 Okay, those of you who watch the channel know I got the best computer in the world, ThinkPad X200, but there's one thing. I realize my X200 does not have. Yeah, I got the maxed out RAM, yeah I got the solid state drive, but I don't have a webcam. Now you can put a webcam in here, but it doesn't actually, mine at least didn't come with one by default. You can actually see where it goes. So in this video I'm going to put a webcam in my ThinkPad and this should work pretty much on any other ThinkPad, they all pretty much come apart more or less the same way. So anyway, let's get this party started. So the supplies you're going to need aside from, of course, the ThinkPad is a little webcam kit and you can actually get these off eBay, they're pretty cheap, mine was around $10. So here's the actual webcam. This thing is going to help stabilize it and keep it screwed down. Here are the screws that came with it and this thing here is going to replace the little portion, you know, it makes, it's, you know, the little hole that the webcam can actually see through. So you're going to need one of these again around $10 on eBay. Once you do, you can get this party started. Okay, so the first thing we're going to want to do is unscrew this little frame that goes over, the basal, whatever it's called, bezel. I don't know how you pronounce it. So there are these three little things, little circles. There's one, there's another, and there's the last one. These three circles, they're actually just coverings for screws. So the first thing we're going to do is remove them. Now I'm going to use my knife here, I've got to get it undone with one hand. Actually I'm going to transfer this to my left hand and what you're going to want to do is sort of pry into these little circles, which hopefully I can do. Do it safely. And these little stickers should just sort of pop out if you give them the right, yeah, so you'll see mine has fallen out, unleashing this little screw here. So just do that for the other two as well. And once you have gotten all of the three out, you should of course have three screws which are totally visible and you're probably able to guess what you're going to do next. Next you're just going to want to unscrew all three of these. So I'm going to do that really briefly. Okay, so once you got all your screws out, this is the part that's a little weird and it actually takes a little bit of faith, but you're going to want to take off this basal. And how you do it is you might be tempted to just start prying the little opening on any side. But the best place to start is actually down here. Now you're going to want to get something to pry in here. I have a breeze card as you can see and you should be able to get some leverage here. Now the reason you want to start at this base here is because this part, based on the angle, if you start pulling out by any other side, it's going to be a lot more difficult to actually pull the screen out. So go ahead and start loosening this up. Okay, I might be able to do it with my hands at this point. Be very careful. Don't pull too quickly and of course make sure you have all the screws out. I guess there's a possibility that your model might have more screws than mine. I don't honestly know. All of the ThinkPad models I know I have dealt with just have these three screws, but you're just going to see this side's coming up. Nice. Okay, so now that the basal's removed. This is what the webcam area is going to look like. Now you'll notice there are two cords here. This one on the right, that is for the think light. It goes up, see this little white thing? I'm pretty sure that's the actual think light. So we're not going to worry about this. This thing on the left, it should be plugged into nothing. In fact, there might be a little protective cover on it. That's the thing we're actually going to put in the webcam. So let me go ahead and show you how exactly we're going to put this in. Now this can vary from model to model. So for the X200, you're going to take this little, I mean notice the way it's aligned, but you're going to take this thing and this is actually going to go on top of the webcam. And all together, see these little two screws up here, or screw locations? They're going to go where these two screws are right here. And for example, this hole over here, or these two holes, they're going to correspond to a little indentation, I don't know if you can see it right there. And this little core here, what we're going to do with that is we are going to stuff it in this little entry point here, and that's where it actually connects to the webcam. So that's how you do it. First things first, we're going to remove these little screws here. So now that the screws are removed, we have to remove some physical objects. We're going to remove this little black thing here, but we're also going to remove this thing here, and this little Z-shaped thing with like a wire coming out, and this little thing here. Now this is actually an antenna. In fact, all up here, these things here, they're all antennas. That's what the cords are for. Now this one here, of course, is in our way. Now you have a couple options. You can just cut it out. That's totally fine. This is a redundant, to my understanding, at least on the X200 and should be on similar models. This is a MIMO antenna, and it's actually redundant. You don't need it, and if you don't have an Intel Wi-Fi card, it doesn't even matter. It doesn't even have an effect anyway. Otherwise, you're still going to be fine, but you know, so this thing, you can either remove it totally, just cut it out. Or if you have space over here, you can actually move it over. Now I think I'm actually going to move mine over. So this is an antenna here. This is an antenna here. Notice the cords going to both of them. I think I'm going to try and move this antenna over to this vacant area, and then move this there. Hopefully that'll work, but now these little things here, this is tape. This stuff here, you can just cut that. This tape actually is taped down behind the screen. If you really want, you can go and untape it, but that's sort of redundant. So you can just cut it with a knife or something, and then you should be able to just pry this thing out. It is sort of adhesive down, but there's nothing else tying it down besides that adhesive and this tape. So I'm going to remove this and probably remove this, and probably try and move them over. Otherwise, I'm just going to cut this thing out. So here we go. Okay, so now I've relocated these antennas so I can have more room, and you want room up into this point where you have the little slot here, which does that? Take a screw. I'm not even sure. We'll figure out. So I haven't totally dealt with these wires. I'm going to deal with them when I actually put the thing in. But anyway, the other thing we need to do is get rid of this little black thing, because