{"id":944,"date":"2014-03-17T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:55:44","slug":"10x-digital-zoom-f3-85mm-megapixel-dollar-store-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10x-digital-zoom-f3-85mm-megapixel-dollar-store-webcam\/","title":{"rendered":"10x Digital Zoom f=3.85mm Megapixel Dollar Store Webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took apart this $3 webcam from the dollar store. It has an EtronTech chip with the numbers eSP270D4 D4F105.11 printed on it. I took a high resolution scan of it because it was so tiny and hard to read.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t found drivers for it but I fear it&#8217;s just a dud. Like most cheap cameras that claim to be a Megapixel or more, it is in fact a 0.3 Megapixel CCD. That&#8217;s the same resolution as old televisions, and it&#8217;s quite blurry. It comes zoomed in. There&#8217;s no way to adjust the zoom. It&#8217;s just a zoomed in plastic lens screwed directly to the CCD. Unscrewing the back removes the lens from the CCD.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the circuit board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dollar-Store-10x-Digital-Zoom-Webcam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-947\" alt=\"Dollar-Store-10x-Digital-Zoom-Webcam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dollar-Store-10x-Digital-Zoom-Webcam-279x300.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dollar-Store-10x-Digital-Zoom-Webcam-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dollar-Store-10x-Digital-Zoom-Webcam-954x1024.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dollar-Store-10x-Digital-Zoom-Webcam.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took apart this $3 webcam from the dollar store. It has an EtronTech chip with the numbers eSP270D4 D4F105.11 printed on it. I took a high resolution scan of it because it was so tiny and hard to read. I still haven&#8217;t found drivers for it but I fear it&#8217;s just a dud. Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}