Re: Fwd: Technical details on the night vision monocle

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All my info on this item is here:

http://igargoyle.com/archives/2006/02/technical_details_on_spy_gear_night_v=
ision_goggles.html

Short answer: your best bet is ebay, they're out of production, and sold ou=
t.

nym
http://igargoyle.com/

On 2/15/06, jon sable <> wrote:
> 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 spec=
s
>
> 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=3D4104878
> >
> > 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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