Last week I was in Dollarama and saw they had a webcam with a built-in microphone for $5.00 (plus tax) under the name "WORK FROM HOME WITH VIVITAR". I bought it, it works, but... The images from the camera are clear, but the resolution is ... not so good (640 x 480). The connector for the camera is USB 2.0. The built-in microphone has a 3.5 audio plug (which I didn't test). So this means you will need an microphone input connector on you computer to use the microphone, If you want to use this was a computer without a microphone connector (yes, I am looking at you Raspberry Pi computers) you will also need the likes of a USB sound card, or put another way you will need two USB ports to fully support this webcam if your computer doesn't have a microphone jack built in. Also, adding even a low-end USB sound card would more than double the cost of this set-up... The camera base is designed to clip over the top of an LCD monitor, if you want to use this camera on a desktop or on a tripod you will have to jury-rig something. I can see some use cases for a $5 webcam, put it in a somewhat dangerous place where you know the camera might get damaged or destroyed, sure, no great loss if things go to @#$%. Need a back-up webcam in case your good webcam fails, sure it is better than nothing (but not by a lot). Want to dabble with home security systems, or simple robots, yes this could be fine to get started with. As a day-in/day-out video conference webcam with "important" people, NO!!!! As I see it this webcam is a decent value for the $, just so few $ that you should pay attention to the camera's ... limitations. Colin.