T22:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=654"},"modified":"2009-11-25T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T22:46:13","slug":"the-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2009\/11\/25\/the-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this project, I’m going to need a microphone and a webcam.\u00c2\u00a0 So, why not both in one?<\/p>\n

\"Doesn't<\/a><\/p>\n

I bought a pair of these cheap-o webcams with mics at Office Depot a few months ago, because they were cheap and small and I thought that maybe I could use them to build a 3D video camera of some sort.\u00c2\u00a0 Since that time, they’ve been sitting on the floor next to my computer, under a TV tray holding an Odyssey 2 system that I haven’t put away since I wrote about K.C. Munchkin! and Pac-Man a while back.<\/p>\n

I finally opened up one of them today and plugged it in and was fairly amazed that the camera didn’t completely suck.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, it seems to be the best quality webcam I’ve ever bought.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe there’s been a sudden leap in webcam quality over the past few years that I haven’t been aware of, but the previous ones I’d bought, even the one that was supposed to be good, were merely\u00c2\u00a0producers of 320×240 blurriness.\u00c2\u00a0 This thing can take 1.3 MP pictures that turn out better than the first digital camera I had.<\/p>\n

The picture above was taken using it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s pretty good, even in these non-optimal lighting conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 Previous webcams would only be a blur without a\u00c2\u00a017 million\u00c2\u00a0candlepower halogen lamp melting the face off the subject.<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s still a webcam…\u00c2\u00a0 This thing won’t hold a candle to\u00c2\u00a0my Canon SX10.\u00c2\u00a0 But still, for a bargain bin impulse buy, I’m impressed with it.<\/p>\n

At least, I’m impressed at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 As I use it an discover that it has some annoying limitation, I may change my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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