@thayeeboi890 I had to fight against those dragons in my old job, they always beat me. The Bambu Lab ones are way easier to use, and they actually print better and faster on average, so if someone is looking for one, they're a very reasonable option.
You realize the irony of using the Pi right? The Acorn Archimedes used an ARM processor, ARM used to stand for "Acorn Risc Machine". The Pi is also using ARM, modern ARM. When you were using it over the network, you made the original coffee pot configuration INSIDE A ISIGHT HOUSING! AAAAA that's cool as heck!
Acorn Computers of course being a Cambridge company, the Owners starting out-ish at Science of Cambridge (SoC) then starting Cambridge Processor Unit LTD (CPU) and then onto Acorn, I might have to watch Micro Men again
I never drank coffee prior to going to college for computer science. Now 10 years later, after leaving college, I casually drink a pot a day. This was the invention we all needed.
I have worked in IT for 5 years and started studying at uni for Cyber Security. I am yet to drink coffee. Coffee makes me feel worse than going without coffee and if it didn't make me feel that way, I probably would be chugging it.
I categorically avoided caffeine for all of high-school, like, never even tried it... Then I joined the navy, and if there wasn't coffee in my hand I was non-functional. It got so bad I eventually started drinking pre-workout at 5x the recommended consumption. Then I got out of the navy, and toned it down a little bit. Back down to regular coffee. Then I moved to Seattle, became a Security/Platform guy for big tech... Now I consume at least 3 shots of espresso a day, haha. Me and coffee/caffeine have an understanding that it's the only chemical dependency I am allowed to have and whenever I am on extended vacations I am going to wean myself off just to ensure I still can.
19:14 and that is you CAN'T use your iPhone while it's serving as a webcam. You can answer calls using another Apple ecosystem thing, but that's it. You can mirror iPhone screen to Mac, but not all Macs and iPhones support it.
Most support it through Airplay. 3utools has a nice tool for that, there are also those carlinkit boxes which emulate that (and carplay) too and just spit out the unencrypted low latency video stream over usb.
Hi! Zoom tech here. Since webcams are made for video conferencing the priority focus is lowest bandwidth. Apple and other laptop manufacturers try to focus on things like dynamic range rather than resolution since the software they use will reduce the quality to a max of 1080p. Even when bandwidth isn’t a concern the client system needs to encode than decode the streams in real time. The hardware can be easily overwhelmed trying to decode a couple 4K streams in real time let alone 20+.
Interesting! But wouldn't it possible/better for at least mid to high level webcams to give the user the chance to use their sensor to their full potential for specific usecases like streaming or recording video locally? Giving them choice, basically
@@MentalEdge because it's there mainly to take pictures and mobile phone SoCs have highly efficient video processing circuitry that's just not present on x86 devices. Your PC has to either process video with no acceleration on the CPU or send it to the GPU and rely on the accelerator there. So a phone just streams data over CSI straight to the relevant pins on the SoC, while a PC - if you were to use a high quality camera - would have to receive a massive stream over.. something?, put that into RAM, send it to an accelerator over PCIe or completely saturate a few cores to process it on the CPU and _then_ it could save it. Hence why people using DSLRs for a webcam use them with a capture card. This webcam project works because the Pi Zero is doing the video processing directly on the Broadcom silicon there. For webcams to have high quality output they would basically need a more expensive chip integrated into them and people buying webcams just wanna connect to a video call so the market is probably risky and companies may be unwilling to try it
I just want to say, you are an excellent storyteller. You took what could have been a 2 minute quick and easy video, and instead crafted a wonderfully entertaining and informative presentation on such a wide variety of topics. Hats off!
I can't believe f4mi has decided she is going to exclusively make Linux terminal content going forward. Wishing you all the best with this change in direction!
Your channel is easily the one I enjoyed the most in 2024, and I'm glad you're out here getting big boi sponsorships and continuing to do the weirdest shit possible with them. May your channel continue to grow like crazy as more people discover your batshit antics in 2025 🎉
Something i like a lot about f4mi videos is their constantly changing hair style and color. Which one is the real one? Which ones are the clones? Guess we'll never know.
@@pixelsalad Or free sponsored 3d printer and free 3d models. Or $400 3d printer and MILLIONS of free 3d models. Anybody buying a printer to print a single object would be the most humongous idiot on the planet.
