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why though? by all accounts the video quality was terrible

Depending on what you want to hack together, sometimes terrible video quality out of an incredibly cheap machine is acceptable.

At that price, you could afford to buy five of them and the micro computer to amalgamate the camera output into something better than bad.

If all you're looking for is cheap, you can find action cameras like that for around $20 on Amazon, probably even cheaper through AliBaba or similar.