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Laptop webcam to usb

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Hi

 

I have an old ACER Tm 7514WSMi laptop. its broken, so I took its internal webcam from it. Iv heard that most of laptop webcams are usb wabcams.

 

So from my webcam comes 5 wires. red, blue, orange, and green and yellow twisted together.

 

Inside usbcabe are only four wires, white, green, black and red.

 

So how could I connect those wires from webcam to usbcable.

 

My webcam detects when I have turned it around, pointing away from laptop unlike most of webcams.

My webcam has a swich insede, which detects when its turned. so I guess that one of wires is for it. I cant trace which one of wires goes to that swich.

 

so hos should I connect this to usb cable. Which color goes to which?

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    Hi,

     

    first there is very limited risk to damage ubs circuits as there are protected from overcurrent. So you I toke the risk eventually got it wrong (I notice in my device manager in that case that other usb items got disconnected...)

     

    I managed to wire a wecam that I got from an old Toshiba laptop satellite: there are 5 wires:

         - black AND red/brown go the black of USB (my guess is that black is 0 and that red/brown is the ground used for electrostatic isolation of the laptop)

         - 2 twisted cable are data wires: blue goes to wthite and green goes to green

         - last is white and is the +5V, it goes to the red of the USB.

     

    I hope it helps

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    Hi,

     

    first there is very limited risk to damage ubs circuits as there are protected from overcurrent. So you I toke the risk eventually got it wrong (I notice in my device manager in that case that other usb items got disconnected...)

     

    I managed to wire a wecam that I got from an old Toshiba laptop satellite: there are 5 wires:

         - black AND red/brown go the black of USB (my guess is that black is 0 and that red/brown is the ground used for electrostatic isolation of the laptop)

         - 2 twisted cable are data wires: blue goes to wthite and green goes to green

         - last is white and is the +5V, it goes to the red of the USB.

     

    I hope it helps

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