Turn Your Webcam into an IR Spycam

Turn Your Webcam into an IR Spycam

Posted 01/01/2006 at 11:07am | by Niko Coucouvanis

View the world through its heat, not its light.

 

WHAT YOU NEED
> Mac-compatible USB Webcam (we used a Logitech QuickCam Zoom, $79.95, www.logitech.com)
> Exposed 35mm film negative
> X-Acto knife or other slim blade

 

The Webcam craze is over, but you can still have plenty of fun with the hardware. For example, you can replace your camera's internal IR (for "infrared" or "infrared radiation," depending upon whom you ask) filter with one that blocks non-IR light instead, creating an IR-sensitive camera that will capture your world in a whole new way. Here's how. (This hack also works on Apple's iSight, but that camera's too pricey to gut just for fun.)

 

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Anonymous

January 23, 2007 at 11:04am

Video where you can view the transformation on a standard webcam:
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http://www.metacafe.com/watch/385098/transform_your_webcam_into_an_infrared_cam/

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