Hannah's New Camcorder!
As if we didn't need yet another method to record
something. Welcome the HannahCam.
Thanks to some ingenious people on the web and some spare parts lying
around my house I was able to hack a popular one time use video camera from CVS
using this
website. I didn't have a
Palm III cradle so I made due with what I did have. I soldered the 4 wires directly to the circuit
board. Then I soldered those wires
to a connector. Then I modified the
end just slightly so that I could put everything back together. Using an old usb
cable I soldered the 4 wires to the other end of the connector. The first time I soldered them they looked
better, but after looking at the schematic I realized that I had it backwards,
so I fixed it real quick. After
installing the drivers and software, the camera dumped all its footage
perfectly. I now have a camcorder
that records to a flash drive so there are no moving parts! I think Hannah was pretty excited about
the whole thing don't you?





