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Help whith hacking an old toshiba laptop to make an usb camera

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i had an old toshiba laptop that i scraped of some parts (lcd,hdd,wifi module,and the camera) and i want to make this camera a usb one but i saw some videos and the colorcoding on mine is litle confusing its 3 black cables and one red and one brown. I hope the phots will help if not this is what it's writen on it (d173-0L0335)  (001-4622L-A01) (cnf6122_a1)  need help imageimageimage

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    It is already most likely a USB camera so nothing to make. Just connect to a USB connector. You should be easily able to figure out the 5V and 0V supply rails (just use a multimeter set to ohms and probe between the wire and points on the board that you suspect to be supply or 0V (check IC data sheets if you need to). The other two wires going to the same area of the board will be the data pair, just try them in any order. If it doesn't work, swap them. I don't know what the fifth one is, but you can possibly ignore it for now, see how far you get.