{"id":7561,"date":"2005-08-11T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/11\/isight-tripod-adapter-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:28","slug":"isight-tripod-adapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/11\/isight-tripod-adapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"iSight Tripod Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to <lj user=c0nsumer> and <lj user=macosx>&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been thinking of manufacturing about 40 of those iSight tripod adapters and selling them. I&#8217;m thinking of making them a bit shorter than the one I have (there&#8217;s a lot of air space in there) and painting them black or so.<\/p>\n<p>Price would be US$35 shipped within the US, slightly more to elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious, do you all think this is a good idea? And, would you be interested in buying one?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN1124-scaled.jpg\">Here<\/a> is a shot of the device itself, similar to what would be for sale. Except the ones I sell will likely be painted black.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m trying to get prices on Firewire cables, but I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;d end up with 15&#8242; cables, leaving about 14.5&#8242; hanging out of the adapter. The extra length is there so that it&#8217;s possible to have the iSight mounted on the tripod, and the computer a goodly ways away.<\/p>\n<p>So, interested? Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to and &#8230;] So I&#8217;ve been thinking of manufacturing about 40 of those iSight tripod adapters and selling them. I&#8217;m thinking of making them a bit shorter than the one I have (there&#8217;s a lot of air space in there) and painting them black or so. Price would be US$35 shipped within the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561","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=7561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}