There are many many places that you can find these, and the cheap ones are cheap and so is the image. This is a definitive lesson in you get what you pay for. They are tremendously entertaining... believe me. I put one on my wire fox terrier... and oh my... what a ride... took him to the park and waited until we found a squirrel. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. I flew the F/a-18 sim and did a cat launch.. believe me when I say a terrier does one every time it launches... Board cameras are really the way to go. You can get the cheapo wireless cameras, and with some of this and that (mostly the time is what I don't have) and yes, you can make it better. Why.... just spring for a little more dough and get something you can make some use of. The little $30 cameras are short ranged. Max is 50-75' Good quality is 25-50 feet. Board cameras, double the range and quality, but you go from $30.00 to $120.00
If you want to be a stud, get a 5.6" color monitor LCD display and mount it on your Trasmitter ($116.95). Get a view of your sail set all the way around the course. I also found that when you get to that regatta with the mark WAAaaaaay down there.. and it is DOWN wind.. so every boat in the fleet is between you and your boat and the mark... man... can you nail that rounding... oh... you can also plug the camera's reciever into the Sony Handy Cam, and tape the whole thing. Works like a charm.
Take a paddlewheel and connect it to a bicycle computer, put the computer display in front of that camera you were using to watch your marks, and now you have boat speed read out too. Some smart guy will tranfer over the new telemetry from the car radios that use GPS and give speed, RPM etc all on your Transmitter.
Then, I have a wonk here that has been using one of my test boats and he has been recording data for 6 weeks now. He is writing the software to have the onboard PC (amazing what these guys can do with an old laptop) control the winch to set the sails automatically.
Again, too many to list, but here are a couple... Have fun! they are great entertainment.
http://www.surveillance-spy-cameras.com ... eras.htm#2
http://www.maxmax.com/AXRayBoardCamera.htm
http://www.mars-cam.com/cameras/board_c ... /v1245.htm
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