If your camera is neither supported in the current release nor in current SVN trunk, it is possible thatit is an old camera for which the original gPhoto driver has not been ported yet (mostly due to lack of demand)
it is a new camera for which there is no support at all
Keychain Usb Mini Digital Camera Driver Download
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Over the past 16 years of working for SpyCentre Security, I have personally watched the transformation the hidden audio market has made. From large pens with 3 hours of battery life that could MAYBE download to your Windows 2000 or XP machine (and if you had a MAC, you had to trade it in for a Windows computer if you bought one of these digital voice recorders because there is no possibility it would have download to anything Apple!)
Our high-quality digital voice recorder with a built-in 8GB flash memory allows it to store 90 hours of recordings and last for up to 10 hours on a full charge (2-hour recharge). You can quickly switch to voice-activated recording or leave the device in continuous, depending on what the situation calls for. It can be downloaded to a Mac or PC, and forget about old clunky software folks, not with this little guy, plug and play your files with the included USB cable.
Time and date stamped recording is available for this model but only for PC users currently. But anyone with a Mac or PC can download the files from these digital voice recorders right onto their computers, and you don't need any software; once again, plug and play.
You can also leave this digital recorder around the house or place of business. And no one will think anything of it when you come rushing back into a room to retrieve your recording device because you "forgot your keychain." With 35 hours of data storage available, you will need to recharge this one a few times before maxing out the data bank.
The software CD contains drivers for the camera in both still and webcam mode (you don't have to do anything to the camera to tell it to be one or the other; it's switched from the PC), plusArcsoft Photo Impression 4.0 and Videoimpression 1.6 (are they any good? For the money, yes!).
The camera powers off automatically after 30 seconds of inactivity; you can also press the Mode button once and then the shutter button to turn it off immediately. Battery life won't be as good as you might hope, because this camera is of the old, non-flash-RAM type. This means its eight megabytes of internal memory (enough for 26 640 by 480, minimum compression pictures) is kept alive by the battery.
This is a long range viewfinder; put your eye to it and you'll just get a blur, but view it from at least a few inches away and you'll see an extremely miniaturised version of what's in front of the camera. If you're lined up right with the back of the camera then the viewfinder will help you frame your shot; if you're not, it won't. There's a knack to it, which I didn't quite develop during my testing.
Proper digital cameras these days come with driver software that makes them look like a removable drive to the computer. Actually, Windows and Mac users with recent OS versions often don't need to install a driver at all, thanks to USB Mass Storage Class drivers built into the OS.
There's a webcam driver program too, and the camera should work as a regular Windows Video source for whatever software you care to use with it. If you want sound, you'll need to plug a separate microphone into your PC, though.
It's cheap, it's cute, it's a camera. If you've only got $AU60-odd to spend on a digicam, you're not going to get anything much better than this, and its truly tiny dimensions and minimal replacement cost are real advantages. If you want a fun little camera that takes up pretty much no space at all, this thing may suit you just fine.
If you want a real camera for a low price, and don't mind getting something rather larger, then I strongly recommend you save up a bit more money and start trolling for old second hand digitals on the auction site of your choice. Between the tons of dealers selling new baby-cams like this one, you'll find proper big-brand cameras with one to two megapixel resolution (versus 0.3 megapixels for a 640 by 480 camera...) selling for $AU100 to $AU200.
