Make Podcast: John Maushammer's CVS Rocketcam

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John Maushammer likes to hack small things. He's hacked the cvs disposable camera and put it into a model rocket!

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Posted by: lwatcdr on May 15, 2006 at 6:09 PM

Does anyone know if the current CVS camcorder is still hackable?
I thought that they closed the hole.


Posted by: _l0ser on May 16, 2006 at 10:40 AM

What happened to the comments?


Posted by: morcheeba on May 16, 2006 at 12:19 PM

The hackability is still a cat-and-mouse game. If you get a new camera, it may be a while before it is hacked. Check here for more info:
http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=17

If you don't want to mess with the hacking portion of the project, good news. Pure digital has started selling these cameras without their business model attached (essentially pre-hacked cameras), for about $130 (wow, that's a lot of money!). You can also use one of their normal cameras in the rocket and just return it to them for processing (total cost = $45 per 20 minutes).
http://www.puredigitalinc.com/products/pandsvideo/index.html


Posted by: Bre on May 16, 2006 at 1:38 PM

In order to fix the mp4 link and the aggregators link to the media file on this post, I had to repost it and I lost the comments. Please repost your links!


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