A brass framed monocle????

Does that make the webcam steampunk???
You should really fix the article so it says it’s steampunk.

Thx

Duck, I thought exactly the same, just didnt want to admit it ;)

Eureka moment is good, in that this is almost as old as the formula for buoyancy, I’ve seen the reading glasses trick many times before now, although it is possible he thought of it independently of course, I think we all had things we cleverly figured out only to find we weren’t the first.
But I’m sure intructables.com for instance has tons of examples of the same idea.

dollar stores are 100% without a doubt the bomb

@Duck, I thought the same thing :)

Thats briliant, now the webcam can look as geeky as the user!

Well, it worked for Hubble……

Yep, I thought he got some sort of old school diving mask/helmet and mounted the camera inside. I couldn’t figure out how that would fix the focus. *face palm*

I used a small crappy magnifier in conjunction with a camera to take very close macro pictures (in addition to macro mode). I just held the magnifier against the camera.
Works well !
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8335/p4112324.jpg

The lens is from the 70s..the 1970s..

I’ve been using my old broken Polaroid sunglasses (Non-Glass) for my webcam filters – helps remove the glare from those dorm windows – now if I can only find a filter to cut though the steam.

- Porky

This is -exactly- the same concept as the cell phone macro hack. You can buy screw-on magnifying filters for SLR lenses to shorten your close-focus distance.

>.< Also thought diving mask. Weirdness

These are the kind of hacks we can all appreciate. Simple, to the point and made from dollar store parts.

i could have sworn i was looking at a diving mask on display in a store. weiiird how so many other people thought the same…

I think we officially need a new tag “notadivingmask”

I’ll take pictures and post this somewhere sometime, but I did something similar. I had an old gooseneck lamp, a cheap webcam and a LED-based “tap light”. I wanted a way to mount a webcam so I could point it at anything I wanted without having to hold it in place and, preferably, toss a little light on the situation. I removed the “lamp guts”, disassembled the webcam and the tap light, strung the USB cable through the neck of the lamp* and mounted the tap light and webcam where the lamp’s reflector used to be.

The exposed lens assembly allows me to adjust focus easily, and the light keeps the scenes from the relatively poor-quality camera brightly lit.

* this is trickier than you might think. The cable was just barely small enough to fit in the center of the gooseneck, and the plug at the end was no help… Think this step through carefully.

MK 21 Dive Helmet….