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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 05

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
7h 28m
English
Make: Community
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A tripod bracket for your iSight gives you the freedom to place it anywhere you want.

Illustration by Damien Scogin

iSIGHT TRIPOD MOUNT

Point your webcam anywhere you want.

By Steve Vigneau

In mid-2003, Apple announced a FireWire camera called the iSight. With true autofocus and the ability to capture 640x480 video at 30 frames per second, these cameras have become quite popular with Apple users. However, one of the camera’s most innovative features — the mounting hardware — is also its most irritating quirk.

The iSight uses a bracket that supports one end of an Apple FireWire cable, and this cable snaps into a FireWire port on the bottom of the ...

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