Cheap Ikea anglepoise knock-off is a good articulated arm for webcams

Ikea makes a super-cheap, $9 articulated anglepoise knock-off lamp. The articulated arm is a useful for anything lightweight that needs to have an adjustable X- and Y-axis. Instructables user Brianandrewparker shows how to use a blob of Sugru to mount a webcam to the lamp-base and give yourself a nice, adjustable camera. He notes that this would be useful for mounting other things, too.

Tertial Webcam (via Lifehacker)

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I use mine for a microphone at my desk. (I purchased 3 for this type of hack a few months ago)
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[insert hilarious 'mounting other things' joke]
- benher
  
  I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one here who thought “dildo.”
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I think that instead of bonding the webcam directly to the armature I would have used something closer to a standard camera mount.
Eark_the_Bunny

I used to have one of those but it kept jumping up and down on every letter “I” it could find. In the end it got quite messy.
snordalisk

Technically this is a knockoff of a Luxo lamp, not an Anglepoise.
LeSinge

What if you left the lamp/bulb but mounted the camera above the bulb? Ring flash?
- digi_owl
  
  this came to mind: http://www.tested.com/news/mit-turns-a-desk-lamp-into-a-computer-interface-video/417/
EH

$2 at your local St. Vincent’s.
msbpodcast

I have one on my desk right now holding a Samson C01U mike held in a wire cage, purchased back when I was recording my podcasts.

Now I use it for recording high-quality audio for my video conferencing.

Its actually quite usable.
Jason Spears

And we named him Wheatley. He’s not bright, but isn’t he ADORABLE?
Steve Taylor

I use mine as a desk lamp. It’s pretty good for a cheapie.
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