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Can you do this with dead and old phone cameras?
Your videos are great .
So after soldering just plug into laptop and it will automatically recognize the camera and install the driver???
Is it possible to use this camera in fpv drone ?
On a budget, so like what, a few hundred dollars... Oh, you mean for less than a latte kind of budget. Outstanding.
nice house matt
how about fpv pilot cam?
Hey Matt! this was awesome! How about making a USB webcam from an old phone camera module?
Fabulous work 👍🏻 can you tell me how to make it NightVision camera with a laptops 💻 cameras ?
EXTREMELY low resolution cameras .usb cable length limits application distance, always run computer - useless security system DISLIKE!
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Brilliant!
use the female usb port u chopped off to make some otg cables for phones, if u didnt throw them away already
Excellent instructions.
Hey how could this work for making a dash cam? Great videos btw!
Another fantastic and relevant diy. Thank you mate.
Excellent ☺️
Hi, i wonder if you could do the same to mobile camera?
what if the web cam has 7 wires
thanks for this, i've been looking into CCTV but didn't want to fork out on something like a ring doorbell.
I'am ask if it's possibile, for increase the number of camera, use a USB hub or it dosn't work?
Can you do this with a tablet too?
Thx now I can build an endoscope and see what's inside my rectum.
use raspberry pi here.
this is great. I do however have a question. is there anything that could be done with night vision. would the laptop cameras work at night?
Just a question many of you may know: I got one of the cables broken during my noob manipulation of the webcam and now I'm trying to find USB connectors to the Webcam board itself as the one shown in 2:22. Can these cables/components be acquired by themselves in electronic shops and so on? The point is that I made some searches using words like "USB internal connectors", "motherboard USB connectors" and others but I guess that i'm not finding the appropiate keywords since the products I'm finding cannot be attached to that type of plugs.
I have no knowledge about this sort of stuff but after a bit of googling I found something that looks similar when searching for "Micro jst 1.25"
Mine just burned after doing it
I have a question ! how did you conntect the 5 wire from the webcam to the 4 wire of the usb cable I do understand Data to data (2 wired) / power to power (2 data) / so there is only the ground left and another one ... what do i do with them ?
I love your videos. I also want to call you Reek every time I get a notification. Damn you, GoT!
Why would you buy a USB camera, when you can get a camera that works over Wi-Fi for $5. Jk I know this video is old
Does this work on your android phone direct too or is it better to add a diode to the positive when using on a phone?
hi, i really interested this video, can you make it again but from broken phone camera?
Now you can also find phone cameras for free, is harder to do?
I have a question given this video was made 2yrs ago. If you wire them to USB c can you get more than one camera per connection?
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I wonder if it is possible can be put in motorcycle helmet...
what if you want to have sound as well as video input?
Im so confused. He found ground, power, 2 data cables, but there were 5 cables on every camera. What about the fifth one??
Hi, am concern with the webcam cable you just extended behind the screen lid and connected the USB extension, how is configured out?, kindly plz.
Can you use cameras from old cell phones
i tested this on two different webcams, and it never fucking worked (maybe cuz i'm dumb, idk)
This video is very helpful indeed can i use an external 5v supply rather than using USB power if it is possible it will help me using existing wires with multiple cams
i will recommend to use raspberry pi pc rather then Old Laptop cause old laptop are not that efficient and you can use power bank better power capacity then old laptop.
Good Day hope all is well, Hope I am not too late on this topic And was hoping that you can help me, I am using an old Samsung laptop Camera, it does not have copper screw holes and has the following Brown, Black, Red, White and a Purple wire Help would really be appreciated thank you
it looks like one of my data connectors isn't receiving any power, anyone have some tips for me?
Can you do this with old cellphone cameras?
mine shows up as a keyboard any fix for this?
Can you send me a old laptop camera
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could someone answer me on this: can I use an iphone 7 camera together on a raspberry pi 4 project? Or the pieces os apple devices are somehow locked to work only with apple devices?
A salvaged iPhone camera? I'm not sure if its wiring follows any protocol shown in the video.
do you have anything on covid related solutions?
Would it be possible to make a diy doorbell with camera and a microphone and speaker so you can communicate with the person outside the door.
this worked perfectly for me. thanks alot for the video
Who are you. I mean seriuosly what are you made of
This is the video that correctly uses the term DIY. Keep up the good work!