I was super interested in how one might make a webcam from scratch but you just bought a raspberry pi module and followed a setup tutorial. congrats on technically doing the thing by your definition but I feel insanely clickbaited
One thing I've wondered for a while now, is why are webcams STILL using such tiny sensors and no proper mechanical zoom/focus functions, when you can easily make a webcam with a much larger sensor because you AREN'T restricted by space like phone cameras. Also, why are they STILL doing ANY of the processing? Even your version STILL has to do the encoding on a separate system using a totally different OS which adds unnecessary lag to the signal. It's literally connected to a whole ass much bigger and more powerful computer that have dedicated video encoders in the CPU and even the GPU, which are sat there doing bugger-all for most of the CPU/GPU life - just send the sensor signal to the COMPUTER ITS PLUGGED IN TO!
It's honestly crazy to me no company has simply released a webcam that uses one of the amazing camera sensors that smartphones have now. We have phones that can shoot HDR, 240FPS, 4K, and yet webcams are still stuck struggling to do SDR 1080p 60fps in a decently lit room. Or hell, put a DLSR sensor in a shell with a focusing lens. Every few years I check to see if a company has come out with a decent webcam and and disappointed to see it hasn't happened, or if it has, it's basically the cost of an actual smartphone.
Most people really do not need to buy a webcam. Camo allows pretty much any smartphone to become a webcam. With my phone I can go 4k60 if I really want to and specify which lens to use. Most webcams are a waste of money.
They're out there, just intended for industry use. Doesn't prohibit one from snatching such a camera from ebay though! Recently got a 2K one with 10bit stream and 110FPS. Basically a plug and play DSLR in a small package.
The problem is the data rate for high resolution high quality video is pretty high. The sensor itself is rather cheap, but the electronics needed to interface them aren't. (A smartphone SoC costs a bit of money!) And I guess there isn't big enough of a market to justify designing a custom USB interface & signal processing chip for this purpose
15:24 if bamboo lab's slicer supports it, you should switch from rectalinear to organic supports. Organic supports use significantly less filament making them faster, cost effective, and easier to remove than the alternative.
you are like a ghost in my youtube, idk you name, idk a lot about you, but you're always on my youtube and i always recognize you by your video style, and your videos are always new to me and related to my tastes, it's like magic
the last seconds of the video just reminded me how I used my old phone as a webcam for a while and then as a cctv cam. I bought a dedicated Webcam and it was basically the same quality, just a wider lens, which didn't really come as handy as I thought it would. edit: I also just noticed in my notifications that f4mi liked my other comment which I removed when I finished watching the video because I thought it was dumb. It said that you can use cheaper SBCs as long as they have CSI and maybe a video encoder, but I wasn't sure if they were available in raspberry micro format, as I didn't forsee how this weird project gonna end up in something that actually looks like a webcam.
You know what's even more of a racket? Handheld digital microscopes, especially those for medical use (eg for skin doctors). Can easily go to four or five figures, and it's just a cheap webcam with some lenses and some old software incompatible with anything else. If anyone has a reasonable solution I will be in debt with you.
Industrial camera with macro extenders and long CS mount lens. Shouldn't go above 300 bucks if you search well enough 😊 I'd say the lens will be the biggest expense, the cams itself are pretty affordable if you don't need high FPS, resolution or darkness performance. Some brands to look for: PTGray, IDS, Basler, The Imaging Source
A new viewer here and your video made it to my frontpage, didnt study for my computer security exam but enjoyed all 19 minutes of this. new subscriber gained (love the half life refs)
Hey F4mi! I’ve been following you for a long time, and your channel is exactly the vibe I love. Every time you put out a video that seems random compared to the last, I like your channel more and more.
Does anyone remember when both webcam manufactures and Google both accidentally made everyone's cameras public? Early cameras had no security, as "Who's got a computer to access it?" anyhow? But also, "Who's gonna know where the buttons, are, so we should broadcast it on the internet for those who need to remote into it..." Well, you get lots of pseudo random or plain default web pages for every single camera. Guess which decade this was? Yes, the first decade Google started crawling the web. So it was soon found, that Google had a list of thousands or more cameras, all publicly broadcasting.
Well... it was the early days and no one thinks of security... and on some level they still don't. Many nanny cams and home security cams have the essentially same security of the shitty WEP security of the Wi-Fi standard (anyone that's smart will not use that these days... WPA2 or even WPA 3 *IS MUCH, MUCH* better these days) plus the factory standard security password equivalence of _Password123_
5:15 The printer singing immediately reminded me of the Floppotron, except that this piece of tech is probably meant to be able to produce those sounds.
