Certainly possible with good waterproofing, but-
Even just walking around upright our eyes are bouncing up & down but we don't usually notice it. Ever played DOOM? They replicate the up-down motion on the screen. My eyes see movement but my inner ear doesn't feel it. They ask for a tie breaker vote from my stumoch who gets all confused, & we all know what happens when stumochs get confused :(. After about 15 minutes of play I have to either quit or throwup -
You're going to be in the position of a camera showing movement that doesn't gibe with what your inner ear says. NASA does this sort of thing in induce astronauts to throw up during training,, no real reason for it other than the humour aspect & something to bet on for the office pool :)
O.K. motion sickness aside, the picture is gonna be jumping all over the place as your head moves which means you'll cave to break concentration on maintianing your stroke as your mind tries to interpret the display to pull out the info you want, i.e. Wheres the &^$%(# Buoy?
Additionally, you'll need to source a supplier for teensie-tiny windshield wipers.
Probably a few other things to consider like drag & sore necks from swinging the extra mass back & forth
Not saying this is a bad idea or that it can't be done but I think you'll need some developement & a lot of practice with it before its going to be of benefit to you.
H.
Gurus,
>
>I need your help...
>
>I am an amateur triathlete and I'm getting ready for the start of the
>triathlon season and I had this problem last year that I'm trying to
>solve.
>
>The problem is that during an open-water triathlon swim I need to skip
>a stroke every so often to lift my head out of the water and site the
>next turn buoy. I usually find myself off course by a few yards and
>need to make corrections. This costs me time from being off course
>and from skipping a stroke. So, I had this idea to take apart an old
>digital camera or picture phone and mount the camera part to the back
>of my head and attach the LCD part in front of my goggles.
>
>Sound crazy? I did a Google search and found that someone has
>patented the same idea...
>
>formatting link
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>The thing is, as far as I can tell it's never been built, and I need
>your help to build it.
>
>I took apart a digital camera and was able to power it up and get an
>image on the LCD, but the LCD is connected to the camera by what looks
>like a proprietary 24 wire ribbon cable and connector that I would
>need to build an extension to. Any ideas if that is possible? It
>would need to be about 15"-20" long to go from the back of my head to
>the front of my goggles. The ribbon is about 1" now. Do you think
>the picture quality would get much worse at 15"?
>
>Another issue is that the camera has a lot of extra stuff on it that I
>don't need. Do you think there is a way to trim it down to just the
>ccd, lcd, a battery and a switch? Do you think a phone would be a
>better starting point? I took apart a broken camera phone and I was
>able to separate the pieces - but it has the same issue - a very thin
>proprietary ribbon cable.
>
>Any other ideas? Am I crazy?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks!
>
>jerry
>
>p.s. please respond to my e-mail and the group.