{"id":7468,"date":"2005-07-12T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/isight-car-mount\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:22","slug":"isight-car-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/isight-car-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"iSight Car Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to <lj user=c0nsumer> and <lj user=macosx>&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/isightcarmount\/DSCN1321.sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/albums\/isightcarmount\/DSCN1321.sized.jpg\" border=0><\/a><br \/>Click for more&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>While at work yesterday I decided that I&#8217;d build a mount for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/isight\">Apple iSight<\/a> for my car. This way I could transmit photos of wherever I&#8217;m currently at, do stop motion video of driving, and all sorts of other things which the especially nifty iSight allows one to do.<\/p>\n<p>So, as you can see in the picture above, I&#8217;ve got a mount built. This is more of my design test \/ proof of concept mount. I may build another that has a more polished look to it, as well. Probably some matte black paint, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted three videos which are the result of testing of the mount. There are two full motion tests which I took last night, and one stop motion<sup>\u2020<\/sup> of my drive to work. The mount seems to hold the camera very stable, and the full motion videos almost have a video game feeling to them. Perhaps this weekend I&#8217;ll do a stop motion driving around highways somewhere Downtown Detroit, in and out of parking garages, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it seems to work as desired. Enjoy the videos. They are encoded with QT7 in 512kbps H.264, so you&#8217;ll need QT7 or some other compatable player to view them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/files\/videos\/isight_carmount_test1.mp4\">Car Mount Test 1<\/a> &#8211; At night, on M-59 crossing old Van Dyke, entering the sunken concrete cavern highway area.<br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/files\/videos\/isight_carmount_test2.mp4\">Car Mount Test 2<\/a> &#8211; Driving through the parking lot on the southwest corner of Hall Rd. and Schoenherr, ending up on Schoenherr heading north.<br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/files\/videos\/isight_carmount_stopmotiontest1.mp4\">Stop Motion Test 1<\/a> &#8211; My favorite vid. One of the routes I take to work, start to finish. Each frame taken two seconds apart, played back at 15 frames per second.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><sup>\u2020<\/sup> Stop motion footage created by:<br \/>\n1) Use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evological.com\/evocam.html\">EvoCam<\/a> to capture a video with no compression, best quality, and best bit depth at .5 frames per second which makes for two seconds between frames.<br \/>\n2) Open resulting .MOV in QuickTime Pro.<br \/>\n3) Export .MOV to image sequence.<br \/>\n4) Open image sequence with QuickTime Pro set to the desired frame rate. In this case I found that 15fps looked best. 30fps was just too quick.<\/p>\n<p>It may be possible to simply change the frame rate at which the QuickTime file is presented, but I was having difficulty figuring out how, so I did it this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to and &#8230;] Click for more&#8230; While at work yesterday I decided that I&#8217;d build a mount for my Apple iSight for my car. This way I could transmit photos of wherever I&#8217;m currently at, do stop motion video of driving, and all sorts of other things which the especially nifty iSight allows\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}