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Permalink Reply by Genesis Factor on July 28, 2008 at 7:09pm

There is. Sighh, i just don't want to make this into a buying and selling deal. I am always willing to help out and swap gear or whatever.

Most cheap lcds for cars and stuff on ebay or in stores have a transmissive display. The best displays are transflective displays. However, those are usually found on Pocket PCs and you would require a CF FlyGrabber just to view it ($100-- and i have one, love it).

I have these 2.5" LCDs. that i know work in the day time. they also have RCA out and RCA in. They are actually halves of an imaging system that i used for my FPV, and other projects. We also used them as computer monitors as they are near VGA quality and do great text.

another thing you can look into, if you want near eye, and don't mind greyscale, is hacking the wild planet spy car's head set. I bought two of them while they were still for sale direct from wild planet and regret not buying more. I would buy one for your kid or something and take out the headset.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Brian on July 28, 2008 at 9:34pm

I've thought about using a small color handheld TV. You can pick them up for less than $70 and have RCA in, battery operated and you can even watch Oprah!

OR NOT!

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Permalink Reply by Genesis Factor on July 29, 2008 at 5:43am

No, they are things that i have quite a few of just sitting around. I'll take a picture.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Brian on July 29, 2008 at 10:36pm

How well do the "toy" head sets work on the spy car? Use your 2.4 camera/trans and recieve w/head set? You say "hack", what's that all about? Ready to push the buy button on one or two and want to make sure they are worth it...

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Permalink Reply by Genesis Factor on July 30, 2008 at 10:31am

they are black and white, just remember that. They take any RCA based video source.

http://jakeofalltrades.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/25-head-mounted-dis...

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Brian on October 25, 2008 at 10:34am

Genesis Factor,
I picked up two of the cars w/shipping for less than $60. I plan to use a small project box w/battery clips (free as a sample from , a $1.50 3.5mm 3 conductor stereo headphone jack, $1 rca jack and 12v single cell bat (all availabe @ Radioshack) and put together a nice little power source for the headset w/jacks to plug the headset and rca video source, wired or wireless.

Thanks for the great tip on the spygear. The Jakeofalltrades link has been bookmarked and is a good read.

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Permalink Reply by dincer hepguler on October 26, 2008 at 3:03am

i already picked one and hacked it as a fpv headset, but donot expect too much from this gadget, the image is not so good... however regarding the small price you must not expect too much... :)

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Brian on October 26, 2008 at 8:57am

My intent for the use of this is less than typical fpv. I would/will be using it only for perspective to match the onboard recorder. It may be even be worn by the spotter and not pilot. So detailed images are not really expected. How did you convert the plug from headphone jack to ?

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Permalink Reply by dincer hepguler on October 27, 2008 at 5:33am

i used a female phone plug and made a hybrid y cable for power and video, by the use of some heat-shrink tubing the whole thing is not messy. i used a salvaged 6v rechargeable pack from a phone which was not big and suitable for attaching somewhere near the headset. i can put some closeup pics of the system if you want...

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Permalink Reply by Genesis Factor on October 29, 2008 at 6:10pm

Yeah, the image is NOT going to be as clear as your CCD would make it. I think we speced it out to a 160x96 or a 300x something. It uses a Kopin display, so one day, i'm hoping there will be a hack for a better display to swap. it was an odd number. Anyways, its between a $25-$60 piece of headgear and something from emagin that goes for 200 and up!

One thing you should be aware of, is that Woot offers the MyVu personal editions every once in a while. DO NOT GET THE IPOD VERSION. GET THE UNIVERSAL VERSION.

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Permalink Reply by Julian on October 26, 2008 at 9:16am

Could somebody put up a link to where to actually buy the replacement headsets, because the ones on the jackofalltrades websites aren't workin out for me, thanks

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Brian on October 26, 2008 at 10:33am

It's a long read, but it's pretty clear that they are no longer selling just the headsets. You need to buy the car to get the headset.

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