Official policy: I no longer do Hangouts with people who don't have cams.
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When in doubt, duct tape.Mar 7, 2013
+Lionel Lauer, oh, that's reassuring: lsusb doesn't know about either of them, and neither does the Linux kernel, though probably it picks them up from their interface class.
It's a "Logitech HD Webcam C615", at £50 roughly ten times the price of my cheap one :) It's not clear to me from the pictures on Amazon and elsewhere how the heck you attack it to anything. Does it grip, or do you screw it in to... something, or what? 'cos my current webcam's terrorist-profile six-o'clock-shadow-even-in-the-morning side-shot is somewhat less than satisfactory.Mar 7, 2013
+Nick Alcock It has a jointed, weighted stand that can be shaped to grip or just sit on pretty much anything. It's a very clever bit of design.Mar 7, 2013
+Nick Alcock print your own clip/stand.Mar 7, 2013- Print? Oh, you mean with a 3D printer? I didn't think the plastic used for that was really tough enough... (also, 3D printers cost a lot more than that camera would. I don't have one, being really really really not a hardware person.)Mar 7, 2013
- Custom brackets like that are really a 3D printer's forte.
I have the opposite problem, I have more webcams than I need. The last few monitors I've bought have one built-in, which I didn't even realize until I tried using the built-in USB hub. No speakers, though, which I thought a little odd.Mar 8, 2013
