[CharlesInCharge]

I need a cheap rear parking hack!
Supposedly you can connect this universal cable to your Android operating system cell phone and instantly get video... a $30 used cell phone and $10 webcam can do wonders... plus the cell phone can double as the cars music system.
http://stech2.firstpost.com/tech2images/640x359/proportional/jpeg/gallery/2012/jun/otg_cable_271738106968.jpg
http://www.infinitegra.co.jp/solution/AndroidApp1-1.jpg

Even two cameras!
http://www.infinitegra.co.jp/solution/AndroidApp1-3.png
Infinitegra, Inc. | Android App "USB Camera" (http://www.infinitegra.co.jp/en/solution/AndroidApp1.htm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_etT5CFq0s

It should be noted that USB cables should not go longer then 10 feet because they lose power... perhaps USB amplifiers fix this.

Edit - how to make your own converter cable.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-USB-OTG-host-cable-The-easy-way/

[Manic!]

Or our could just buy this: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Wireless-Car-Rear-View-System-Backup-CCD-Camera-Night-Vision-7-TFT-LCD-Monitor-/261701742107?hash=item3ceea3ae1b:g:

[4444]

or just learn to drive / concentrate on the road. we survived without back up cameras for 100 years, we don't need them now

disclaimer: i had a rear view camera from the factory in my last car, was nice and all for really tight parallel parking, but for any kind of reversing, you should be looking back / around regardless

[CharlesInCharge]

No ones forcing you to adapt to new technologies old man.

How about side video cameras instead of mirrors for blind spots!
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/vw006-660x440.jpg

Or our could just buy this: Wireless Car Rear View System Backup CCD Camera Night Vision+ 7" TFT LCD Monitor (http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Wireless-Car-Rear-View-System-Backup-CCD-Camera-Night-Vision-7-TFT-LCD-Monitor-/261701742107?hash=item3ceea3ae1b:g:)Watch that be over $120 after taxes, import and delivery fees.

[4444]

No ones forcing you to adapt to new technologies old man.

How about side video cameras instead of mirrors for blind spots!
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/vw006-660x440.jpg

Watch that be over $120 after taxes, import and delivery fees.

cameras aren't new technology, they are just cheap enough that they can be economically put in cars.

if you're a half decent driver, you will have no use in cameras in and around your car. rental cars, yes, you don't know their size so have less confidence in tighter spots, your car, no, not necessary.

[4444]

Watch that be over $120 after taxes, import and delivery fees.

location: Mississauga canada

[CharlesInCharge]

....

if you're a half decent driver, you will have no use in cameras in and around your car. rental cars, yes, you don't know their size so have less confidence in tighter spots, your car, no, not necessary.
Location: not vancouver

I park a mini van in tight downtown alley spots... regardless... how cool is it to see whats behind you for so cheap... $30 Android, $5 webcam, $5 cable hack.

[4444]

Location: not vancouver

I park a mini van in tight downtown alley spots... regardless... how cool is it to see whats behind you for so cheap... $30 Android, $5 webcam, $5 cable hack.

import = $0. missassauga - vancouver = free shipping.

can't recall what taxes you'll pay, but max. exposure at $88 is $100 post tax.

tell me how i'm wrong and that this is somehow a false flag or whatever you call it. please, i'm waiting, like all other times

[CharlesInCharge]

Show me where youve ever been right? Please Im waiting...

Using a smart phone or tablet as a parking backup monitor, has way more capabilities then a remote controlled, stand alone LCD monitor costing atleast $100 as a package.

For instance... does the monitor let you record road footage as a cell phone could???
How about play music videos or movies?
Can it Fm transmit to the cars radio?
Can it call 911 in case of an emergency?
Can it browse the net?
Does it have built in GPS?
Take a photo?
Take an audio note?
Order pizza?
I can go on...

[StylinRed]

back up cams are really convenient, especially if you don't have visibility from your rear windshield, far better than just using your side mirrors

[v_tec]

Charles, I have a cheaper solution for you: Infinity (http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/pml/zip/5233126480.html)

http://images.craigslist.org/00u0u_55yvMH8FGp9_600x450.jpg

[4444]

Show me where youve ever been right? Please Im waiting...


the burden of proof is on you, cracker.