The quality of these videos is getting dangerously high and i'm totally in for it. An intresting topic with an engaging storytelling in the big '25? That's not very usual. Keep it up F4mi 👊
the weirdest part about the iSight is that it's not actually using the DV standard. you would think it would just be a DV camera but no. also it's funny how long the iSight held up like they're still good in terms of webcams despite being so old.
This might be one of two big coffee makers in computer history, during the IBM-Microsoft work on OS/2 Microsoft employees working at IBMs Boca offices put a coffee-machine in their offices and put a box labeled "Microsoft confidential atop it" so IBM security people couldn't look at it.
LMAO, like 2 days ago I decided to look up what the first webcam is, as a preamble to looking up when USB Video was introduced And right away I knew you were gonna talk about the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, speaking of. Perhaps we'll have wcoffee someday, X window system won't be here forever EDIT- As for the video itself, chef's kiss honestly. All it needed to be and a little extra
The A1 is a damn game changer, its so good. I click a button on my phone and it just MAKES THAT THING. It levels itself and compensates for its own vibration and stuff, its so cool!
This is so cool!! My dad’s been complaining about the quality of his monitor’s ancient webcam and really disliked the idea of setting up the mount for Continuity Camera every time when I showed him how to do it. When I looked into getting him one, anything with half-decent quality was going for over $150 CAD! I have an old iSight in a drawer so this might be the perfect gift idea, thanks 😊
This video is so fun! Love the engineering and so nice to see the it working so nicely! Also congrats on the bambu sponsor - you are now officially part of 3d printer youtube :)
I just bought 3 iSight Cameras in ebay due to this video. Not sure how I have never seen this channel before. I would watch for the spicy commentary alone.
yeah its users can be annoying sometimes marking what is not filler as filler, if you want you can help out by marking again correctly/downvoting what is not accurate but all of that is outside of my control and yeah i don't think that is filler in the first place, if they only wanted a dry video tutorial about "making a pi based webcam" this is not it, as i clearly stated in the video too
Peter Knetter get on this RIGHT NOW! 6:14 He would build a Webcam out of cardboard.... and GLUE! Pretty cool webcam that's a hybrid of an iSight, you're seriously one of the most special channels on RUclips I've ever found since the beginning. The way you edit videos is exactly how I imagine and overexaggerate things in my head. You also talking about Renderware makes me happy
For anyone that wants to do this for real world use just get a capture card and a nice camera with HDMI out. It isn't as fun as this project but it is much better quality wise. If you are going to be like "wahhh I need it to connect to the internet" you can figure something out with OBS
@@Blutzen If budget is an issue use your phone. Droid cam OBS works great and you can also very likely use recent android phones as a USB C webcam with very little setup Again this video is about having fun, not budget reasons or otherwise and that is okay
"i built my own" by buying all the hardware that someone else built, printing a model that someone else built, and sticking one into the other, with multiple step-by-step guides that someone else wrote
i said built, not designed, and the entire thing is running using open source software so software wise you can tweak it however you want, so where is the problem here? not saying this to be confrontational or anything, i just think the title is pretty much explaining exactly what i did lol
@@f4micom thank you so much for replying to this message, I know it can be incredibly challenging to interact with criticism on this platform, and I applaud you for doing so in such a calm and constructive manner. I do understand the sentiment of OP though. I really like build videos, and they usually cover some novel problem with a novel solution, and the storytelling of overcoming the challenges, expected or otherwise, and that's what I'm after. Your video was greatly produced and shot, it was funny and entertaining, and you did a great job with this upload, but I found it to be of a different genre than the one I expected clicking on the thumbnail. So I'm definitely putting it in the "not for me" basket, but that's just a personal preference, and I think that's what op also tried saying
Yeah, f4mi has a point. If you look up the definition for the words "built" and "designed", you would see that these are two different words with two different meanings. Building something is to simply put some components together. Designing involves putting in thought on both the look and the function of a product. There's planning in design, while building is simply the act of constructing. So, I hate to say this, but your disappointment is entirely due to your own expectation and bias. She did not mislead you with the title. It's both grammatically correct and accurately describes what she had done and shown to you.
My phone has a built-in usb webcam mode. Plug it in to any PC or mac and choose either front or back camera. The quality is basically unmatched by anything. And it's free.
wait, 0:44 is this the history of how the webcame came about? to watch a pot of coffee so people didn't have to get up to get one, only to find an empty pot? Aye~~ good stuff, excellent video
Thanks to Bambu for trusting me with this silly idea and actually sponsoring this video!
