Observe that what a human eye cannot see is being captured very easily by the webcam.
Start a webcam software and switch on the Infrared LEDs. Create a dark environment either by closing all windows and curtains in your room or wait till sunset. Now that your camera is hacked and the infrared array is ready, you need to try out your camera in the dark. If you hack your mobile phone camera, you can use a single IR LED to secretly take pictures at night. Let your imagination run wild with ideas. Assemble it on a cardboard or plastic ring and mount it around your camera lens, or create miniature spotlights to spread it around your house. Alternatively you can design your own LED arrays. Solder all the LEDs in serial and finally solder some wires to connect it to the power adapter or battery. If you are not familiar with electronics and/or soldering, you could ask a friend for help or have the circuit assembled for you by an electronics technician. Once done, mount each LED on a veroboard or general purpose PCB and create your LED array. Do your calculation and assign the number of LEDs to be deployed on the job. So ideally, if you plan on using 12 Volts to power the array, make sure you use at least 10 LEDs in series. Try out this workshop at your own risk.Įach LED runs on approximately 1.2 Volts DC (confirm the voltage ratings of the ones you buy). The best part is that nobody would even know that there is a camera as nothing is visible in the dark. We shall also show you how to make your own infrared light source so that you can use the webcam as a surveillance device at night. Basically, all you need to do is remove the IR filter completely. This workshop helps you remove the IR filter in order to get the camera to capture images in the dark. The reason-infrared light can agitate the image quality and produce overexposed pictures. This filters out the IR rays so that only pure visible light can pass through. But there is an obstacle here-manufacturers of digital cameras implant an IR filter in the pathway of the lens and the sensor. The main image capturing chip inside a digital camera is highly sensitive to infrared light. A web camera, a screw driver, a knife or a needle, some IR LEDs, a solder iron, some solder wire, some regular wire, an AC-DC voltage adapter or batteries and veroboard/ general purpose PCB (optional)
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