Shishi Odoshi

This was my entry for the first Blender-PT competition, with the theme "Loop" animation, the idea was to make a small but loop capable animation, my entry is based on the japanese Shishi Odoshi. Rendered with BI (Blender Internal) and fluids simulation for water splash animation.
 

 

 Check it on youtube

Using old iSight camera via USB

This is small note regarding the usage of the iSight camera as a regular web camera, which can be used on any computer with linux/ubuntu.

The camera has a small USB lookalike plug, which I removed, and replaced by a regular USB male plug. The cables followed the standard USB coloring scheme, which helped a lot find D+ and D- (check electrodroid app > USB pinout), GND and VCC where quite obvious.

After that I installed the packages on ubuntu to support the iSight:
sudo apt-get install isight-firmware-tools

To run the re-configure (if the binary blob path path is set incorrectly):
sudo dpkg-reconfigure isight-firmware-tools

After connecting the camera, typed:
dmesg | tail -10
[...] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[...] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=8501
[...] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[...] usb 2-2: Product: Built-in iSight
[...] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Micron
[...] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[...] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Built-in iSight (05ac:8501)
[...] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
[...] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[...] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

Installed cheese and voilà, it works :)