Get your A1 here: shrsl.com/4svjo
I really like that Just in case.
already have an ender 3
same @thayeeboi890
@thayeeboi890 I had to fight against those dragons in my old job, they always beat me.
The Bambu Lab ones are way easier to use, and they actually print better and faster on average, so if someone is looking for one, they're a very reasonable option.
I literally had this SAME idea, I do 3D design and have always loved the original iSight camera. So cool
You realize the irony of using the Pi right? The Acorn Archimedes used an ARM processor, ARM used to stand for "Acorn Risc Machine". The Pi is also using ARM, modern ARM. When you were using it over the network, you made the original coffee pot configuration INSIDE A ISIGHT HOUSING! AAAAA that's cool as heck!
Acorn Computers of course being a Cambridge company, the Owners starting out-ish at Science of Cambridge (SoC) then starting Cambridge Processor Unit LTD (CPU) and then onto Acorn, I might have to watch Micro Men again
the fact that Raspberry Pi and ACORN are Cambridge companies
I never drank coffee prior to going to college for computer science. Now 10 years later, after leaving college, I casually drink a pot a day. This was the invention we all needed.
Only a pot 😭
I have worked in IT for 5 years and started studying at uni for Cyber Security. I am yet to drink coffee.
Coffee makes me feel worse than going without coffee and if it didn't make me feel that way, I probably would be chugging it.
@@Ozzianman tea?
@@tyw877 tastes bad and it still gives me the jitters.
Me and caffeine are not good friends.
I categorically avoided caffeine for all of high-school, like, never even tried it... Then I joined the navy, and if there wasn't coffee in my hand I was non-functional. It got so bad I eventually started drinking pre-workout at 5x the recommended consumption.
Then I got out of the navy, and toned it down a little bit. Back down to regular coffee. Then I moved to Seattle, became a Security/Platform guy for big tech... Now I consume at least 3 shots of espresso a day, haha.
Me and coffee/caffeine have an understanding that it's the only chemical dependency I am allowed to have and whenever I am on extended vacations I am going to wean myself off just to ensure I still can.
all the best tech videos start with a 1 and a half minute rant about coffee machines
there's a reason 418 I'm A Teapot is a thing
One and a half minutes in I was hey, wasn't this supposed to be about web cams? while being 100% invested in the story
Coffee machine are the fuel
Remember kids! If you’re buying with an affiliate link, don’t use honey! 5:32
That’s all fake, average RUclipsrs believing everything they see
@Tworpet its not fake, honey sucks
@Tworpetwhat leads you to believe it’s fake? There’s been lots of people proving it
@Tworpet average harry potter fan thinking they have some elevated understanding of everything
@@funginet lmao what’s Harry Potter got to do with it, autistic ahh
Goes to hairstylist: Give me the Homebrew Channel
The quality of your videos get better which each upload!!!
19:14 and that is you CAN'T use your iPhone while it's serving as a webcam. You can answer calls using another Apple ecosystem thing, but that's it. You can mirror iPhone screen to Mac, but not all Macs and iPhones support it.
Most support it through Airplay.
3utools has a nice tool for that, there are also those carlinkit boxes which emulate that (and carplay) too and just spit out the unencrypted low latency video stream over usb.
Yeah, and it only works with Mac, if you have a PC you're just out of luck :/
@@s.tunafishlook up droid cam or camo
Classic Apple L
works on my pixel, classic android W
Understandable, have a nice day.
We need to go further. We need to be beyond Overkill. We need to make a 4k 60 fps webcam with RGB lighting
In that case, you can use a Banana Pi CanMV-K230D Zero instead of the Raspberry. Super impressive specs with hardware support for AI models.
I absolutely concur! 4K60 is the way to go!
Let me know when a 120fps version comes out - I'll be the first in line.
DSLR and a capture card. Go full circle.
mirrorless and newer dslr can stream via USB
@@just_mdd4Oh they do exist and the manufacturers want you to quote them for the price, so that you know they ain't cheap.
3:35 "My iPhone here" The fact that you don't unironically run a keitai as your daily driver has shattered my perception of who I thought you were.
Isn't this the lady that illegally played portal?
