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Here is a little tid bit I learned that I hope might help alot of you guys. There is a web cam on the new EEE PCs that measures 60mm by 8mm. It has a 5 pin usb connector and I believe would be a perfect fit for the Sony TR. I did the mesurements and from what I can tell you won’t even have to cut any plastic out like the other mod on this forum. you might have to change the usb connector though.

I haven’t tested this yet but I have done alot of research on this webcam problem in the TR series. The EEE 701 has a 0.3mp camera and the 900 has a 1.3mp camera. they are exactly the same size. It might be worth it to find some broken EEE PCs.

Here is a picture of the internals of an EEE PC. Notice the webcam at the top center.

Hi,
Thanks for the info. Would you mind resizing the pic some?

Hi,

My tr3a webcam is also died (white screen), while i did not serve more than 4 hours in 3 years!

I recovered last week a webcam from an acer 3100 aspire laptop (produce of bison or logitech, I don’t know actually). It seems possible to put in in the tr3 cam box :  it’s an unique board which dimensions are smaller, there are:
1) a flip flop switch to reverse the cam,
2)a miniusb 5 pins connectors
3)fix focus lens
4)a green led on the right of the lens.

(surprisingly the usb connector on the board cam has 5 pins and the usb cable has only 4 pins)

Apparently, just have to recover the focusable lens on the vaio, move the green led to the left, cut some plastic and fix all with some glue.

I didn’t have the time yet to search the driver to try this webcam, if it works I probably put it in the TR cam box.  I think that the resolution is 1280 x 800 pixels (data found on ebay), thus better than TR. I will tell you all probably next month.

I think that the ideal is to find a laptop cam part who has a flip flop switch, which is not the case of the EEE pc.

Any news on this issue or alternative cameras to install in a PCG-TRM1P ?
That would solve a long standing problem.
Can anyone recommend a camera that works?
Thanks

I’m also anxious to try replacing the motion eye with an alternative cam. Does anyone have info on the current best available webcam to use?