Modify a USB Webcam to Take Astro-Photography Pictures

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Came across this great tutorial, by Gary Honis, while browsing through Make Magazine’s blog the other day on how to modify a webcam so that you can easily use it to take astronomy photos through your telescope. The project looks quite simple and will only require an additional $20-$30 in parts plus an old webcam. He uses a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 however I’m sure you can find a way to do this with just about any webcam. The tutorial site was down yesterday as a result of traffic overload however Gary appears to have put it back up. Link to Gary Honis’s astro webcam…..

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Login to your pc with your face

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Checkout Keylemon which is a
free software that uses facial recognition from your webcam to log you into your pc. Of course this is not totally fool proof as one can most likely just hold a picture of your mug up to the camera. But nonetheless it is some very cool technology right at your fingertips for free. Link…