No, this was the lady that accused canon of copying some japanese arcade game
It's the lady that LEGALLY "pirated" portal
No this was the lady who interviewed the homebrew channel composer
No, this is the lady that told you to buy a ps3
This is the lady that legally played portal :D
The Gameboy Camera webcam you made is feeling sad right about now
i wanted to compare it with this one but my super famicom is out of order right now, need to replace caps qwq
this girl is having too much fun doing this kind of cool crap and I'm here for it
Hi! Zoom tech here. Since webcams are made for video conferencing the priority focus is lowest bandwidth. Apple and other laptop manufacturers try to focus on things like dynamic range rather than resolution since the software they use will reduce the quality to a max of 1080p. Even when bandwidth isn’t a concern the client system needs to encode than decode the streams in real time. The hardware can be easily overwhelmed trying to decode a couple 4K streams in real time let alone 20+.
Interesting! But wouldn't it possible/better for at least mid to high level webcams to give the user the chance to use their sensor to their full potential for specific usecases like streaming or recording video locally? Giving them choice, basically
Then why are selfie cameras on phones great?
A camera is a camera, and people use them for more than Zoom.
@@MentalEdge because it's there mainly to take pictures and mobile phone SoCs have highly efficient video processing circuitry that's just not present on x86 devices. Your PC has to either process video with no acceleration on the CPU or send it to the GPU and rely on the accelerator there. So a phone just streams data over CSI straight to the relevant pins on the SoC, while a PC - if you were to use a high quality camera - would have to receive a massive stream over.. something?, put that into RAM, send it to an accelerator over PCIe or completely saturate a few cores to process it on the CPU and _then_ it could save it. Hence why people using DSLRs for a webcam use them with a capture card.
This webcam project works because the Pi Zero is doing the video processing directly on the Broadcom silicon there. For webcams to have high quality output they would basically need a more expensive chip integrated into them and people buying webcams just wanna connect to a video call so the market is probably risky and companies may be unwilling to try it
@@oiytd5wugho None of that makes the "problem" of non-sucky PC video input insurmountable.
@@MentalEdge yes, nothing is insurmountable. Sorry for elaborating?
I just want to say, you are an excellent storyteller. You took what could have been a 2 minute quick and easy video, and instead crafted a wonderfully entertaining and informative presentation on such a wide variety of topics. Hats off!
not the privacy cover, now the CIA can see my NES flashcarts
Don't worry, the CIA is too busy destabilizing Central and South American governments to care about you. Now the NSA, on the other hand...
:P
I can't believe f4mi has decided she is going to exclusively make Linux terminal content going forward. Wishing you all the best with this change in direction!
Silly, webcams arent supposed to suck. Thats what vaccums are for. And my healthcare premiums.
skill issue
She's denying her weapon it's purpose
Your channel is easily the one I enjoyed the most in 2024, and I'm glad you're out here getting big boi sponsorships and continuing to do the weirdest shit possible with them. May your channel continue to grow like crazy as more people discover your batshit antics in 2025 🎉
This is my favorite youtube channel right now, so blessed clicking on it and seeing a new video by chance lol
Something i like a lot about f4mi videos is their constantly changing hair style and color.
Which one is the real one? Which ones are the clones?
Guess we'll never know.
Biblically-accurate blue f4mi.
The others are just gacha skins.
her*
@@TH3mrBROWN it's a joke. About there being multiple f4mis and we will never know which is the real and which are the clones.
had a psychic urge to search for your channel just now, so glad it’s cos you uploaded and not the FBI agent in my skull
i like the censoring of Tommy Talerico’s name in the subtitles. i bet his mom is so proud of him
6:12 very good call on using the pictures from Steve Jobs playing with the beta Photo Booth
i was hoping for justin kuritzkes personally
Most people who hate video quality webcams just connect a professional camera up a computer and use software to use it as a webcam.
true, but that is both insanely expensive and a huge commitment to set up, while this is like 50 bucks and literally plug and play once built
@@f4micom you mean 50$ hardware and 400$ 3d printer and knowledge to make 3d models
@@pixelsalad you can use cardboard and hot glue and it will work the same. You don't need 3d printer.
@@f4micom you will also have professional camera at the end of the day to use if you go with that route
@@pixelsalad Or free sponsored 3d printer and free 3d models.
Or $400 3d printer and MILLIONS of free 3d models. Anybody buying a printer to print a single object would be the most humongous idiot on the planet.
I was super interested in how one might make a webcam from scratch but you just bought a raspberry pi module and followed a setup tutorial. congrats on technically doing the thing by your definition but I feel insanely clickbaited
Exactly, not even the software was made from scratch.
