Dear Lazyweb,
Please make me a poseable periscope-like device for my Macbook. Please make it with mirrors, like the periscope you would build as a kid with a milk carton and your mother’s broken make-up mirrors. We can put the periscope over our built-in iSights and then we can move the periscope around and record/watch stuff in any direction. Get my drift?
Please let me know when this adhoc device is ready and send me pictures so I can marvel at it and maybe even build one myself. Then, make sure you tell Phillip Torrone over at Make Magazine that you built this thing. You’ll at least get some decent web traffic from a good HOWTO and Phillip might even put it in Make and you can impress your friends with it.
I may even be so bold as to predict that Phillip can whip this thing together himself in a few hours and it may appear on the Make blog sooner than later. I considered sending it just to him, but I think that a Macbook periscope race may be slightly more fun.
That is, if this thing is worth building…
Ready. Set. Go!
Thanks in advance.
-Scott
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You’re Scott Moschella, of course we’ll do it. Why is the king of the internet neglecting the blog readers?
Welcome Back Scotty!
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Hi!
Are you going to navigate with this periscope on dry land?
I can imagine how many talks this would arise
Could you please publish here if you find the scheme one day? Very interesting to me.
If only I could claim this as an original idea.
Here is something to try for less than $10 ( S&H).
Two small bright mirrors, such as these
http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp?pn=3052323
could be placed perpendicular to each other
and aligned in front of the macbook…
The mirrors are small and light.
Tape would hold them in place, or get creative.
Two right-angle prisms would also work,
though they’d be heavier and more awkward.
I’ll make a prototype for anyone wanting
to send me a macbook. Maybe Griffin or
another will make and sell them for $$$.
What a great way to record a talk or presentation or
whatever…
USER —-> screen —–> scene
mirrors
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I did just find the remnants from a kaleidoscope I made in Sunday School utilizing mirrors, duct tape, golf tee, bike reflector and leftover D&D model paint. Not quite the same, but then again my aged G3 iBook couldn’t actually handle a periscope anyway!
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There is already such a device for about $10 or so dollars. I can’t remember where I saw it. It had to have been on Macworld.com , MacObserver.com or on OtherWorldComputing.com
It doesn’t rotate, but it will allow you — via a periscope like setup of mirrors — to redirect your MacBook webcam to the scene in front of your MacBook (instead of your own mug).
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Interesting gadget for mac. I would ocnsidering try it
Thanks for the info. I have always been a windows kinda person but I have been hearing Mac’s don’t have as many problems so all the info I can get on them is appreciated. thanks.
Interesting gadget for mac
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Cant wait to check it out.
I would have to agree with delnerdo. Definitely worth trying out.
Nice gadget. Not a mac fan though.