[CharlesInCharge]

You make claims and expect me to repost your troll posts? no thanks... trolll lol lol lololol lol.
@v_tec
Time is money, I would lose money trying to get around with a bike.
But you can always add a rear view camera to one.
http://cdn.blessthisstuff.com/imagens/stuff/owl-360-bicycle-rear-view-camera.jpg

[yray]

anything thats a removable + lcd screen = broken windows in dtwn.

[CharlesInCharge]

Yea, gotta be creative in how and where you mount the camera... of course leaving the monitor\phone out would be stupid.
Looks like the minimum Android O/S needs to be version 3-4 and higher

And only some webcams are compatible... it needs USB UVC capabilities... and even then its best to google successful makes before purchasing.

Some compatible webcams
Linux UVC driver & tools (http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/)
http://camerafi.com/supported-android-devices/

New webcams on sale
http://www.ncix.com/category/webcams-4d-1021.htm


Other programs
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vaultmicro.camerafi&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidperception.dashcam

App from original post I believe
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.serenegiant.usbwebcamera

[meme405]

or just learn to drive / concentrate on the road. we survived without back up cameras for 100 years, we don't need them now

Honestly are you just shitting on this to shit on CiC?

Tons of people are adding backup cams to their cars, it's a really awesome convenience feature. No it's not necessary but it does make things easier, especially since a lot of newer cars have gotten pretty bad in terms of rear visibility.

[mos_skeeto]

One really good thing about backup cameras is the ability to see kids that are shorter than my trunk which I may not be able to see with my mirrors or looking back.

[Manic!]

Show me where youve ever been right? Please Im waiting...

Using a smart phone or tablet as a parking backup monitor, has way more capabilities then a remote controlled, stand alone LCD monitor costing atleast $100 as a package.

For instance... does the monitor let you record road footage as a cell phone could???
How about play music videos or movies?
Can it Fm transmit to the cars radio?
Can it call 911 in case of an emergency?
Can it browse the net?
Does it have built in GPS?
Take a photo?
Take an audio note?
Order pizza?
I can go on...

You said you wanted a backup camera that's all. Your idea is stupid. I would tell you why but I do not feel like helping you out.

[GLOW]

for what you're trying to do and the price, i think manic's ebay camera might do the trick.

[Xu.Vi]

Lol, aren't you afraid that the RCMP/VPD could hack into your system?

[ae101]

seriously u telling use to get the times but isnt going to shell out extra dough for something decent

seriously dont be a cheapskate & shell out for a real back up camera, dont grab a stupid cheap cell phone & web camera

back up cameras are convient, its not something that u really need but its convinent

[Anjew]

having a backup camera is so much better than just using mirrors. the fact that i can back up until i'm about an inch from the obstacle behind me is so much better than NOT having one.

i want one of these mirrors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxHAj79kh8

[AzNightmare]

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/rage/fuck-that-bitch-troll-rage-smiley-emoticon.png
Don't need the unnecessary electronics and additional weight, because RACE CAR.

:troll:

[4444]

Honestly are you just shitting on this to shit on CiC?

.

pretty much

my personal feelings to them is that, if a car comes with it from factory, fine, but adding it seems a bit excessive unless you genuinely have a vehicle with terrible blind spots (the kids point is very well taken, but most cars should be fine for that)

[CharlesInCharge]

seriously u telling use to get the times but isnt going to shell out extra dough for something decent

seriously dont be a cheapskate & shell out for a real back up camera, dont grab a stupid cheap cell phone & web camera

back up cameras are convient, its not something that u really need but its convinentAfter watching the video... I just cloned "Nissan's" great ZioAmerican copyright technology. I would just need to manually flip a smart phone over a rear view mirror and have two wide angle webcams at the rear tips of my roof to achieve the same results.


:offtopic:Lol, aren't you afraid that the RCMP/VPD could hack into your system?I recently semi joined the rat race like the rest of youz by getting a job at a super market.... but just before I had to be in the right poverty scale to get an appointment with a lawyer regarding Charter Rights of sexism and public humiliation for an arbitrary pull over. I meet with free Bono lawyers early next week and want to see for myself the facade of the Canadian, champions of human right and freedoms, when the judge throws out my case since being pulled over for "not matching the description of the registered driver".
Further discussion of the matter will not be entertained as there's a whole thread on it. :)

[GLOW]

After watching the video... I just cloned "Nissan's" great ZioAmerican copyright technology.


you sold out to become the zioamerican that you for so long fought against for a piece of zioamerican technology...i'm disappointed man...

you should have bought the ebay camera and supported the communist chinese economy instead

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0a3fg-fUWdw/T3On8vGgmVI/AAAAAAAAA4A/PJg-1gRMH5Y/s1600/bunk-the-wire.gif

[CharlesInCharge]

I was planning to get a Nexus 7 tablet for its used $80 cost, size and compatibility but then I may as well use my Asus EEE mini laptop which costs about the same, bought second.