The 2000s merch you use never gets old, it's so good
One thing I've wondered for a while now, is why are webcams STILL using such tiny sensors and no proper mechanical zoom/focus functions, when you can easily make a webcam with a much larger sensor because you AREN'T restricted by space like phone cameras. Also, why are they STILL doing ANY of the processing? Even your version STILL has to do the encoding on a separate system using a totally different OS which adds unnecessary lag to the signal. It's literally connected to a whole ass much bigger and more powerful computer that have dedicated video encoders in the CPU and even the GPU, which are sat there doing bugger-all for most of the CPU/GPU life - just send the sensor signal to the COMPUTER ITS PLUGGED IN TO!
USB bandwidth is the issue
It's honestly crazy to me no company has simply released a webcam that uses one of the amazing camera sensors that smartphones have now. We have phones that can shoot HDR, 240FPS, 4K, and yet webcams are still stuck struggling to do SDR 1080p 60fps in a decently lit room.
Or hell, put a DLSR sensor in a shell with a focusing lens.
Every few years I check to see if a company has come out with a decent webcam and and disappointed to see it hasn't happened, or if it has, it's basically the cost of an actual smartphone.
Most people really do not need to buy a webcam.
Camo allows pretty much any smartphone to become a webcam. With my phone I can go 4k60 if I really want to and specify which lens to use.
Most webcams are a waste of money.
They're out there, just intended for industry use. Doesn't prohibit one from snatching such a camera from ebay though! Recently got a 2K one with 10bit stream and 110FPS. Basically a plug and play DSLR in a small package.
The problem is the data rate for high resolution high quality video is pretty high. The sensor itself is rather cheap, but the electronics needed to interface them aren't. (A smartphone SoC costs a bit of money!) And I guess there isn't big enough of a market to justify designing a custom USB interface & signal processing chip for this purpose
15:24 if bamboo lab's slicer supports it, you should switch from rectalinear to organic supports. Organic supports use significantly less filament making them faster, cost effective, and easier to remove than the alternative.
you are like a ghost in my youtube, idk you name, idk a lot about you, but you're always on my youtube and i always recognize you by your video style, and your videos are always new to me and related to my tastes, it's like magic
f4mi typing commands into a linux terminal for 5 minutes straight? aight, that's a new patreon subscriber
the last seconds of the video just reminded me how I used my old phone as a webcam for a while and then as a cctv cam. I bought a dedicated Webcam and it was basically the same quality, just a wider lens, which didn't really come as handy as I thought it would.
edit: I also just noticed in my notifications that f4mi liked my other comment which I removed when I finished watching the video because I thought it was dumb.
It said that you can use cheaper SBCs as long as they have CSI and maybe a video encoder, but I wasn't sure if they were available in raspberry micro format, as I didn't forsee how this weird project gonna end up in something that actually looks like a webcam.
You know what's even more of a racket? Handheld digital microscopes, especially those for medical use (eg for skin doctors). Can easily go to four or five figures, and it's just a cheap webcam with some lenses and some old software incompatible with anything else.
If anyone has a reasonable solution I will be in debt with you.
Industrial camera with macro extenders and long CS mount lens. Shouldn't go above 300 bucks if you search well enough 😊 I'd say the lens will be the biggest expense, the cams itself are pretty affordable if you don't need high FPS, resolution or darkness performance. Some brands to look for: PTGray, IDS, Basler, The Imaging Source
can't wait for the conclusion: CPUs SUCK, so i built my own
A new viewer here and your video made it to my frontpage, didnt study for my computer security exam but enjoyed all 19 minutes of this. new subscriber gained (love the half life refs)
1:40 "They have something way more powerful... Ingenuity."
This line goes hard 🔥
Instructions unclear, my Raspberry PI is a self-conscious person
many such cases
Hey F4mi! I’ve been following you for a long time, and your channel is exactly the vibe I love. Every time you put out a video that seems random compared to the last, I like your channel more and more.
Does anyone remember when both webcam manufactures and Google both accidentally made everyone's cameras public? Early cameras had no security, as "Who's got a computer to access it?" anyhow? But also, "Who's gonna know where the buttons, are, so we should broadcast it on the internet for those who need to remote into it..." Well, you get lots of pseudo random or plain default web pages for every single camera. Guess which decade this was? Yes, the first decade Google started crawling the web. So it was soon found, that Google had a list of thousands or more cameras, all publicly broadcasting.
Yeah I remember being able to type "in index of" and it would pop oprandom cameras sometimes
Mate they still do, i did something like that and accidentally found live footage of some kindergarten classroom
It isn't Google's fault for not people not putting a password on a publically facing camera feed
Well... it was the early days and no one thinks of security... and on some level they still don't. Many nanny cams and home security cams have the essentially same security of the shitty WEP security of the Wi-Fi standard (anyone that's smart will not use that these days... WPA2 or even WPA 3 *IS MUCH, MUCH* better these days) plus the factory standard security password equivalence of _Password123_
I remember when Anker's Eufy did the same thing in 2022, so basically people didn't learn jack.
