my roommate got me something fun from ewaste: A parallel port webcam!
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the box just has the camera, cables, a CD-ROM, and a tiny manual, so I'm skipping to the good stuff: OPENING IT UP.
It's got a surprisingly big board for a webcam, but it IS a webcam from 1998, so...
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So the camera daughterboard has only one chip on it, a Sanyo LC89901.
That's a CMOS Driver IC for 1/5" and 1/6" sensors.
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Here's the top of the main board, with camera daughterboard and parallel connector removed.
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Our Sanyo part on the left is an LC99067MA0.
No datasheet, but I did find a mention that it's a color digital signal processor. -
leading cackle influencerreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone excuse me i think you meant Window 95
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Then we've got two of these Samsung ram chips.
Each are 512 kilobyte CMOS DRAMs, so an entire megabyte of RAM.
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Now, the bottom of the board.
Two main chips and five small ones -
Foone🏳️⚧️replied to leading cackle influencer last edited by
@ruthan just the one!
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First up, an Alaris QV108-02A.
No datasheets on this thing. Date code of November 1998.
It's probably an ASIC/microcontroller that is doing the grunt work of converting the video data to something that can be shoved over the parallel port. -
And then Sanyo LC99057LA8:
This is another one I can't find a direct datasheet on, but it's mentioned in a different datasheet.It's a "color CCD camera CCD controller"
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This chip is an SN74F125D: a 4-channel 5-volt 3-state bipolar buffer.
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There's three of these NJM2360 DC-to-DC control ICs.
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And this tiny thing is a CSI 24C01J: A 128 byte serial EEPROM.
This is probably used for some internal calibration settings or something?
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So that's all the board. Now I need to figure out how to talk to it. My main PC doesn't have a parallel port, which is going to be a bit limiting.
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The camera has the part number FGB-V000-002700. No results, patent pending.
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also a couple people have pointed out that I'm wrong, it doesn't require "Windows 95".
It requires "Window 95".Just the one Window.
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@foone Am I tripping or is that thing a privacy cover?
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@renatodoesnotexist it is!