Project Requirements
At work we needed a time lapse camera of our new student center construction project. It needs to run continuously for entire length of construction project - approx 18 months. It should run mostly unattended.
Features
It captures 1 picture every 5 minutes. Storage capacity is cheap, so after using excel to make some projections, this worked out to be a reasonable rate for our resources. After some more research, I came to the conclusion that flash video has compatibility with most visitors while being relatively bandwidth efficient, but other codecs could be used. I originally got the idea from http://mydebian.blogdns.org/?p=261 but it wasn’t quite awesome enough, so I rewrote using Perl and expanded upon it. Continue reading ‘Time Lapse Webcam’