On 29 Mar 2005, at 14:54, Ewan Oughton wrote:
> As many of ye know, Im an archer, and was thinking shooting at a
> cheapo webcam would look *cool* - Ive done it before but have always
> aimed
> off slightly to avoid hitting it - this time I want to hit it. So, does
> anyone either have any webcams they want to donate, or know a source of
> really cheap webcams? Lidl have one on the 31st for 16.99, but 17eur a
> shot is a bit expensive :)
You could do this at much lower cost by mounting a strong metal mesh,
of a gauge which will stop the arrows, very close to the webcam. I
haven't tried this, but unless the webcam has an incrediby short focus
lens, the mesh will be very much out of focus, and should only result
in a slight blurring of the image, which as it's from a web cam, won't
be all that wonderful in the first place. This of course will only work
with Linux compatible webcams.
Niall
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