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One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE (https://www.404media.co)

107 points by colinprince 5 days ago | 5 comments | View on ycombinator

Scoundreller 5 days ago |

Happy to see the dashcam discourse.

Mine runs about 100mb/minute (these things don’t compress much), so make sure you consider that when buying an SD card.

You may not want to hold toooo much but I suppose you could oversize+underprovision to get some more write cycles.

Virtually all have a “save” button to avoid overwriting segments.

You’ll need some car mods if you want the to continuously record (and cutout if battery voltage gets too low). Mine at least has a tiny capacitor (or battery?) to detect movement and kick on for 15 seconds while disconnected for a few cycles.

erentz 5 days ago |

dsamarin 4 days ago |

I would be happy to see the corresponding crowd sourcing for more bodycams for ICE and CBP as well

decremental 5 days ago |

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