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17 years 5 months ago #47141 by dave_lillis
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Can you use this update ion the orig. toucam pro ?

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17 years 5 months ago #47352 by fguihen
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In short don;t attempt this unless you are confident with what you see on the above links, you will almost certainly ruin your webcam.

If you don't like the look of this, I strongly suggest you look in pre-modded webcams.


Thanks for the info Dave. This is exactly what i was looking for.No, im not very good at soldering at all, so think il buy a modded one. im thinking that buying a modded one will be pretty expensive. i was trying to mod myself to save the bobbies. do any of you guys know of a store/person/site selling modded webcam's?

Thanks for all the replies guys.

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17 years 5 months ago #47355 by ayiomamitis
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Can you use this update ion the orig. toucam pro ?

Dave,

If your question is directed at me, the answer is yes. My webcam is the 740k model.

Anthony Ayiomamitis
Athens, Greece
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17 years 5 months ago #47365 by dave_lillis
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Thanks for the reply Anthony,
When I get some pare time, I might look into this abit more.

Dave L. on facebook , See my images in flickr
Chairman. Shannonside Astronomy Club (Limerick)

Carrying around my 20" obsession is going to kill me,
but what a way to go. :)
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17 years 5 months ago #47478 by artyfarty
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did anyone here mod a webcam for astrophography? where abouts did you find the instructions? do you need a degree in electronics to do the mod?


From a quick look on YouTube I found this easy set-up: Click here 2min 34sec

And then this more advanced set-up: Click here 5min 30sec

The first one is simple enough to try but you would want to know your electronics (and have the tools to attempt the second one.[/url]

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17 years 5 months ago #47489 by TrevorDurity
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Howdy Dave,

I looked into this before and the firmware can be found here. home.zonnet.nl/m.m.j.meijer/D_I_Y/spc900nc.htm

It's basically just flashing the Toucam with the SPC900NC binary which gives access to YUY2. Better quality image apparently. I haven't used this however as I think I needed to use aviraw to convert the files which is a bit of a pain. Can't quite remember why I reverted back.

Trev

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