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Really neat time lapse!! Thanks for sharing! What camera did you use?Paul
Very neat Brent. Boy those were some winds what a cool video spill the beans on how you did that ie what camera and software.
Well, It's a basic little ip camera
http://www.airlink101.com/products/aic250.php. It's not wireless and I've had it on my desk snapping pictures out the window for my weather site. For Friday however, I put it on a step stool on the front porch connected to a little wireless access point so I could get it off of my desk.
My weathersite (
http://www.palominovalleyweather.com ) software is pretty much all home grown using perl scripts. This camera can be accessed like a webserver to grab an image, so I just had my perl script add the date and time to each picture I grabbed off the camera. After all the pictures were taken I used some program called 'mencoder' to put them all together. I've got a little linux box dedicated to my weatherstation, and mencode is a little linux utility.
The camera quality isn't that great, but it's easy to interface with and use.
We still haven't sold our old house in California, and I've got a little PTZ camera mounted in a window down there. It's not outside rated, but it's pretty cool. I can login to it over the internet and keep an eye on the old neighborhood, make sure the sprinklers work, the lawn is mowed, nobody is running around inside... IT's the
http://www.airlink101.com/products/aicn747w.php. I had got it on sale at Fry's for pretty cheap. I think you can find them on the internet for around 140$. Again, the camera quality isn't that great, but it's pretty easy to use and work with.
I'm working to mount my fixed camera up on the roof, but I'm going to need to make a little enclosure with a window. Right now it's just spring clamped to the step stool with ziplock bag for protection from the elements