The downside is that it would have to be on standby and wont come on as instantly... but the up side is that being its a laptop, I can install software like WebCamXP and work motion detection alerts and many other features then a phone or tablet.

I even have a tv tuner for it as is shown here in this nexus7 video to hook up old RCA composite cameras... Now I can use my old home night vision camera or the other sturdy RCA camera I have that could be installed externally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-gLrqUHATQ

P.S. If you guys remember my little home made BBQ, I would like to seal it with a nice stainless steel brushed finish microwave case and be able to run it inside my car while I exhaust the smoke out through the sunroof.
This way I can drive 2 minutes into a downtown parking lot, cook some good lamb bbq kebabs over coal while at the same time monitoring the outside with camera's... then I'd dive home to some delicious food which would cost the average rat racer 3-5 times more in price.


1

GMO's and neurotoxins are among the worst that I help supply the Canadian populace to eat and develop tumors and diseases like Michael J Fox's.
But!, looking at my measly paycheck, the amount of taxes that Ive contributed to this war machine is many folds less then you in our life time!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f04385f9d3a83b469e9d1c9cd245f05/tumblr_n5zf3bjpjx1qjm38ho1_500.gif

[4444]

GMO's and neurotoxins are among the worst that I help supply the Canadian populace to eat and develop tumors and diseases like Michael J Fox's.
But!, looking at my measly paycheck, the amount of taxes that Ive contributed to this war machine is many folds less then you in our life time!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f04385f9d3a83b469e9d1c9cd245f05/tumblr_n5zf3bjpjx1qjm38ho1_500.gif

fuck you. you don't deserve to live in canadian society with the shit you say.

Parkinson's is a serious disease that ruins and then ends lives, let alone your comment on cancer.

[CharlesInCharge]

Its uneducated people like you that feed the system willingly without doing any kind of critical thinking as to the worthless cattle you really are.
I bet youre so ignorant that you'd feed your mother and future children this crap and still think nothing of it.

[parm104]

Its uneducated people like you that feed the system willingly without doing any kind of critical thinking as to the worthless cattle you really are.
I bet youre so ignorant that you'd feed your mother and future children this crap and still think nothing of it.

1) Where did you get your education from?

2) Do you buy your tinfoil in bulk from Costco or do you go out in your minivan and resupply weekly?

[Gucci Mane]

using a web cam as a backup camera? lol. that'll work all of once. soon as water hits it or moisture gets inside, GG.

just go to canadian tire and buy one of the kits they sell for fucks sake.

[4444]

Its uneducated people like you that feed the system willingly without doing any kind of critical thinking as to the worthless cattle you really are.
I bet youre so ignorant that you'd feed your mother and future children this crap and still think nothing of it.

Sad, ur so sad. I'm more educated than probably anyone u know.

Loser

[CharlesInCharge]

Sad, ur so sad. I'm more educated than probably anyone u know.

LoserHow about.... I start a series called the 4444 meme's.
https://i.imgflip.com/ug1xz.jpg

@Pidish
Eliminating condensation.... these are things to consider if youre going to mount it outside .... specially making sure its secure from theft by putting it in some kind of metal pipe and bolting it to the frame.

For now Im going to hook my webcam to a suction cup inside the rear windshield... and unhook it when parked at shady places. I could also glue it to a Velcro strip and hang it off the ceiling.


So I bought a high cpu, cracked screen cell phone for $30 and $40 for a used compatible webcam. $70 total.
You have to really do your research on the parts and if you need to update the phones software.
Ask me any technical questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJaHtWWFmuQ

[GLOW]

but for $19 more you could have bought the one made by our communist brothers and have it all wireless!

[Mr.C]

Cracked screen? That is one ghetto-ass setup, geez.

[SoNaRWaVe]

ghetto-ass setup is right up cic's alley. look at all his great inventions and ideas.