Photography options for the Arduino are few and far between. Webcams aren't practical for applications like kite photography or public photography, unless you feel like buying a 200 foot USB cable. And current techniques for stand-alone Arduino photography typically try to capture raw image data from CMOS cameras popped off of cell phones...and believe me, unless you need to digitally upload or alter those photos in real time, you don't want to go down that road. Why isn't there a normal, cheap, run of the mill digital camera that's controllable by Arduino? Turns out there is at least one - and they sell it at your local drug store (CVS/Rite-Aid/Walgreens/etc.) It's those chintzy little keychain cameras that they sell for $10-15 a pop. The photography on them isn't half bad with a resolution of about 300 by 200, they can store between 20 and 240 photos (depending on the one you find), and it turns out the little guys were just made to be hacked. You can also do this same hack with a cheap 1 or 2 megapixel camera that takes SD cards if needed (see below), but we'll be stepping through the process used on the more commonly found 300 by 200 cameras.This Instructable will walk you through the process of disassembling, modifying and reassembling an off-the-shelf keychain camera. It will then walk you through wiring a simple set of transistor switch circuits that can be used by Arduino to turn the camera off and on and snap photos whenever your program desires. It'll also have sample code and plenty of pretty pictures.Before we start, a few notes: *The camera being hacked may change from blue to silver and back in the photos. Don't fret, the internals of both cameras are the same (I'm working with both at the moment for research.). This same camera is sold across the country in different colors, under different brand names and even with slightly different physical casings.*If this technique sounds familiar, it might be because what we're doing to the camera itself is very similar to the technique used by the CatCam, a project that went viral two years ago by putting small, time-lapse cameras on the collars of outdoor cats and watching where they go. The CatCam's technique uses a camera that's not easily available in the United States, and was written before Arduino really took off - hopefully this revisiting of the technique will help the DIY community rediscover and repurpose it in their projects. I discovered the CatCam as this project wrapped up, and both techniques were developed independently - so my technique likely varies from the CatCam technique; feel free to pick and choose techniques from the two.*If you are outside the US or willing to order directly from CatCam, the hackable camera they sell is of a higher quality - 1 or 2 Megapixel - and can save photos directly to an SD card. Very nice for many projects (but not necessary for all.) But if you want a camera today, head to any Rite-Aid, CVS, etc and pick up the camera shown here - a Digital Concepts camera, usually distributed by Sakar international.*My research actually has me controlling this camera via a stand-alone ATMega chip. If you're interested in learning that technique for some reason, let me know - if there's enough interest I'll whip up another Instructable. (I figured there'd be more demand for doing it via Arduino.)UPDATE: By request I've added the circuit diagram to wire the stand-alone ATMega chip to the chip as the last photograph below. It won't be helpful for many of you, and I apologize for that - I hope to give this step its due diligence - but for those who are determined, it's better than nothing (I hope). *This technique is being documented as part of my research at Carnegie Mellon University's Master of Tangible Interaction Design program, in Pittsburgh, PA. If you are considering going back to school, enjoy making things and are interested in the intersection of technology and design or art, drop us a line! :) Hope you found this helpful - comments on both technology and application are welcome! Feel free to write me directly or comment if you have any questions or want any clarifications.
You'll need a few tools and supplies before you can hit the ground on this Instructable. Let's run through them now, shall we? Tools:*A tiny Philips-head screw driver. (About the size of one you might use to repair glasses, or in a computer repair kit.)*Helpful, but not critical if you have long fingernails - a tiny flat-head screw driver to use as a plier.*Wire cutter/wire strippers*Helpful, but not critical - multimeter.*Soldering iron and solder. (Now, now, don't fret. All you'll have to do is heat up some existing solder and stick a few stripped wire ends into the existing connections. Only rudimentary knowledge of soldering necessary. You might even be able to get away with wire glue on some models, but soldering is safer.)Supplies:*An off-the-shelf Keychain Digital Camera. Often sold under the brand names "Digital Concepts" or "Shift." Sold at CVS, Rite-Aid, Walgreens, some Walmarts, and all over the Internet.*Helpful but not critical - a few spare AAA batteries. The camera should come with one AAA battery. But if you intend to use your project more than a few times or over long periods of time, you'll need spares - the camera eats them.*A few feet of insulated wire. (Either normal-gauge plastic insulated, shown, or thin-gauge paint insulated is fine - both have their pros and cons; I tend to use paint insulated because I sometimes make custom male headers for my connections.)*Breadboard or other protoboard.*Two longish pieces of white wire (for connecting transistors to Arduino)*Two longish pieces of black wire (for connecting ground from Arduino to breadboard)*Two longish pieces of red wire (for connecting high power from Arduino to breadboard)*Helpful, but not critical - an LED (for debugging output).*Two transistors (I use NPN 2N3904 transistors.)*An Arduino with USB cable. 2ff7e9595c
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