Dave Kellam

Here’s an easy-to-follow guide for hacking up your webcam to take pictures in infrared. Essentially all you have to do is take apart your webcam, remove the little plastic plate over the camera sensor that acts like a filter and replace it with two black chunks of film (from the end of a roll of negatives). I have an old 3com HomeConnect, it wasn’t that hard to do but I pretty much had to take the whole thing apart. If that’s what you have, you’ll need a small allen-key, a small star screwdriver and possibly some tweezers (although it’s easy enough to drop the film bits into the holder).

Just finished up the 1.0 release of my WordPress plugin. The biggest new feature is an options panel so you don’t have to mess around with the settings. There are some new features included on that panel, like the ability to empty the cache , you can now change the RSS cache timeout for Magpie and specify tags to go before and after the image.

At some point, I created a development site to test the plugin out on. When I was writing the delete function I didn’t have things quite right and ended up deleting all of the WordPress admin panel files. It’s fixed up now, but if you’re weary, delete things manually.