Re: Fwd: Technical details on the night vision monocle

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wow that is cheap!  they are currently out of stock 8( i hope to get one
anyone have a link to the manufacturer?  that walmart gives jack for specs

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Panthera Altaica wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:09:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: Panthera Altaica <>
> Reply-To: Wearable Hardware Discussion List <>
> To: Wearable Hardware Discussion List <>
> Subject: [Wear-Hard] Fwd: Technical details on the night vision monocle
> 
> Here's some stuff  I've been siting on while the list was down.
>
>
> Wal-Mart has them for $49.88 (online only)
>
> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4104878
>
> Anyone figure out what you need to do to connect a color NTSC feed to
> one of these yet?
>
> Dr. Panthera Tigris Altaica
>
> --- Abe <> wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:59:12 -0400
>> From: Abe <>
>> To: 
>> Subject: Technical details on the night vision monocle
>>
>> I've managed to do the the technical footwork, but unfortunately, the
>> wearhard servers ate my last mails, so there has been a bit of a
>> delay
>> getting the information out. If you could forward this to the list,
>> I'd be much obliged.
>>
>> The four-wire ribbon cable between the camera and the display
>> board appears to carry the following signals:
>>
>> Brown: Video Signal
>> Red & Orange: +5 volts
>> Yellow: Ground
>>
>> I removed the brown wire completely and attached halves of a video
>> cable with RCA connectors on the ends. The shield of the video cable
>> went
>> to the ends of the yellow wire (ground) in the display, and the
>> center
>> conductor was soldered in place where the brown wire (video signal)
>> used to be.
>>
>> This way, I can use a RCA cable butt connector to hook the camera and
>> display back together, or seperate them and put a computer in the
>> middle.
>>
>> Everything works, in that I can get video output from the camera on
>> my
>> Commodore 64 monitor and can send a picture to the display from a
>> spare video camera. There is one small snag, though.
>>
>> The entire device is built UPSIDE DOWN in relation to the wearer's
>> head! The video comes out of the camera with top and bottom reversed.
>> The cyberdisplay is installed upside down, so everything looks right
>> side up.
>>
>> I think this was done so that the ribbon cable for the cyberdisplay
>> would point into the body of the device rather than off to the other
>> side.
>>
>> I'll add all this data and more pictures to my web site as soon as I
>> fix the server. It went down after a minor flood of the basement that
>> it's in, but I don't think the two things are connected.
>>
>> As with any hardware hacks you find on the internet, your mileage may
>> vary. These plans may help, or they may eat all the cheese in your
>> house.
>>
>> If you order from Wild Planet, you can use the coupon code VIPTOYS to
>> get 10% off. That's not as good as Dr. Altaica's Toys R' Us deal, but
>> it may be good if Wild Planet drops their prices.
>>
>> As a side note, I have a camcorder eyepiece that used a similar color
>> scheme for its power, ground, and video signals. Has anyone else run
>> into this brown/red/yellow scheme before?
>>
>
>
> Dr. Panthera Tigris Altaica
>
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