Charger Foam
How can I dry out my phone?
I was at a foam party last night and I think the wetness broke my phone. I dried it with a hairdryer and it worked for a while but now it wont turn on. When I plug the charger in it lights up so I don't think its totally broken. Does anyone have any idea of how I could fix it/ dry it out?
put it in a bowl of dry white rice. let sit 2 days then should be fine.
High Resolution Ccd
Can someone please explain to me what produces video camera quality?
Knowing pretty much nothing about video cameras, i DO know that they capture the images using a CCD, but using simple, (uneducated) logic, I was thinking that one would achieve very clear high resolution video quality if he were to replace the video camera's CCD with a CCD of a high quality still camera. Would this work for achieving video of the same quality as high resolution pictures? If not, please explain to me how it wouldn't work, and how it possibly COULD work.
The size of the sensor is a factor as well as say lens quality, etc. Compact digital cameras and Digicams typically have much smaller single sensor than a Digital SLR and are thus less sensitive to light and inherently more prone to noise. Many more expensive camcorders have 3 CMOS sensors, one for each color. Read up on sensors at the links below. There is much debate over which is better CCD or CMOS.
Electric Strike Fail
How can i keep them away?
Mischievous children have, as of late, been testing my patience by continuously ringing the gatehouse buzzer and running away.
There is not a doubt in my mind, that these ill-educated brats are the product of poverty stricken guttersnipes and are therefore by nature, lazy and disobedient.
I have instructed my worthy gatekeeper, Brae, to make some adjustments to the wiring inside the buzzer, as to create a reverse current of sorts. This will administer a powerful electric shock to the next rascal who decides to provoke me, and hopefully teach him to stay away from my property.
I take it the rain will somewhat intensify this shock and therefore ringing the buzzer in a storm could prove quite dangerous, this is however a risk I'm willing to take.
If this fails, how else can I keep the rascals away?
Lol, well if this was a serious question then I would have answered inturn with an addiquitely serious answer.
The electricution is for the children but what if an innocent person pushed the bell?!
Well, either way you will have a lovely lawsuit on your hands and an equally lovely bed awaiting you at the jail house.
Just a bit of advice, master the art of clenching! You will need it in times when you have accidentally dropped the soap.
Ptz Pan
I want to use a camcorder as a webcam and PTZ?
I have no idea where to start. I have asked a couple people from the Sony website and they are useless. I don't think they know what I'm trying to ask or something because they are no help at all. All I want is to use a camcorder as a webcam, and at the same having a remote control in my hand being able to pan, tilt, and zoom it. I am looking to buy from sony. What do I need to do this? Is it the tripod that zooms, pans, and tilts? I am lost! Please help! =( thanks.
There is no single device that can control the pan, tilt and zoom if you are supplying the camera. Since the camera has the zoom... and the pan/tilt head will be made by some other company...
The cheap consumer web cams that do pan/tilt/zoom like those from TRENDnet and many others do what they do because the pan/tilt mechanism was built WITH the zoom function - all together.
There are more sophisticated security/surveillance cams that were also built with pan/tilt/zoom as port of their design.
If you insist on suplying the camcorder, a tripod or pan/tilt head mounted to the tripod can take care of part of the equation - but the zoom part in the camera gets tricky... you either need to magically integrate the camcorder's wireless IR remote with the pan/tilt function or the camcorder needs a LAN and THAT needs to magically integrate with the pan/tilt function. Since you did not tell us WHICH Sony camcorder you are using, for all we know, it can't even do the web-cam part anyway... but we have no way to know.
To the best of my knowledge, Sony does not have a consumer-grade PTZ camera or a pan-tilt tripod head... but they do have them in the professional products area... The Sony BRC200 and BRC700 are pretty good. For PTZ security cams, the Sony EVID70 and EVID100 are good, too.
For a cheap pan/tilt head, try the Bescor MP-101.
US $34.99
