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Laptop webcam to usb

Former Member

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?

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Could you post a (preferably high res) picture of the module (front and back)?

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Hi, Its been a while since I was here last time image.

     

    Ok. here are five pictures from my webcam. I had only my phone lg optimus 2x, so there are some issues with pictures. If you have any more guestions feel free to ask. Ill do my best to answer to you.

    On the other side of that is nothing, it has some sort of cover glued to it.

     

     

     

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    My servers HDD died, I had some picures there. I havent used that webcam for a long time, but Ill try to find the webcam and then post some pictures soon.

     

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  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Sorry for the very late response. The first thing you will want to do is finding the gnd wire. If you have a multimeter then you can most likely find it by checking which wire is connected (has zero resistance) to the metal rings around the screw holes.

     

    The next thing to find is the power (+5V) connection. I think that the ceramic capacitor (the large one) close to the  connector is probably some kind of filter. This means that is is connected to the ground and the power wires, since you already knew the ground you now also know the power connection. The only thing left are the data wires, if the connector is wired like most usb connectors are wired there will probably be 2 wires in between or to one side of the power and gnd wires. These will probably be the data+ and data-, the only easy way to check this is to simply connect them (and the 5V and gnd) and try it out, if it doesn't work just switch them around. (use am old computer just to be sure). The fifth wire is hopefully not connected (can you track the traces to find out if one of the wires isn't connected?)

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Hey Guys,

     

    Need your help!

    I have a Toshiba built in webcam that i took out of my broken laptop and i want to connect it to a usb wire.

    i saw the other reactions and i understand it but my camera wire has; 1 red, 1 orange and 3 black wires ...

    what must i do ?

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    I wish I remember what I did image

     

    Well you should identify

    1. You should find out + and - wires for power
    2. data wires

     

    If you have a multimeter, you should find if any wires ary connected. Its just measuring resistance (Ohm) My multimeter has also a feature for detecting if 2 wires are connected. AFAIK it send little currency to detect if it has a circuit -> you could fry your webcam if sending too much currency to wrong direction.

     

    Any if you have something like this http://www.amazon.com/Mastech-Single-Output-Power-Supply-HY3003D/dp/B004ISQ270/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_1_0

    You could try feeding it 5V and almost 0A, so it shouldnt frie webcam, and only when connection is correct, it will get power and you should see some Ampers used.

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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