Teardown & serial port on the Foscam C2
As my Foscam camera died, I took it apart to see if I could somehow restore its working. As with these sort of devices, the first thing that breaks is typically the power circuit. In this case, the power unit still appeared to be delivering sufficient power... time to dig deeper and take the thing apart. See here some pictures of the device Note the brown coloring... seems the device gets bit hot during regular operations. This is the main PCB, in the right corner empty header. (Serial port) Main PCB Front Main PCB Back Networking PCB Wifi Antenna IR led Empty header detail On the main PCB there is some empty pins. When connecting a serial port, it spits out the linux boot output at 115200bps (at 3.3v): The booting process of my (broken) device: ___ ___ _________ _ / _ \ | \/ || ___ \ | | / /_\ \| . . || |_/ / ___ ___ | |_ | _ || |\/| || __