![]() His students have used NASA space probes and regularly participate in piloting new materials for NASA. In 2006 he was selected at the California Computer Using Educator's teacher of the year. He was using digital sensors on Apple II computers in the 1980's and has networked computers in his classroom since before the internet existed. Join us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Google+, or subscribe to our RSS news feed The QuickCam Orbit is so new that Logitech hasn't yet You pay a littleįor the gimmick, and I wish I had more control over it in a greater There are lessĮxpensive FireWire webcams (the iBot comes to mind). Overall, at the price I paid (retail is US$129.95) I'm getting more ![]() I haven't been able to reproduce the problem, so I'm not exactly sure The camera software couldn't find the camera, so I had to reinstall it. Restart, which seems a bit rare these days on OS X. Installation was simple and quick, although it did require a I wish I could embed the video output and controllers in a HyperCard Open house, which is where we intend to use it. We set ours on top of a Lego™ model of a Mars rover and We bought the camera to serve as part of a display on the Mars The thing is obviously capable of smooth panning, because it does so Would have to go deeper into the control system and talk to the USB ![]() To control it, which is a real shame for budding robot designers. There are no keyboard equivalents, so you couldn't program a joystick You hold the mouse button down, the pan takes a single step and stops. There is aĤ-way mouse-clickable arrow interface to activate the pan and tilt. The main problem I have with the camera is the interface. Maximizing in the direction you were going. If you drag the slider over the edge of theĬontroller window, it jumps back to where it started instead of The frame rate is probably better with theĬurrent generation of Macs equipped with USB 2.0. Perhaps I've been spoiled by the faster response time I see with DVĬameras over FireWire. The thing is a webcam, and it performs like one. The refresh rate on a 1 GHz TiBook didn't Out at 640 x 480 in video (1280 x 960 larger in still images). The video quality isĪbout the same as it was when the first color QuickCam came out, maxing Props for that.Įlectronically the QuickCam is essentially a Pro 4000 with a pan and tilt head. Tends to swing in some random direction and start zooming in and out But if you lean over suddenly, the camera If you don't move too fast and keep your face towards theĬamera, it works all right. I found the face tracking worked about as well as voice commands on Your head movements during video conferencing. ItĪlso sports a "face tracking" feature that is supposed to keep track of The gimmick for this particular camera is that you can remotelyĭirect the camera to pan left and right as well as tilt up and down. You can use to raise the ball closer to eye level. Once you manage to extract it, you find aīall on the base, another ball containing the camera, and a stem them The QuickCam Orbit comes in a box, encased in a plastic shell Unfortunately theĬamera is not compatible with iChat AV, because Apple only supports Not MSN messenger or Windows Messenger (natch). We can still use it,īut we don't get to do all the stuff a PC user does.įor example, for videoconferencing: We could use Yahoo messenger but ![]() This is what has happened with the QuickCam. Interfaces? For the most part, that has happened, but in some cases the Previously denied us because Apple adopted both FireWire and USB Remember when we thought that we would get a slew of peripherals Logitech now makes the QuickCam, and they continue to support the Managed to survive my various computer transitions and now reside in my I still have pictures taken through this camera that have Mac back when it attached via serial ports and worked in black and I was one of the early adopters of the Connectix QuickCam for the ![]()
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