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2/7/2005 5:26:39 PM EDT
I found this here: www.maushammer.com/systems/dakotadigital/DakotaDigital.html

and this

www.balerdi.com.ar/dakota/

It was in March's PC World

I might have to try this.  
2/7/2005 5:28:03 PM EDT
[#1]
tag
2/7/2005 5:35:08 PM EDT
[#2]
Here is the camera I think: www.ritzcamera.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&productId=13164501&bct=t1003%3Bc1012
2/7/2005 5:37:03 PM EDT
[#3]
Ill have to try this out on the weekend
2/7/2005 5:39:34 PM EDT
[#4]
Quoted:
Ill have to try this out on the weekend


Update when you do. I want a report before I spend $20 + A lot on Shipping (No Ritz cameras around here)
2/7/2005 5:42:04 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Ill have to try this out on the weekend


Update when you do. I want a report before I spend $20 + A lot on Shipping (No Ritz cameras around here)


Roger
2/7/2005 5:43:50 PM EDT
[#6]
But there is a Walgreens earth.prohosting.com/puredig/
2/7/2005 6:19:13 PM EDT
[#7]
Why would you hack it ?
2/7/2005 6:19:48 PM EDT
[#8]
I've been meaning to tear one of these apart for a couple of remote sensing projects of mine...

The next best thing is the little "pen camera" you can get at Walmart/Target, but it only has something like 640x480 resolution.  1 megapixel would be nice.

Jim
2/7/2005 6:23:12 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
Why would you hack it ?


So you can re-use it and print your own pics.

Normally, you can take 25 and then take it back for $11 developing.
2/7/2005 6:23:55 PM EDT
[#10]
tag
2/7/2005 6:36:12 PM EDT
[#11]
easier to just buy a real digicam....
2/7/2005 6:42:46 PM EDT
[#12]
.
2/7/2005 6:44:00 PM EDT
[#13]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Why would you hack it ?


So you can re-use it and print your own pics.

Normally, you can take 25 and then take it back for $11 developing.


Sounds like quite the rip off. At Walgreens we only charge $.29 for digital prints. Albeit we dont have disposable digital cameras, which IMO sound kind of tard.
2/7/2005 6:44:56 PM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
easier to just buy a real digicam....


I have a good digi cam. I am posting this because it could be a fun project and good for the "I can't post pics, I don't have a digi cam" people
2/7/2005 6:51:59 PM EDT
[#15]
I was hoping for:

remove cardboard
insert USB cable
connect to computer

not 40 pages of techno jargon
2/7/2005 6:54:35 PM EDT
[#16]
tag
2/7/2005 6:56:31 PM EDT
[#17]
Quoted:
I was hoping for:

remove cardboard
insert USB cable
connect to computer

not 40 pages of techno jargon
No shit.
2/7/2005 7:18:34 PM EDT
[#18]
I've read through most of the tutorials, and I still can't figure out just how in the hell to do the conversion.  I guess you have to be a serious techno-junkie (kinda like how Troy is to ARs) to understand all that crap.  
2/7/2005 7:24:44 PM EDT
[#19]
Another typical spend-50-hours-hacking-and-hope-it-works-to-save-a-few-bucks scheme?  Like, you could go mow lawns for the same amount of time and just buy a fricken nice camera?
2/7/2005 7:55:09 PM EDT
[#20]
Quoted:
I was hoping for:

remove cardboard
insert USB cable
connect to computer

not 40 pages of techno jargon


You were hoping for THAT out of an $11 camera?  The whole point of this is that they make their money on the processing fees, and you have to actually work a little to get around that.  That's what hacking is: working to get around an existing limitation.

-Troy
2/7/2005 10:28:05 PM EDT
[#21]
Eh? The Taser cam is better .
2/7/2005 10:29:45 PM EDT
[#22]
taggger
2/7/2005 10:33:24 PM EDT
[#23]
those cameras suck.  A camera phone takes comparable pictures
2/7/2005 10:43:26 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted:
taggger


Lockedon.....can your avatar possibly get ANY wierder????
2/7/2005 10:49:03 PM EDT
[#25]
Quoted:
Another typical spend-50-hours-hacking-and-hope-it-works-to-save-a-few-bucks scheme?  Like, you could go mow lawns for the same amount of time and just buy a fricken nice camera?


