00:00:12be showing you how to make a
00:00:14night-vision spy scope for this project
00:00:16you’ll need a digital camera I find the
00:00:20best one is sanyo V PC 5 1 2 8 5 and the
00:00:25reason is because it uses regular
00:00:28batteries that you can change whenever
00:00:29and it has a decent zoom also 2.7 inch
00:00:35large LCD screen so it’s perfect for the
00:00:40second part of the camera which is the
00:00:453-inch LCD viewfinder which has a two
00:00:50point eight inch screen and what you do
00:00:55is I used some crazy glue just to
00:00:58connect that on originally it came with
00:01:00an adhesive and with a metal piece that
00:01:04a ring that one around your screen and
00:01:06then there were magnets inside of here
00:01:08but I found that since I was going to be
00:01:10keeping this way that I just brushed it
00:01:13on with this crazy glue and you really
00:01:15want to use the the crazy glue with a
00:01:19brush because it allows you to be more
00:01:23accurate and if you use too much it
00:01:26reacts with the plastic and gets all
00:01:28messy so try and find at least a brush
00:01:31kind doesn’t have to be this brand next
00:01:36on the list is your 9-volt battery your
00:01:42double-a battery clip which you can find
00:01:46at RadioShack or online you can get like
00:01:50a million more RadioShack has everything
00:01:52over priced this I just salvaged from
00:01:55some somewhere just a switch and you
00:02:03have the wire which connects to your 8
00:02:08LEDs which are wired in parallel you’ll
00:02:11have 4
00:02:13and for and these two will be connected
00:02:17to will be able to be positive ends and
00:02:19these two will both be negative ends and
00:02:22you connect them to a Y go Y shape and
00:02:25then the end of your Y is connected to
00:02:29your battery pack and on the other side
00:02:32the positive is connected to your 10 ohm
00:02:35resistor which is then connected to the
00:02:41rest of your circuit your batteries
00:02:45these specs on these LEDs they are 200
00:02:50milliwatts triple infrared LEDs buy them
00:02:54on ebay because if you don’t they’ll
00:02:57probably be about a buck apiece at
00:02:58RadioShack so some things you can get
00:03:01away with a RadioShack other things
00:03:04better have a big wallet what else this
00:03:10right here is a spool that I took from a
00:03:13cheap measuring tape measuring tape just
00:03:18now you can use that or Pichet the spool
00:03:22inside fit has this which is perfect for
00:03:29fitting over your camera if you modify
00:03:32it using a dremel or you can just sit
00:03:35there I use scissors actually because I
00:03:37didn’t have a large enough drill bit to
00:03:39make these holes
00:03:40I took my soldering iron poke a little
00:03:43hole waited that for the plastic to dry
00:03:47and then I just took my scissors and
00:03:49twisted them until you know I had decent
00:03:52sized hole and it fits perfectly so
00:04:00there’s no contact with the actual
00:04:03camera itself and then when you turn on
00:04:06the LEDs with the battery in
00:04:16sorry an idiot it’s pretty bright and
00:04:22the camera that I’m recording with
00:04:25actually isn’t infrared there’s a filter
00:04:28in it but this is so bright that not all
00:04:32of the infrared light is being blocked
00:04:34so if this was infrared this whole
00:04:38screen would be just white from all the
00:04:40light it’s just it’s really ridiculously
00:04:43bright these 200 milliwatts LEDs are
00:04:46really really good
00:04:48so what haven’t I explained umm the
00:04:57spool originally didn’t have holes so
00:04:59what I did is I took a needle heated the
00:05:02needle up with a lighter and used some
00:05:04pliers to just pop two holes just all
00:05:08around here and I think it turned out
00:05:11pretty good this spool was also just
00:05:17crazy glued down less is more with this
00:05:21stuff you don’t want to dunk help the
00:05:24moving camera inside so if you need to
00:05:28go back and you know enforce it wait
00:05:32till it’s on there and then you can go
00:05:33all the way around the edge if you want
00:05:35but I would say less is more because you
00:05:39really don’t want to mess up that little
00:05:41retracting thing you want to move nice
00:05:43and fluid like that so I’ll be showing
00:05:52you guys the ranges I’d say it’s an
00:05:55Atlas 50 feet and the good thing about
00:06:00this viewfinder is if you focus the
00:06:07camera so if you turn on these LEDs
00:06:10they’re so bright that you can actually
00:06:12see them on the screen but if you focus
00:06:15it just right you won’t see the LEDs and
00:06:21also if you notice when you take any
00:06:25time you take a picture with a low
00:06:26quality camera the image is always
00:06:29smaller than what your actual eye would
00:06:31see so by zooming in you can find the
00:06:34perfect combination that is equal with
00:06:42what your actual eyes seen and what the
00:06:44camera seeing on your left or right eye
00:06:47whatever you decide to put this on and
00:06:50this plastic rubber allows you to hold
00:06:54it close to your eye and it allows you
00:06:58to be more stealthy if you’re spying on
00:07:00someone or you might use this for
00:07:02hunting I’m just going to explain a
00:07:05little more how this circuit works for
00:07:08your LEDs you have your positive
00:07:10positive goes down to your Y and your
00:07:13LEDs by Y I mean the two positive ends
00:07:16of your LEDs should be connected to your
00:07:18tenant resistor then those go up to your
00:07:21negative your negative comes up and then
00:07:24you see there’s a wire here and there’s
00:07:25also a wire right here that wire goes up
00:07:28to your switch comes back down and this
00:07:31is your negative so it goes from here
00:07:35back down around and to your other side
00:07:40your positive so like I said these are
00:07:43in parallel hopefully you guys know what
00:07:46that is if not look it up and if you
00:07:49have any questions like I said message
00:07:51me Thanks
00:07:54here’s a quick demonstration of how the
00:07:57night-vision scope would work right now
00:07:59I have the lights on the light on the
00:08:02infrared light is not lit yet so turn
00:08:04that on and there you can already see
00:08:07the kind of purple light coming off of
00:08:09the infrared lights so I’m going to turn
00:08:13off the lights now can’t see anything
00:08:16it’s pitch-black in here and there it is
00:08:20focused on the screen I was in a little
00:08:24bit there’s the end of my closet right
00:08:27now I’m about 25 feet from the end of
00:08:30the closet and you can clearly see
00:08:33everything to the back of the closet and
00:08:35it’s even bright you can see at the very
00:08:38back of the closet there’s a little
00:08:39circle of light so
00:08:42I think that tells me that this can even
00:08:45go further than my closet but this is
00:08:48the darkest hallway I have my house
00:08:50though thanks for watching hopefully you
00:08:54guys will take the time to actually
00:08:56build this let me know what you think
00:08:59and if you have any questions leave me a
00:09:02message thanks
00:09:10you
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