Re: Compact cheap "surveilance" camera

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Kent Smith wrote:
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>> So what I'm considering is a compact and reasonably cheap solution to
>> have a time lapse series of digital images taken, ideally, a looped
>> recording so it can just overwrite old images as it fills up.  That way
>> when somebody discovers the doors open I can grab the device and have a
>> look to find who was last there and give them an ear bashing.
>>
> If you have a PC available, just get a USB camera ~$20 off trademe and some
> free video motion sensing software which can trigger a few seconds of
> digital recording.

This is really the cheapest solution. Any old PC with a USB port, plus
something like a D-Link DSB C100.