Floppy Disk IR Camera Hack

Step 8 Put it back together

When the glue has dried, reassemble the camera using all of the screws that you set aside earlier.

Comments

[thebodycopy]

This is, I think, exactly what I was looking for. I have an old Sony Cybershot F717 from 2003. However, the CCD chip is bad, I believe. (It used to take glitchy pictures, but now it's just black...except for the menu.) I am a video artist and am interested in hacking it for creative purposes....with the CCD chip dead, will this hack you posted still produce an image? I'm new at hacking this stuff, so please forgive any silly questions.Thank you SO much. Any advice is appreciated.

[dan616]

could i do this with a disposable camera?

[chubby8]

will this work in the dark? possibly with the help of some IR LEDs

[k.ghia]

Great hack. Now i just wish i had saved some floppy disks. Oh well, off i go to see if Fry's still stock these things.

[der_fisherman]

Liked your instructable as you have helped me in finding a source of a normal light blocker for my Sony video camera. Many, many thanks.

You may have made a small error with regards to testing the opacity of the floppy film, I think you meant that you should see "no" light through it.....but that was a small unimportant error to my mind......maybe yyou could just read it through again and correct in some way.....

I do believe I am correct in saying any (video as well) camera with a IR "Night shot" type of ability (needs no lighting and usually looks a "ghostly" gree with no proper colours, like my Sony video camera for example, does not have the normal light filter you mentioned, so the camera does not need to be dismantled to remove it.....(I am not going to take it apart, just to find out though!! Sorry!!) But I would guess that if it had the filter, it would not be able to do Nightshot!!

When I have tried it out and it does not work as I hope, I will come back and post again....correcting my errors......

By the way, I am slowly turning into an "instructables Junky"!!! Keep them coming.....

Many, many thanks for each and every one of them......all are really really good.

regards

Andy

[menahunie]

would it not have been better to just make a lens cover out of the floppy disk instead of having to take the camera apart?
Then you can removed the cover anytime.

[62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer]

You need to remove the filter from the inside of the camera that blocks most IR light from passing through to the CCD sensor.

[LuciferRex]

Hmmm...I may have to give this a whirl with my old Toshiba in my closet!

[62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer]

Try it out. Let me know how it goes.

[blkhawk]

Those sample photos, did you take them at night?

[62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer]

No, they were taken during the day. The one downtown was getting some large shadows from the buildings. The other two at the beach were taken when it was foggy (that's San Francisco for you).

[ghostman1029]

yeah good question...where those sample pictures taken at night?

[62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer]

No, they were taken during the day. The one downtown was getting some large shadows from the buildings. The other two at the beach were taken when it was foggy (that's San Francisco for you).

[spark master]

I like it I like it, but once you pull the ir filter off it, doesn't it just work anyway? I am a nimno on this so I gotta ask.

also if you feed it into a laptop and use it as a "cam" after doing this you can flood the backyard at night with uv (cover standard flashlight with a red and a blue filter), and you get spook a scope pics, no?

loved this

Sparkie

[AntzyP]

No it doesn't work if you take off the filter... The IR filter you remove blocks out the IR light so you only receive normal light. The new floppy one you put in blocks out normal light and only allows you to capture IR light...