I can see TI's busting into old laptops trying to make this stuff right now. I can tell you this is a target individual there is nothing no camera system nothing can stop the system for breaking into your house and changing the dates on your camera settings and also bleeping out when they were in and when they were out for some reason I don't know if it's from nanotechnology they can see every single solitary thing that you do everything. So if you try to put out a camera they know how to bleep it or something when they come in the house and change it I don't know how they do this I'd be fascinated if someone that is a tech person could tell us that would be awesome so I could tell our groups how they're doing this
I run 2 cams thru my tower at home which is on the internet. I then run " Any desk " which I have set on my tower and to my shop laptop ( also loaded with "Any Desk" I can operate the Tower from from shop and record everything in my house onto a 3 TB HDD at my shop. I have had this for almost 4 years and it works great. Any Desk has Password lock outs.
what about the memory storage?
You might as well buy wireless cameras cheap on amazon or ebay for under $20, because buying USB extenders will cost you more than a cheap wireless cam. plug and play and down load app. your done in five minutes.
I've got an old laptop webcam that has a microphone attached to it, will it still work on USB or does it use a differnet data connection?
If you don't have a multimeter to check these cables Then look for a print on the (probably) back of the chip Mine says 1.3.3v 2. D- 3. D+ 4. Gnd 5. M-CLK 6. M-CAT And the manufacturing date which is something fun to acknowledge Mine is from Dec 2012😀👍
or just use some SBC (raspberry,orangepi e.t.c) instead of laptop
How could one make these into ethernet IP cameras I wonder
He is very technical, good job
Imagine Matt smashing that laptop prior to filming the video to make a point...
Hi Matt, i tried this on a crystal eye webcam from a old Asus Aspire 5930 (working PC but nicked it out as i don't use webcam on laptop). Connected it pr your instructions after finding what cable goes where (simple to do with a working Laptop). i do get power into the camera, but it's not detected at all when i plug it into a USB port. This camera are suppose to be a 720p so pretty good, thus i waned to reuse it. Any suggestions what i can try? Feel free to send me a private msg
Always enjoy ur videos bro really really helpful thanks a million
Thanks, this is great! Is it possible to add wifi to the recycled webcam setup?
My webcam gets warm. Should i use resistor?
How to make webcam like this video from camera from smartphone.
Difficult. The camera circuit of smartphone is integrated into motherboard. Only camera module can be removed from smartphone.
if the camra dont work add 2 diods in series with the 5v rail
great inspirational video, thank you. Question: Do laptop cameras have additional wires, what are they for?
Only five: 2 power + -, 1 ground, 2 for data.
did you know if a browser has a padlock in the corner it means it is a sucure connection so it means you dont need a vpn because your conection is encripted so vpns are litrly a scam
learn something new today thanks to your great sharing video.
thanks for the house tour coming to rob your house now
Awesome clearly teaching 👍👌
A raspberry pi network is really simple to set up, and the Pi 0W is wifi enabled, can be run from any usb charger, and is only $10 USD. So you can set up a new camera for less than 20 bucks, and you don't have to run usb cables all over the place.
Device Descriptor Request Failed (Unknown USB device) is all mine will show no matter how i connect the data wires. sigh
i just get a "usb device not recognized"
Would the vids be memorized on hardware or not?
what are the drivers????
I was looking for a video like this a couple weeks ago. I was trying to attach an old laptop camera to a raspberry pi Zero. I couldnt find any information on the wiring, and i ended up plugging it in and it started getting hot - I didnt use the right wires. This video is EXACTLY what i needed, and I found it accidentally in my feed! Thanks!
Hii sir can you make.a webcam that used phone camera
In the same way can we salvage our old smartphones or nokia phone's camera also to make cctv cameras???
Say how to do it with phone
Hey do you have any idea how can I recycle phone cameras?
When spying wasent on my check list
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Great.thank you
Excellent vid. I have a box of these that Ive saved from all the laptops I have scrapped. Now the question is how to connect them via wifi.
I tried many but only part I could go is "USB Device not recognized" then swapped data lines and not detecting them at all like nothing is plugged in :(
i have tried this and i cant seem to get passed the "Device Not Recognized" warning i have tried switching the data wires but still the same thing
I have a couple old laptops that I stripped down to components because they are dead. Thought I'd try making 2 security cameras as show in your video. When I looked at the cameras the don't have the multiple wires that run through a tape to attach to the motherboard. One is a 3 or 4 year old dell and another is an old old Sony Vaio. Each camera sports only 2 wires. The Vaio cameras wires join the wires for the display an that that goes into a clip on what I assume it the motherboard. What can I do to make these into a security cameras? Thanks!