Day 1 CVS disposable video camera is introduced.
Day 3 Camera disassembly is documented.
Day 7 USB pinouts posted.
Day 10 Videos posted, file formats explored.
Day 20 Hacked! Maker John Maushammer hacks the camera in less than 18 hours.
Day 22 MAKE: Audio interview with Maushammer.
Highly connected communities are getting smarter and more nimble, especially when there are Day 59 Videos can be downloaded over USB with mutually shared warranty-voiding goals. The MAKE: no need to desolder the flash memory.
Blog tends to become a clearinghouse of information during intense weeks of ravenous device modding. Day 64 Hack using a Palm III sync cradle posted. A favorite of mine is the digital CVS One-Time-Use
Video Camcorder. Day 65 How to build a helmet cam, with video, posted.
Introduced in June of 2005, the CVS disposable digital video camera was meant to be purchased for Day 78 Camera manufacturer Peer Digital says, under or around $30 (less with rebate), and eventu- “Do-it-yourselfers are not our target audience. It’s ally returned to the store for processing. After their sort of a non-issue.”
“processing,” which costs another $12, you get a
DVD back with your videos, a meager maximum Day 82 CVS camera auctions are removed from of 20 minutes. It’s a one-time-use camera, so you eBay, no reasons given. don’t get to keep it, but the idea of a low-cost digital video camera to use for a variety of projects is Day 83 Using the CVS camera in a rocket posted. extremely appealing to any maker out there.
CVS has released disposable digital still cameras Not too shabby. In less than two months, a crippled with much success (and those too were hacked camera went from sitting on the shelf to becoming for photography projects). When I heard about part of a rocket. We’ve posted dozens of how-tos, the CVS video version, I expected it to be used each project building on the past ones, from cameras in interesting ways. But what I didn’t expect was on RC planes to night-vision mods. The CVS dispos-how quickly and efficiently the makers, hackers, able digital has become more than it was initially and modders worked, both independently and intended to be, and that’s truly the most interesting collaboratively. If blog posts were fossil records, thing about this device — what you make with it. you could see the evolution of this lowly camera to Check out our latest posts on makezine.com/blog the maker-friendly, super-duper, all-purpose video and mod yourself an excellent (and cheap) digital camera it is today. video camera this weekend.
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