webcam thing

John Larkin · 2012-11-08T23:13:53+00:00

Can you open this? This is a sorta cool way to do a surveillance webcam. A mini-itx PC runs XP, with a USB camera. Yawcam picks up an image now and then (every 3 minutes here) and dumps it into a shared Dropbox folder. The Logitec C310 works pretty well in daylight. Most other cams, like the Microsoft ones, are blinded by sunlit streets or snow. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom laser drivers and controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation

Nov 08, 2012 25 Replies

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Jasen Betts 13 years ago

it basically only needs to know they are zip files

This guy figured out how to make it do that in 2010:

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I don't know if those config tweaks are now standard or not.

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John Devereux 13 years ago

Clever idea, I had not thought of that - not totally impossible then.

John Devereux

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Robert Baer 13 years ago

I do NOT have a DropBox account and it opened just like any "normal" URL.

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John Larkin 13 years ago

Right. I can post a link to any file, and anybody can open it as a web page. The key is all those nonsense characters in the middle. They are essentially a password.

John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

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Phil Hobbs 13 years ago

It won't merge general binaries, but it will at least merge OpenOffice documents, or so I'm told. It does require an external merge tool.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net

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josephkk 13 years ago

One thing for sure, SSDs boot a lot faster than rotating disks.

?-)

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