Swapped my phone camera for a Game Boy SP camera module and it's actually useful

I used to rely on my phone for hidden cam setups in my apartment, but the battery died too fast and it was obvious. Last week I repurposed an old Game Boy SP camera module with a tiny power bank and it runs for 12 hours straight. Anyone tried using old game console cameras for surveillance work?

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kai_webb915d agoTop Commenter

Nice, I rigged a PSP camera with a motion sensor and it works great.

reese_hayes715d ago

Wait, you actually got the motion trigger working with that old PSP camera? I'm honestly kind of blown away because I tried something similar a while back with a different setup and I could never get the timing right. The latency on those old Sony modules is pretty rough from what I remember, so the fact that you got it to register motion without lag is wild. Maybe it's just me being too picky, but I gave up after a week of tinkering. How did you manage to sync the sensor with the camera's shutter? Did you have to solder something custom or did you find a breakout board that actually works?

daniel_gonzalez5d ago

Yeah but how's the resolution on that PSP camera compared to the Game Boy one? I've been looking at old Sony stuff but the specs are always fuzzy.