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Archive for March, 2010

How to join loc-line modular adjustable hose without a special tool

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Loc-line segmented adjustable hose

In this post I describe a simple way to join sections of loc-line hose with just a bit of wire. Loc-line make an amazing product. It is a hose composed of short sections connecting with ball and socket joints. The hose can be bent into the shape you need and it will stay there. It is great for making your own gorillapod for example. Connecting the sections with your bare hands is very hard so Loc-line sell a special tool for joining the sections. But you don’t need to buy that – read on and use my easy wire method instead.

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irSight: Converting iSight webcam to IR webcam

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

I’ve started working on a project to perform low cost eye tracking. As part of this project I need to have an infra-red (IR) camera. So I’ve converted an old Apple iSight firewire webcam in a camera sensitive to IR light. In this post I describe how to convert the iSight camera to work with IR light.

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