Question about hardware modification

[Anthony Papillion II]

Hello Everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the right group to post this in or not but I
couldn't find anywhere more appropriate so I hope it's welcomed here.

I have a cheap Kodak EasyShare camera that can record video. I also
have a wireless network and a laptop. I want to modify my camera so
that instead of saving video to the SD card, it will stream it over
the network. I'm sure it's not a terribly horrible mod to do but I'm
wondering if anyone can give me some starter points?

Thanks in Advance,
Anthony

 

[Stephen J. Rush]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:04:00 -0800, Anthony Papillion II wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the right group to post this in or not but I
couldn't find anywhere more appropriate so I hope it's welcomed here.

I have a cheap Kodak EasyShare camera that can record video. I also have
a wireless network and a laptop. I want to modify my camera so that
instead of saving video to the SD card, it will stream it over the
network. I'm sure it's not a terribly horrible mod to do but I'm
wondering if anyone can give me some starter points?

Does the camera have a USB port? Most digital cameras have the miniature
version, usually under a cover. Did you get a cable with the camera? If
so, you don't need any hardware mods at all. The operating system can
treat any USB device as a pseudo-disk, so you should be able to share it.

 

[Joel Koltner]

"Anthony Papillion II" <papillion@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I have a cheap Kodak EasyShare camera that can record video. I also
have a wireless network and a laptop. I want to modify my camera so
that instead of saving video to the SD card, it will stream it over
the network. I'm sure it's not a terribly horrible mod to do but I'm
wondering if anyone can give me some starter points?

By far the easiest method would be to just buy an Eye-Fi card:
http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Fi-Card-Wireless-GB-Memory/dp/B000X27XDC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1201038371&sr=8-1 -
- although I'm not sure whether or not it would handle video (it's more
designed for photos...).

You're probably better off just getting a wireless webcam in the first place.
Modifying your camera, unless your have lots of experience hacking generally
completely undocumented hardware and software, is going to be very difficult.
People do hack some cameras when it's clear they're running well-known OSes
such as Linux or vxWorks, but in your case you're be adding significant
hardware as well unless your know for a fact that the camera's hardware
supports SDIO and you have a WiFI SDIO card around.

What I'm really saying here is that -- unless you can find a site where your
particular camera has already been thoroughly hacked -- this is really a quite
advanced project and you're likely to spend many, many months working on it.