Spent the evening working on the CVS camcorder. I originally wanted to solder in a usb connection inside the camera in order to make plugging it in as easy as plugging a normal camera in, but have not found the female end of a mini usb connection yet. So in the meantime I thought hacking up an old printer cable in order to get the connector which I heard had the right spacing for the pins. That didn't work so hot. After the elegant approach of hammer and flat-blade screwdriver I found myself with damaged pins and not enough patience to solder around them. (See the mangled blue piece in the picture) So instead I went ghetto-geek, which always seems to work well for me. A piece of cardboard, a razor blade to make grooves to keep the wires straight, and plenty of tape. With a steady hand, I was soon downloading the first videos off my new $24.99 video camera. I haven't tweaked the quality yet, so here are the 320x240 vids straight off the camera (xvid codec required): Video 1 - Video 2