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Finally hacked my CVS Camcorder

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Submitted by anewcomb on Tue, 2008-05-06 07:42.
I know this has been done ages ago, but I finally got around to hacking my CVS Camcorder. I bought one about a year ago and figured I could hack it and let the kids use (destroy) it if they wanted to. Then I ran into a stop since the original hack didn't work on the new firmware. So put it aside for a while. Well today I picked it back up and had it hacked in less than 30 minutes. You can find the instructions I used here ... http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=5209 Here is what it looks like. I used one end of a $1 (Dollar Store) USB extension cable to connect to the camera and I hot glued the other end to the top of the camera to keep the cord out of the way when not in use. And here is a test vid.
CVS Camcorder from thesourceshow on Vimeo.

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Submitted by penney (not verified) on Tue, 2009-04-14 15:40.
do you need to have the camcorder powered up to have its data downloaded? i was kayaking in the keys and dropped it in the water for 2 seconds and the thing shut down and won't restart. i had 18 minutes of video i don't want to lose. any way you could clue me on how to get the video? peace. penney
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Submitted by anewcomb on Wed, 2009-04-22 08:05.
Penny, I guess it all depends on what the problem actually is. I can connect my camcorder to USB without the batteries and it will use USB power to run the camcorder. So if the problem is just with the connections from the batteries to the rest of the unit you might be OK. However, the camcorder does need to be powered up to activate the firmware so that Ops can talk to it. My guess is that you have multiple shorts on the circuitry and you won't be able to access it. Aaron

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