[Loch-Ruadh] Arrived on site
Sluggy!
sluggy9912 at swbell.net
Fri Mar 9 16:54:21 PST 2007
--- Adam Harrison <concrete_donkey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah that was me collaborating with Sluggy. I taped
> a disposable still camera to one of my arms several
> Gulf Wars ago. (That worked!)
It was Gulf Wars IX, the one where we were very
enthusiastic, having been denied the opportunity the
year before... :)
Anyway, some of those shots are now famous....
http://generich.com/elfsea/page43d.htm
> Then the summer after that Sluggy and I got the idea
> of mounting a tiny video camera to a helmet and
> having it transmit to a recorder on the side of the
> field. We got the camera/transmitter rigged and
> working, but never got the receiver to work right in
> the field. Then again, we only tried it once.
I still have all the bits. They are just as reliable
as ever.
> So, instead of having 1. A camera in a housing wired
> to 2. A transmitter wired to 3. A battery pack:
> transmitting to 4. A Receiver mounted to 5. A VCR
> mounted to 6. A Battery or car, all we have is one
> single compact unit. Much simpler.
>
> That's what 6 years of technological improvements
> makes, eh?
Less Murphy, less Murphy's Law!
Sluggy!
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