[geeks] My hacked CVS video camera

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:21:57PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:48:43PM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
>> Cable built, used an old PalmIII->serial adapter I had for using my
>> Earthmate GPS on the PalmIII.  First few tries with it haven't given me
>> much yet, but if I slide the connector back and forth slowly, windows
>> will pop up the "You've got a new USB Device 'Saturn'" stuff, and the
>> camera shuts off.  The Ops program can't open the camera yet.
>
> That's just a loose connector.
>
> You need to download libusb (see www.mrbill.net/cvscam), and use its
> wizard to create an .inf file for the camera.  Then, point WIndows at
> that .inf file, then the libusb0.sys file. 
>
> After that, Ops will be able to open the camera.

Woo!

I was missing the part on creating the .inf file.

Need to make the connector fit better, got a hand cramp holding it in
just the right spot.  But it works!

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org