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

By: Ant

Ant — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:02:00 +0000

GLaDOS? The AI from Flight of the Navigator movie?

Steve Taylor — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:27:00 +0000

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

digi_owl — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:15:00 +0000

Jason Spears — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:40:00 +0000

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

msbpodcast — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:07:00 +0000

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.

benher — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:41:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one here who thought “dildo.”

EH — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:38:00 +0000

$2 at your local St. Vincent’s.

LeSinge — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:24:00 +0000

What if you left the lamp/bulb but mounted the camera above the bulb? Ring flash?

snordalisk — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:16:00 +0000

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

Eark_the_Bunny — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:08:00 +0000

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.

Blinde Schildpad — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:03:00 +0000

[insert hilarious 'mounting other things' joke]

Brian Easton — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:03:00 +0000

I think that instead of bonding the webcam directly to the armature I would have used something closer to a standard camera mount.

Maximillian — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:52:00 +0000

I use mine for a microphone at my desk. (I purchased 3 for this type of hack a few months ago)