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I tried both macam.0.9.2.dmg (the current release), and the latest development build macam-cvs-build-.zip (several years old - not a good sign for the project's health), and while they could capture still images at VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels), there was no live video and when trying to record video the PS3 Eye made the macam app crash.

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So, driver time - this should work with the Macam PS3 Eye driver, although they do warn about high bandwidth needs.

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The serial number on the base is S/N 8X0066138, and says it is a SLEH-00201 manufactured by Namtai for Sony. Manufacturer: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.Īccording to these guys' detailed tear-down, that version string B4.04.27.1 matches this being a newer version with the OV538 USB chip (see photo above, unlike the older B3.04.06.1 with an OV534 chip).

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Video for the PS3 Eye does not work out of the box on Mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' 10.8, but the microphone does. There is company doing Windows PS3 Eye drivers, but as I don't have a Windows machine at home anymore I didn't explore this. This was a bit fiddly, so if you don't need this part a little force could just break these clips. The outer lens casing is retained via four clips - I removed it by bending one clip at a time and holding them open with small jewellers' screwdrivers as a wedge.

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I've not shown the front casing and how to remove the original twisting lens covering (quite a clever design - the lens itself has a twist action for a wide-angle and zoom setting). For a shorter height M12 board lens mount used, you may need a hacksaw to modify the case. Luckily this worked nicely with my existing 1.25' Astro Engineering AC378 nose-piece adapter, without having to cut away any of the PS3 Eye's casing. This made reattaching it a little harder, but shouldn't affect the stability. I just cut these off, so the mount is only held by the two screws.

Note that the PS3 mount has two small legs on opposite corners (with holes in the PCB to match), while the Xbox mount has two small legs on the non-screw sides. Mine turned out to have the lens glued into the holder, so I simply unscrewed the mount and replaced it with the lens holder from a spare Xbox Live Vision webcam instead. PS3 Eye Lens and mount with red glass IR filter at base I also knew from post like this that least two variants of the PS3 Eye camera's lens and IR filter, often with lots of glue making disassembly hard.įront of PS3 Eye PCB with lens mount removed, Thanks to other bloggers like this one, I knew there was a standard M12 board lens holder into which a ready made 1.25' nosepiece should screw in for use with a telescope. The left LED is red (active), the right blue (power). (under a protective shell held by three screws). The far left and right screws (removed) hold it in the caseįront of PS3 Eye PCB with lens mount attached.Īcross the top of there are four microphones The bottom row of three screws hold the microphone cover. The two pair of screws hold the lens mount. Don't remove the lens holder unless you need to (in case you get it dirty), and likewise there is no point removing the microphone cover (held by three screws).īack of PS3 Eye PCB. Now just two screws must be removed to free the board, the most left and most right. In the end I used a hacksaw to free this - and once reassembled covered the slot with insulating tape. I decided for telescope use to remove the heavy flat foot - but the screw holding this on didn't unscrew. Once the back of the case is removed, the base is easily freed by removing another pair of screws. PS3 Eye opened, showing easily broken catches (blue)Īnd one of the two difficult ones to open (yellow)

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This video from Peau Productions helped, but have a look at the full sized version of the images here to understand where the clips you are aiming for are.īack of PS3 Eye with screw covers removed.īack casing, highlighting three easy clips (blue),

The main rectangular part of the casing is held by three clips (marked) which are quite easy, but there ball part is held by a pair of strong clips (also marked). Then the hard part - using a flat screwdriver or two, pop the seam all the way round. First, there are four screws on the back hidden behind glued on covers, which must be removed. With 1.25' telescope nose piece, with threaded IR filterĪctual test images pending - I need a clear night without other commitments. PS3 Eye webcam with standard lens removed and replaced I was inspired to try out the PlayStation 3 Eye camera for astrophotogaphy after seeing this amazing Orion M42 nebula image taken using a PS3 webcam on a SkyWatcher 130P (an hours worth of 4s exposures and a lot of post processing). Here's another nice thread on using the PlayStation 3 Eye camera with a telescope. It's reported to use an OV7725 60fps 6um pixel VGA sensor and image processor from Omnivision.