Charging the Little Cyclops battery

Having used my Little Cyclops as an MP3 player for a while (and taken plenty of photos) the battery eventually ran out.

The symptom of this was that the camera went into shutdown mode (flashing RED and YELLOW lights then off) whenever I tried to take a photo - it would power up again as normal, but as soon as I tried to take a photo it shutdown.

So, I took the MicroSD card out to read the contents and plugged the Little Cyclops into a USB charger. And this is where some confusion happened.

When the Little Cyclops is fully charged it switches on - the lights for charging are flashing BLUE and YELLOW - and the lights for there being no card in the camera are (you guessed it) flashing BLUE and YELLOW. So, I never noticed when the camera switched from being charged to reporting there was no card in its slot.

So, the moral of this story is to always leave a working MicroSD card in the slot when charging the Little Cyclops. That way when it's fully charged it will switch from flashing BLUE and YELLOW to steady RED to indicate that it's ready to take videos.