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Night Vision Spy Scope (Camera & Camcorder)


hey it’s Greek Educare root today I’ll
be showing you how to make a
night-vision spy scope for this project
you’ll need a digital camera I find the
best one is sanyo V PC 5 1 2 8 5 and the
reason is because it uses regular
batteries that you can change whenever
and it has a decent zoom also 2.7 inch
large LCD screen so it’s perfect for the
second part of the camera which is the
3-inch LCD viewfinder which has a two
point eight inch screen and what you do
is I used some crazy glue just to
connect that on originally it came with
an adhesive and with a metal piece that
a ring that one around your screen and
then there were magnets inside of here
but I found that since I was going to be
keeping this way that I just brushed it
on with this crazy glue and you really
want to use the the crazy glue with a
brush because it allows you to be more
accurate and if you use too much it
reacts with the plastic and gets all
messy so try and find at least a brush
kind doesn’t have to be this brand next
on the list is your 9-volt battery your
double-a battery clip which you can find
at RadioShack or online you can get like
a million more RadioShack has everything
over priced this I just salvaged from
some somewhere just a switch and you
have the wire which connects to your 8
LEDs which are wired in parallel you’ll
have 4
and for and these two will be connected
to will be able to be positive ends and
these two will both be negative ends and
you connect them to a Y go Y shape and
then the end of your Y is connected to
your battery pack and on the other side
the positive is connected to your 10 ohm
resistor which is then connected to the
rest of your circuit your batteries
these specs on these LEDs they are 200
milliwatts triple infrared LEDs buy them
on ebay because if you don’t they’ll
probably be about a buck apiece at
RadioShack so some things you can get
away with a RadioShack other things
better have a big wallet what else this
right here is a spool that I took from a
cheap measuring tape measuring tape just
now you can use that or Pichet the spool
inside fit has this which is perfect for
fitting over your camera if you modify
it using a dremel or you can just sit
there I use scissors actually because I
didn’t have a large enough drill bit to
make these holes
I took my soldering iron poke a little
hole waited that for the plastic to dry
and then I just took my scissors and
twisted them until you know I had decent
sized hole and it fits perfectly so
there’s no contact with the actual
camera itself and then when you turn on
the LEDs with the battery in
sorry an idiot it’s pretty bright and
the camera that I’m recording with
actually isn’t infrared there’s a filter
in it but this is so bright that not all
of the infrared light is being blocked
so if this was infrared this whole
screen would be just white from all the
light it’s just it’s really ridiculously
bright these 200 milliwatts LEDs are
really really good
so what haven’t I explained umm the
spool originally didn’t have holes so
what I did is I took a needle heated the
needle up with a lighter and used some
pliers to just pop two holes just all
around here and I think it turned out
pretty good this spool was also just
crazy glued down less is more with this
stuff you don’t want to dunk help the
moving camera inside so if you need to
go back and you know enforce it wait
till it’s on there and then you can go
all the way around the edge if you want
but I would say less is more because you
really don’t want to mess up that little
retracting thing you want to move nice
and fluid like that so I’ll be showing
you guys the ranges I’d say it’s an
Atlas 50 feet and the good thing about
this viewfinder is if you focus the
camera so if you turn on these LEDs
they’re so bright that you can actually
see them on the screen but if you focus
it just right you won’t see the LEDs and
also if you notice when you take any
time you take a picture with a low
quality camera the image is always
smaller than what your actual eye would
see so by zooming in you can find the
perfect combination that is equal with
what your actual eyes seen and what the
camera seeing on your left or right eye
whatever you decide to put this on and
this plastic rubber allows you to hold
it close to your eye and it allows you
to be more stealthy if you’re spying on
someone or you might use this for
hunting I’m just going to explain a
little more how this circuit works for
your LEDs you have your positive
positive goes down to your Y and your
LEDs by Y I mean the two positive ends
of your LEDs should be connected to your
tenant resistor then those go up to your
negative your negative comes up and then
you see there’s a wire here and there’s
also a wire right here that wire goes up
to your switch comes back down and this
is your negative so it goes from here
back down around and to your other side
your positive so like I said these are
in parallel hopefully you guys know what
that is if not look it up and if you
have any questions like I said message
me Thanks
here’s a quick demonstration of how the
night-vision scope would work right now
I have the lights on the light on the
infrared light is not lit yet so turn
that on and there you can already see
the kind of purple light coming off of
the infrared lights so I’m going to turn
off the lights now can’t see anything
it’s pitch-black in here and there it is
focused on the screen I was in a little
bit there’s the end of my closet right
now I’m about 25 feet from the end of
the closet and you can clearly see
everything to the back of the closet and
it’s even bright you can see at the very
back of the closet there’s a little
circle of light so
I think that tells me that this can even
go further than my closet but this is
the darkest hallway I have my house
though thanks for watching hopefully you
guys will take the time to actually
build this let me know what you think
and if you have any questions leave me a
message thanks
you
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