Astro-Beano

Novice astronomer and photographer near Dundee, Scotland, starting out with his first telescope. Also dissects webcams & puts them in bird boxes, and tinkers with Raspberry Pi projects.

Saturday, 31 March 2012

Birdbox Battles

A bird box can be a dangerous place... photos from Saturday morning after the Blue Tits have been setting up home for about a week: Is br...

Birdbox Update for the week

At the moment at least, not that many people seem to be reading the bird box blog posts , perhaps because thus far they've been more on ...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

CCTV lenses on an Xbox Webcam

Anyone following this blog will know I've been hacking Xbox Live Vision web cameras for fun. This started with removing the lens, and at...

Saturday, 24 March 2012

Xbox Birdbox Mk III

Yes, I made a third bird box with an infrared modified Xbox Live Vision webcam. This used 4 IR LEDs as in my original design , but splayed e...

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Another eBay webcam with Entron inside

I've been using eBay late at night again for impulse purchases... this was a £2 webcam claiming 5.0MP (which turned out to be 0.3MP agai...

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