Recycle your Disposable Digital Camera

Posted Jun 25, 2006 at 11:42PM EST by QJ Staff

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Here at QJ we believe that every disposable tech gadget is the perfect candidate for recycling. Today we've set our sights on this Ten Dollar Digital Camera by the good people at Elephant Staircase. All you need are those disposable digital cameras you can get at RitzCamera, CVS or Walgreens. A little ingenuity and you'll make non-disposable digital cameras out of these cameras on the cheap.

You'll be needing a camera, Palm 3 cradle, USB cable (with one normal end), soldering iron/electrical tape and Windows PC with USB ports.

Camera 001 Camera 002 Camera 003

First thing you would have to do is to strip the Palm cradle by removing all the screws until you get to the cable with the connector. Then cut the button circuit off, leaving only the black wires attached to the main board, followed by the big thick gray wire about an inch from the board. Cut one end of the USB connector that doesn't connect to the computer. Now all you have to do is wire up all the connections. You can either strip all the wires and solder them to the board or simply use the colored wires already to the board and tape them using electrical tape.

Palm circuit->USB
Hole E1->Ground (Black)
Hole E2->Data - (White)
Hole E3->Data + (Green)
Hole E5->+5V (Red)

Final step would be to install the software along with the driver. When you're prompted to "specify location of driver" point it to the location "libusb.inf" Repeat this procedure for each driver dialogue that pops up. Rebooting shouldn't be necessary.

Now you have the ability to take more than 25, 90 even up to a mythical 200 pictures on it. Here are some sample pictures for you. So get snapping!

Sample 001 Sample 002 Sample 003
Sample 004 Sample 005

Download: [Single-Use Camera Reader for Windows]

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