he’s a regular old sam fisher.

Thats awesome, I’d like to see some shots from it as night vision, performance wise.

Great hack!

thats the coolest thing i have seen in a long time. Plus any beginner can make one. Really good!

i’ll put some screenshots up soon, they’re easy enough to snip right from the dixv videos it takes. depth perception sucks, just like any night vision system. my original idea was to connect a second screen to the same camera, but it would have meant soldering to ridiculously small pins.

VERY COOL, I’m tempted to try building one myself.

For two eye vision and depth perception would you need a whole 2nd camera rather then just two screens? After all we perceive depth as the difference between two images.

“my original idea was to connect a second screen to the same camera”

But a second screen displaying the same image wouldn’t give you depth perception.

no the brightness comes from the lcd screen in the back, with your eye that close to it you need it dimmed or it will hurt and be hard to focus.

Cool hack!

A dual version for 3D vision would be awesome, but hard to get right. I used to maintain pilot night vision goggles, and the hardest part was getting the two tubes collimated. If they’re not perfect, it’s extremely headache-inducing.

This could inspire some silliness, though. If you separated the displays from the cameras, you could increase the intra-ocular distance significantly, which would make you feel like a giant walking around in mini-world.

This is an amazing hack, major props
I can just picture someone walking around campus with one.
The brightness adjustment on the LCD was a great idea to add, especialy if one’s vision is going to be dark adjusted when they want to use it.
I definitly want to try it myself, maybe combind it with a high powered flashlight with a visible light filter.
G-A-N-G-S-T-A

tiuk – the older the camera, the better. They’ll all work for the night vision without hacking, but if you want to retrieve your recordings, you’ll need to hack it. Check out http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=319 for more info… v3.62 isn’t hacked yet, previous versions are.

I like the Idea, but I personally would have stripped the system and buily a custom housing from steel. I would be using it for paintball and Laser Tag out in the woods and It would come in handy, Plus it needs to be water proof. Thank God im an autobody technition. I can build anything out of steel and fiber glass. Then Id give it a camo paint job. Just to make it look cool. Creating custom parts isent hard if you have the materials and the tools. Not to mention the know how to do such a task. And a tip for getting a great looking paint job, Take the parts to a professional shop. They have the expertise and the skill to paint the pieces beautifuly. You may spend a bit of cash. But then again, if its to have a reputation as a modder and a hacker, isent it worth it.

It looks like you could remove some of the bulk, and do a few other things if you pulled the camera from the case, and possibly re-positioned the LCD display. You could even put the camera up, tap into the battery case for the LEDs (at risk of killing one battery faster), and use mirrors (like a parascope) to allow the camera to see from behind the LCD while being above it or something… Maybe that can be a future version :)

We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

errrr no edit function but like hawkeyeaz1 said (or im just exPanding on his idea)…
is there any way to have the lcd like in front of your eye while the camera is maybe on your back or something =P(he was, i think saying ‘reduce the bulk’ by having it[camera] like on your head.

//sry for speaking noob but posting on a ppc is annoying

I have a bunch of these http://www.unc.edu/~jjh/LED_Array.jpg left over from a similar project and I’m trying to sell them off. There are 15 Leds at 870nm, which is perfect for these cameras. Absolutely easy to power with either battery source or wall wart at 12volts.

Email me if you’re interested
http://www.unc.edu/~jjh/leds.html
Email address is on webpage

I have a camera on which I completed the hardware hacking, but the software is telling me there’s no known way to unlock my camera. Is anyone else having this problem? What did you do to get around it, if anything?

ummm i am kinda retarted so could u explain it easier ?? it looks cool as hell