I might just have bought the only iSight in my country with the intent of going through the same journey. Wish me luck!
5:15 The printer singing immediately reminded me of the Floppotron, except that this piece of tech is probably meant to be able to produce those sounds.
The quality of these videos is getting dangerously high and i'm totally in for it. An intresting topic with an engaging storytelling in the big '25? That's not very usual. Keep it up F4mi 👊
From now on we should call webcams coffeecams...
From coffee to a fully functioning homemade webcam, this channel is something special....
Congrats on the bambulabs sponsorship, you've get sucked into the 3D printing rabbit hole! one of us! one of us!
wait, you're the guy who helped with shank mods handheld virtual boy
@@mikuoctoling good catch! Shank just released a banger of a video, I've been bugging him with CRT questions.
04:08 what a transition, for a moment i thought it was the same audio
the weirdest part about the iSight is that it's not actually using the DV standard. you would think it would just be a DV camera but no.
also it's funny how long the iSight held up like they're still good in terms of webcams despite being so old.
"Why did i do all this then ? BECAUSE I WANTED TO"
This might be one of two big coffee makers in computer history, during the IBM-Microsoft work on OS/2 Microsoft employees working at IBMs Boca offices put a coffee-machine in their offices and put a box labeled "Microsoft confidential atop it" so IBM security people couldn't look at it.
This is brilliant and what makes it so enjoyable is to see your genuine enthusiasm for the subject.
Just came to say you’re making some fire content. You’re on a roll. Banger after banger!
I was litteraly looking for a webcam and couldn't find one that suit me for a reasonable price, I might just do that !
Putting Neighbours From Hell music in the background is a typical F4mi move.
The fact that someone still remembers that game warms my heart a little bit.
11:08 His mother is very proud
was just about to make that joke
bringing back the old tech is somthing very nostalgic❤ ..and the best part you bring it in FULLHD .
This takes "when in doubt, make your own" to the next level
Just one question that remains - WHERE CAN I GET A HOMEBREW-CHANNEL HAT?
LMAO, like 2 days ago I decided to look up what the first webcam is, as a preamble to looking up when USB Video was introduced
And right away I knew you were gonna talk about the Trojan Room Coffee Pot, speaking of. Perhaps we'll have wcoffee someday, X window system won't be here forever
EDIT- As for the video itself, chef's kiss honestly. All it needed to be and a little extra
Happy new year!
Greetings from Germany!
The A1 is a damn game changer, its so good. I click a button on my phone and it just MAKES THAT THING. It levels itself and compensates for its own vibration and stuff, its so cool!
This is so cool!! My dad’s been complaining about the quality of his monitor’s ancient webcam and really disliked the idea of setting up the mount for Continuity Camera every time when I showed him how to do it. When I looked into getting him one, anything with half-decent quality was going for over $150 CAD! I have an old iSight in a drawer so this might be the perfect gift idea, thanks 😊
Finally someone created a good webcam.
This video is so fun! Love the engineering and so nice to see the it working so nicely! Also congrats on the bambu sponsor - you are now officially part of 3d printer youtube :)
This channel has it all.
I just bought 3 iSight Cameras in ebay due to this video. Not sure how I have never seen this channel before. I would watch for the spicy commentary alone.
she bambu on my labs til i A1
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i just checked a few hrs earlier if you uploaded a new video, didnt think youd end up uploading the same day
happy new year
happy new year
NO, HAPPY OLD YEARS!!!
the references to breaking bad, top gear, the simpsons and half are brilliant and make me spit out ma new coffee
sponsorblock did you dirty on this one labelling so much as filler.
yeah its users can be annoying sometimes marking what is not filler as filler, if you want you can help out by marking again correctly/downvoting what is not accurate but all of that is outside of my control and yeah i don't think that is filler in the first place, if they only wanted a dry video tutorial about "making a pi based webcam" this is not it, as i clearly stated in the video too
Where did you get the hats? I really want the SQL Server one 😅
Peter Knetter get on this RIGHT NOW! 6:14
He would build a Webcam out of cardboard.... and GLUE!
