Someone emailed me about ESCAPI (my simple webcam API dll thingy) a while ago. But now I'm in possession of a see-in-the-dark near-ir webcam. So, what am I going to do with it? Still no idea. After re-soldering a couple of times because my solders didn't survive closing of the case (sigh.), it's done and works. I connected 200 Ohm resistors to the LEDs, and those to the switch, and from the switch to the + pad. Using multimeter I found that the + signal is the last one (furthest away from the "USB" print) and - is in the center. Inside the camera, the board had five pretty large pads on a side with "USB" printed on them. but it's not like this thing is going to win any beauty contests anyway.
It's rather obviously tacked to the outside of the case, but I didn't have a small enough switch to put inside, but I still wanted to be able to disable the LEDs. I stuck the leads of a switch through the hole and glued the switch into the case. There was a hole on the backside of the camera, possibly for ventilation, or placeholder for some other designed but not implemented feature.
I simply needed to dremel the holes open, put some glue on the LEDs and drop them in. When I opened up the case to check where I could drill some holes for the LEDs, I noticed that the case was actually designed for two LEDs to be fitted in it.
#Speccy professional trick mod
Got inspired to mod the webcam further, adding a couple of IR LEDs so that the camera can work without some other IR light source, as well as a switch to turn the LEDs off if needed.
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