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So the webcam idea worked, but all of the photos pretty much sucked. >95% of them were completely blurry…

I think about 50 people recognized that I was a LEGO minifig, and about 150 thought I was a wheel of cheese. :)
I really think I could do a much better job next time by making the foam discs a little more round. I had envisioned a glossy and perfect lego head and wound up with something that looked more like a sarcastic-lumpy-wheel of cheese or a smirking-drunk-yellow marshmallow.
LEGO Head

Perhaps next year I’ll put in an old point-and-shoot digital camera with a remote trigger and have a usb cable running down to my pack that’ll read off the card.
One thing that would have been nice is some kind of heads-up-display inside the helmet. Just a simple backlit LCD would have been perfect. It would display the timer length remaining until the next snapshot, and some other arbitrary piece of random crap just ’cause it’d be cool.
A shutter trigger button on the side of the headpiece would be pretty useful as well.

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