Ok to keep a photo-log of naked webcams on the wiki?

[Sci]

By that I mean webcams without their housings on. Scandalous I know!

I'm sure I can't be the only one who's had trouble finding out the more
esoteric details about webcams, like the shape and size of the PCBs
inside, the positioning of lens assembly fixing screws relative to the
imaging sensor.. at least not without buying and finding out yourself
(potentially wasteful and costly).

It doesn't relate to the space per-se, but unless there's a general
purpose maker/hacker wiki out there (is there?), putting it on our own
seems the best place.

I'm just thinking, take a photo of the outside and inside of the webcam
when you come to tinkering with one and throw it up on the wiki as a
general resource. Maybe add rough board dimensions, lens type/postion,
CCD size (also damn hard to find out. Never mentioned in adverts or
reviews), those lens fixing screws and so on..

Thinking a simple table with the vital statistics would do for keeping
it tidy. And with browser plugins those tables can be sorted to
highlight webcams with the physical characteristics you're after.

~ Sci

[Mark Steward]

Sounds fun. I'd suggest sticking it in a Project:Webcam_teardowns/Specific_model or something like that.

Maybe we could even have a Teardown: namespace?

Mark

[Sci]

So "Teardown:Webcams/Trust_380_Spacecam"?

And the namespace would keep a listing. Not a listing with details
though. You'd still have to hunt through all entries to find something
with the spec you were after.
What about a template? Is there anything in the wiki that could pick
data from a standard template and format it into an at-a-glance index on
the Teardown:Webcams page?