it's just sort of a buffer zone where the camera is going to go. So I'm going to pry that out as well. All right, that took way more effort than I wanted it to. I actually had to pull out the tweezers on that, but yeah, so once you want to make sure that you can see this little thing here, again, this is the thing that actually plugs into the webcam. Now you might notice there's a protective film around it. So the next thing you're going to want to do is with pliers or something else that's very delicate, you're going to want to get rid of this protective film. I think I'm going to do it off-camera because it might be a little too delicate to do with one hand. And if I put it on the tripod, you frankly won't be able to see it. So I'm going to do this real quick. All right, I got it. But I get it with the tow clippers. So that worked out pretty well. Okay, so now it's the simple part. I'm sick of taking apart little tiny things. Now we're just going to screw everything in. So again, this thing, well, actually let's go ahead and start putting stuff in. So first we have our little webcam. Now pull this so it's not underneath the webcam and just sort of dump it in there. This tape is sort of in the way as well. And you want it to just sort of fall into place. Now what you want to do next is make sure you have the little orange cord that's for the data plugged into the little white output box. So it's going to be a tight fit, but just make sure you got it. Make sure all the film is off of it in case too. And once you have that in place, you're going to want to put the little silver protector like tie-in thing on top of it. Make sure all of the screws line up perfectly. So the two screws that you unscrewed before should align with the two holes on both the webcam and the little silver tie-in thing. And then you're just going to want to screw it in. And that's what I'm going to do here. You're sort of looking at my hand right now. But yeah, and once you screw it in, the webcam should be pretty much secure and basically in place. So we're about ready to put back on the bezel, but there's one more thing to do. That is the bezel, of course, has by default this totally blank webcam area thing. Now the webcam kit came with a replacement for that that has a little hole for the webcam. So let's just poke this thing out. It's actually pretty easy. I'm pretty sure it's just the kind of adhesive. Now if you flip it over in the back, you should see those little holes on all this stuff. And you're going to notice that it's a bunch of little junk sticking to this little adhesive thing. But anyway, it doesn't matter. So just, you know, push it out in whatever way. Actually, maybe I'll pull it towards me. Oh yeah, that works. So you can very easily push it out. Let me flip it over so you can see what's going on. Now I've sort of loosened this just by pushing on it a little. And I should be able to just peel it out. If I had fingernails. Now I'm going to have to, come on. Man, today is not my day. Today is not my day. Oh, no, there it goes. Today is my day. Forget it. Okay, great. So it's exactly what we want it to look like. So let's replace it with this new adhesive that has a nice little hole in it. I'm pretty sure it goes on like this. Yeah, I can see the indentation. So I'm going to peel this off, I guess. Yeah, there it comes. One hand. Look at that. One hand. One hand. Actually, let's go ahead and start putting it on. I think that I'm actually pulling, am I actually pulling out the adhesive already? Okay, there it is. All right. I got it. I got it. And now we're just going to make sure and get this nice and precise, but pretty much exactly. I want to get it super right on it. I got to make sure it's going to bother me if I get just the millimeter off. Okay. That looks about right. And yep, there are some air bubbles, but if they are visible, I'll just remove this and try again, but I think there is nothing over where the webcam is actually going to display. So that should be it. Now let's go ahead and put this thing back on where it belongs. Okay, now to return the basil to where it belongs. This should pretty much just snap on. It's the easy part. Yep, that's just working. Just working. I'm going to make sure it all snaps. I think there's still some parts down here. All right, that sounds about right. All right, so looking good. Still going to snap up here. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and turn this thing on and hopefully I can go ahead and access the webcam. Let's see what it looks like. Okay, so boot it up. Now it should show up in dev. So if I list the stuff in dev, it should, yeah, there it is, video zero. Maybe this is actually working. So let me try, let me run mpv on dev video zero. Moment of truth, let's see if something happens. Something happening. Oh my God, it's actually working. Look at that. Wow, there we are. Man, this is, oh my God, wait, hold up. What's this? Oh my God, there's some kind of splotch. I guess I'm going to have to go figure out what the hell that is. But we got this thing working. I'm actually surprised, I'm actually surprised it worked. I sort of felt like it wasn't going to, but this thing apparently worked out. So webcam, I'm going to go fix that splotch, whatever it is. Hopefully it's just something on the film here so I don't have to open anything up. But yeah, that's how you add a webcam to your ThinkPad and now I got everything. Even if it has a little splotch on it, I'll fix it. Alright so just an update, as you can see I have the webcam playing right now. There's no splotch, it ends up once I started opening the thing up, I think it was part of the little black pillow buffer thing they have. It just sort of, when I was ripping it out maybe one part got stuck but it fell out when I started opening it. So now it's all clean, as you can see I have a webcam. Here I am doing the final edits to this video you're watching right now. But anyway, so around $10 or so is all it takes to get one of these ThinkPad webcam kits. I think they're sort of different models for different clusters of ThinkPad families. I think this X200 has the same as an X200 tablet and the slim version and I think maybe the X220 and stuff like that. But look it up on eBay if you're interested. I think most modern ThinkPads just all come with webcams but this is for those of you who happened to be like me and didn't have one. So yeah super easy improvement and that's about it. So I guess, I see I'm glad I have a YouTube channel now because I actually get stuff done like otherwise I'd just be saying oh maybe I should add a webcam to my computer maybe I should replace this part or something but now I actually have a reason to do it. And I noticed because no one else had done this for ThinkPads on YouTube yet but now it's out there. Hope you enjoyed it. Hope you learned something. See you on the flip side. So thanks for watching.