For my projects, low-cost is a good idea.  If I have an equipment failure and the device ends up:

1. Falling 1000 feet when the kite rig or baloon fails, or
2. Stuck in an underground passage, or
3. Crashing into the earth onboard a remotely controlled plane or other UAV,

I'd like to be out $10-$30 and not $300-$500.  :)

The best option so far are the 640x480 $19.88 'pen cameras' at Wal-Mart, but the image sensor and optics in this 1 megapixel disposable are better than that.  So it would be an advantage if I could reasonably convert it to use as a mobile still photo rig for remote sensing.

Jim
2/7/2005 10:59:49 PM EDT
[#26]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Another typical spend-50-hours-hacking-and-hope-it-works-to-save-a-few-bucks scheme?  Like, you could go mow lawns for the same amount of time and just buy a fricken nice camera?


For my projects, low-cost is a good idea.  If I have an equipment failure and the device ends up:

1. Falling 1000 feet when the kite rig or baloon fails, or
2. Stuck in an underground passage, or
3. Crashing into the earth onboard a remotely controlled plane or other UAV,

I'd like to be out $10-$30 and not $300-$500.  :)

The best option so far are the 640x480 $19.88 'pen cameras' at Wal-Mart, but the image sensor and optics in this 1 megapixel disposable are better than that.  So it would be an advantage if I could reasonably convert it to use as a mobile still photo rig for remote sensing.

Jim
* Stalker *
2/8/2005 5:34:52 AM EDT
[#27]
Quoted:

For my projects, low-cost is a good idea.  If I have an equipment failure and the device ends up:

1. Falling 1000 feet when the kite rig or baloon fails, or
2. Stuck in an underground passage, or
3. Crashing into the earth onboard a remotely controlled plane or other UAV,

I'd like to be out $10-$30 and not $300-$500.  :)


Used 1 Megapixel cameras can't be running more than $50 nowdays. Seems hardly worth the effort.
2/8/2005 5:40:43 AM EDT
[#28]
Quoted:
Why would you hack it ?


Because you can
2/8/2005 7:56:10 PM EDT
[#29]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Why would you hack it ?


So you can re-use it and print your own pics.

Normally, you can take 25 and then take it back for $11 developing.


OK but is any camera that they are gonna let you buy for $11 going to be such a POS that you wouldn't even want to hack it ?
2/8/2005 7:58:51 PM EDT
[#30]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Why would you hack it ?


So you can re-use it and print your own pics.

Normally, you can take 25 and then take it back for $11 developing.


OK but is any camera that they are gonna let you buy for $11 going to be such a POS that you wouldn't even want to hack it ?


It is 1.3MP. I bet they are going on the fact that they will get them back and resell them.
2/8/2005 9:48:18 PM EDT
[#31]
Quoted:
Quoted:

For my projects, low-cost is a good idea.  If I have an equipment failure and the device ends up:

1. Falling 1000 feet when the kite rig or baloon fails, or
2. Stuck in an underground passage, or
3. Crashing into the earth onboard a remotely controlled plane or other UAV,

I'd like to be out $10-$30 and not $300-$500.  :)


Used 1 Megapixel cameras can't be running more than $50 nowdays. Seems hardly worth the effort.


Well, if I'm going to tear it apart anyway (for remote or timed shutter activation)...

The disposable might be quite a bit of work, so perhaps a used camera would be better--but then I can buy four or five identical disposables in case they are...disposed...where the ebay cameras might not be available regularly.

Or I'll just be happy with the $19.88 wal mart unit.

Jim
2/8/2005 9:56:53 PM EDT
[#32]
You what the best thing to do with a disposable camera is?

To take it apart and use the flash charger to shock the shit out of something that's not expecting it.
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