Because it was a black and white camera, it only had a single IR filter which was easy to remove. The bare silicon sensor, unhindered by RGB color filters, had

Because it was a black and white camera, it only had a single IR filter which was easy to remove. The bare silicon sensor, unhindered by RGB color filters, had surprisingly good near-IR performance. We rigged up a bunch of IR LEDs and had a pretty good night vision webcam. I still have mine in the parts bin. Some day I should find a parallel port and try using it again to see how terrible it really was. :)