Pretty cool webcam that's a hybrid of an iSight, you're seriously one of the most special channels on RUclips I've ever found since the beginning. The way you edit videos is exactly how I imagine and overexaggerate things in my head. You also talking about Renderware makes me happy
For anyone that wants to do this for real world use just get a capture card and a nice camera with HDMI out. It isn't as fun as this project but it is much better quality wise. If you are going to be like "wahhh I need it to connect to the internet" you can figure something out with OBS
You can also get an industrial usb camera and not have to deal with the bulk size of a DSLR and external power requirements.
@rafall1118 if you are going that route you can use a lot of action cams as a webcam via USB c
Well, except that this whole project costs less than a single capture card, let alone a "nice camera"
This is both high quality _and_ budget friendly.
@@Blutzen If budget is an issue use your phone. Droid cam OBS works great and you can also very likely use recent android phones as a USB C webcam with very little setup
Again this video is about having fun, not budget reasons or otherwise and that is okay
this woman has the ability to do absolutely the simplest thing while talking like she is making an insane never before project
"i built my own" by buying all the hardware that someone else built, printing a model that someone else built, and sticking one into the other, with multiple step-by-step guides that someone else wrote
i said built, not designed, and the entire thing is running using open source software so software wise you can tweak it however you want, so where is the problem here? not saying this to be confrontational or anything, i just think the title is pretty much explaining exactly what i did lol
Do you nitpick everyone who says they built their own PC when they choose their desired components? Nothing here is misleading 🤣
@@f4micom thank you so much for replying to this message, I know it can be incredibly challenging to interact with criticism on this platform, and I applaud you for doing so in such a calm and constructive manner.
I do understand the sentiment of OP though. I really like build videos, and they usually cover some novel problem with a novel solution, and the storytelling of overcoming the challenges, expected or otherwise, and that's what I'm after.
Your video was greatly produced and shot, it was funny and entertaining, and you did a great job with this upload, but I found it to be of a different genre than the one I expected clicking on the thumbnail. So I'm definitely putting it in the "not for me" basket, but that's just a personal preference, and I think that's what op also tried saying
Yeah, f4mi has a point. If you look up the definition for the words "built" and "designed", you would see that these are two different words with two different meanings.
Building something is to simply put some components together.
Designing involves putting in thought on both the look and the function of a product. There's planning in design, while building is simply the act of constructing.
So, I hate to say this, but your disappointment is entirely due to your own expectation and bias. She did not mislead you with the title. It's both grammatically correct and accurately describes what she had done and shown to you.
I love everything about this, especially the Regular Car Review-esque edits! Soooo good
f4mi, start a webcam business now, I'll buy 2 webcams. also f4mi eilish?
Nice Tommy reference! His mother would be proud
Is this the same person that worked hand-in-hand with Mr Miyamoto on Metroid Prime?
WDYM MADE YOUR OWN???
Now you can host a server on your webcam. Very nice build!
6:35 - that music brings back memories, thank you
I've had the parts to do the original HQ pi webcam for like... 2 years? And just never got around to it. Great video
yooo what are you doing here
I live here wdym
@@EposVoxhonorary EU citizen lel
I guess this video proves that I'm not against watching ads as long as they're entertaining
banger video, the iSight casing makes it soo much better
Wow, your 'e-Jay' shirt brings back memeories. 😊
My phone has a built-in usb webcam mode. Plug it in to any PC or mac and choose either front or back camera. The quality is basically unmatched by anything. And it's free.
wow what phone?
This should be an Android 14 feature, so most likely any new phone @@CrashFan03
Careful that your BambuLab doesn't make you Spaghetti Bolognese if you are printing from the toilet. As a printshop a toilet is fraught with errors.
That was a fun video!! ^^ Happy New Year!!
wait, 0:44 is this the history of how the webcame came about? to watch a pot of coffee so people didn't have to get up to get one, only to find an empty pot?
Aye~~ good stuff, excellent video
There is no way each time you upload a new video you surpass any expectation I could have had until then. Cheers from the Aliexp pirate brigade.
😂 15:39 excellent editing there! I did not expect this second movement in rondo alla turca
Nobody has picked up on this iconic Top Gear reference at 7:07 and I love it
10:55
the irony of using the petscop font while making a joke about grave robbing is not lost on me
Another cool thing about PETG is its optical clarity. With some tuning, you can make some very clear prints
I loved your remote control video!
You can make the most mundane things really interesting 😄
3D printing while pooping is the scifi future I dreamed of as a kid
4:59 ah yes, the good ol' "just in a container"
You are something truly special. New fan here!
I just found my new favorite youtube channel)