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I tried to pick up a webcam last week... nothing anywhere.
I wanted to buy a new webcam; basically because I'm finding half my life is spent using one. Ran into the problems mentioned in the article, and put a Logitech camera onto pre-order. Cancelled that order last night though: possible to use an android phone as a webcam that's most likely better quality than the current generator of USB webcam. I chose this app [1], others are available. [1] https://play.google.com/stor…
How do you use the IP webcam address in programs like teams, zoom, skype? I resorted to buying a magewell hdmi-2-usb converter. Better quality, I can focus and zoom from further away (no huge nose) and depending on your gear you have automatic background blurring (aperture+sensor size) http://www.magewell.com/products/usb-capture-hdmi-gen-2
You can download an "NDI" apk for your cell phone since the manufacturer removed the app from the play store, to provide the ability for an android phone to serve as a network display interface (of course it's your risk to download APKs from a random site)
> You can get an external webcam—although top models are sold out across the web. ( Logitech says it’s increasing production and distribution to meet the new demand.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/living-the-coronavirus-work-fro...
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You can make your own yeast: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking...
You can do this and wait for days and pray you have not created some nasty poisonous culture. Or you can use human gut microbes to generate instant safe yeast.
I bought an Elgato CamLink instead... hooked it up to a DSLR I already owned, and it makes for a stunningly crisp and clear, high quality, webcam. Of course, using a 42.4 Megapixel sensor and a Carl Zeiss Sonnar lens it would. https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k Turns a HDMI input into a USB web cam.
With my old battery, the sessions were... short. So I managed to snatch a Brio last week, and I'm much more satisfied.
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You can make your own yeast: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking...
Yeah, I know. But it doesn’t seem worth it to buy a kg of flour just to make yeast for a single recipe ;)
Yeast. I haven’t needed yeast in years, recently I found a recipe with yeast I wanted to try and found out that, at least where I am in Germany, yeast is sold out. I heard about the webcam thing from my boss, he asked me if he gave me a webcam years ago when I started remote working. He did, but it was in the attic and I had to go looking for it ;)
We had the same yeast problem and finally solved it by trying our local bakery, which happily sold yeast to us. Obvious in hindsight...