I had great great difficulty with making this camera, mostly because my Nephew was very upset by the idea of cutting into a teddy bear, so I had to make sure to hide it from him as I did not want to upset him more. I first cut a small hole in the back of the bear and took out the filling and the right eye so that I could replace it with the small camera. At first I wanted to put the camera into the eye itself but that didn’t seem to have a solution, I am very luckily to have a boyfriend who has a 3D printer, he was able to 3D print a small plastic part which went on the camera to make it easier and more hidden once inserted back into the bear. After making sure the camera was all inserted properly and secure, I sewed it back up and placed it in my sister’s bedroom (of course, I let her know I was doing this) and took pictures throughout the day when she went in and out, again of course making sure she was not revealing anything she didn’t want to be on camera. But I am happy with the outcome of the images.
I quite like the aesthetic this camera gives off with the rounded ‘fisheye’ look and it gets a good view of the whole room which is both great and scary! Either way, I am happy with these images as the teddy bear fits well in her room, if she didn’t know about the camera already, I cannot imagine she would have figured out that there was one in there. The Bear was in her room to begin with and was only taken out to put the camera into and then put straight back, so in reality, nothing could have changed.