IIRC, the old QuickCAM came with software that would take a picture if the field of fiew of the camera changed much- like an empty room, then someone walks in makes a big change, it saves a picture. a "security feature" if you will. We've had repeated issues with one of the lab rooms, and I'd like to see just who has keys.
I'd like to set something like that up on a old powerbook (hmm.. 5300? maybe) or mabe a SE/30; I have one of each sitting around.
I'd love it if I could find/buy shareware webcam software that would email that photo around, or maybe the old Eudora client is scriptable enough that I could script sending photos as attachments? Not sure about that, and I never did any scripting anyway.
This actually meshes with another project- we are going to try setting up mini-DV cams watching animal burrows, and I was looking for ways to automatically screen the resulting video- there's not going to be much happening, we'd like to be able to pick out the spots with movement rather than spending hours watching boring tape; but the searching I've done so far hasn't turned up any software that will do that- computer recognition of things like that seems to be focussed on calling a triangle a triangle 3 out of 5 times :) never mind that the QuickCAM was doing something like that in real time almost 10 years ago...
Anyway thoughts on either welcome!
Thanks,
Brian --
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