Adding camera to iPad
Can I add a camera to the original iPad to do facetime and use iMoive etc?
(please)
(please)
iMac G5 iMac -intel, macbook, iphone, many older macs that I have rescued :0, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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As far as I am aware there are no webcams that can be attached to the first iPad.
someone should be able to create an app for that.
The problem may not be the software - it may be the hardware.
I don't think that you'd need just an app, existing webcams may not be compatible.
I can add external cameras to my facetime on my mac, apple did sell an external ichat camera for a while
Apples and Oranges, Stan. ipad has a different operating system and different hardware architecture.
Nothing like that as of yet - if ever.
I mean you could, but you might end up a) destroying your iPad and b) voiding your warranty. 🙂
I mean you could, but you might end up a) destroying your iPad and b) voiding your warranty. 🙂
Is there indeed no solution existing resp. in planning for the ipad ( i mean ipad1)? im also not interesting to destroi my ipad(1) or to jailbreak it.
Finding a webcam should not be the problem: of course you to select one without driver-software, a so called uvc-webcam with usb. Usb to create on ipad is no problem -you use a so called ipad-connecting-kit ( ~30€).
Now we need an app (faceTime!). I hope finding it in app-store of apple and that faceTime is not a native app of ipad2 only! My recherche acc. webcam ( ~ 20€ and more) and connecting kit with above mentioned features were succesful in the web shopping AMAZON.de.
May be, I get a chance at all after 11/03/2011 ( date for publishing ios4.3 in Europe). I hope than upgrading the io4.2 of my ipad(1), perhaps apple created the faceTime-app as the native one within ios4.3.
Reason for all that inelegant method abbove: i dont want to loose 600€ or little less after buying the ipad ( 4 mothes ago).
What does the forum or better the experts still more better apple about all that????
Finding a webcam should not be the problem: of course you to select one without driver-software, a so called uvc-webcam with usb. Usb to create on ipad is no problem -you use a so called ipad-connecting-kit ( ~30€).
Now we need an app (faceTime!). I hope finding it in app-store of apple and that faceTime is not a native app of ipad2 only! My recherche acc. webcam ( ~ 20€ and more) and connecting kit with above mentioned features were succesful in the web shopping AMAZON.de.
May be, I get a chance at all after 11/03/2011 ( date for publishing ios4.3 in Europe). I hope than upgrading the io4.2 of my ipad(1), perhaps apple created the faceTime-app as the native one within ios4.3.
Reason for all that inelegant method abbove: i dont want to loose 600€ or little less after buying the ipad ( 4 mothes ago).
What does the forum or better the experts still more better apple about all that????
hello, why not, if you take a so called uvc-webcam?
when not apple, than other enterprises. recherche in the net for usb uvc-webcams. in case of uvc you dont need software fot the webcam ( no driver!)
If they signal can be sent out vi vga or hdmi, it should be able to bring back a signal via that.
haven't you not USB2.0 alt your mac?
and: if you look in amazon.de and googling their for uvc webcams,, you get infos to more than one webcam! of course in german, so you be so kind translating it.
do you think, uvc webcams with usb2.0 for mac osx published aren't usefull?
Adding camera to iPad