#808 camera

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hat cam with keychain camera 808 #16

My lens B for the 808 keychain camera #16 arrived. I think it is better as a hat-cam than lens D. Lens B:

Lens D:

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808 camera #6 time script

My solution to taking videos of my flying was to velcro a keychain camera to a cap. As it turned out, there's quite a community with these [808 cameras](http://www.chucklohr.com/808/index.shtml). Unfortunately, I have a #6. It is a pretty bad one with high dropped frame rate and produces fake HD AVI files that is upscaled from native 480p video. What is worse is that it seems to have the issue where the lipo protection circuit is stuck in a state that can only by fixed by reconnecting the battery. I suspect that it also fixes itself if you wait long enough, because it was broken 18 months ago and it worked briefly before going back into the locked up state again this week. Anyways, before it broke again, I was happy that it's working I started to work on a dos script to set the correct time. Maybe it is useful to someone. Change i:/ to whatever drive it appears to be when you connect your 808 camera, save it into a .bat file and run it when you are charged and ready to disconnect. For other versions of the camera, it probably needs some modifications. Some require time.txt instead of tag.txt, and others require seconds or completely different format. edit: The old script inserts an extra CRLF at the end of the file, which makes the camera unhappy. This new version should work

SET yyyy=%date:~10,4% SET mm=%date:~4,2% SET dd=%date:~7,2% echo [date] > i:\tag.txt echo %yyyy%/%mm%/%dd% >> i:\tag.txt <nul set /p ".=%time:~0,5%" >> i:\tag.txt