Christoph Buenger shares this great low-cost surveillance camera build via codeproject.com:

This article describes how to build a surveillance cam based on a Raspberry Pi micro-computer which records HD video when something moves in the monitored area. Live picture can be viewed from any web browser, even from your mobile while you’re on the road.

What you will get:

• See live stream in any web browser from anywhere
• Record any motion into video file

Usually, such a cam will cost you around US$2.000, but with the result from this article, you will get such a cam for only about US$100.

Read more.

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Raspberry Pi Camera Board – The Raspberry Pi Camera Module is a custom designed add-on for Raspberry Pi. It attaches to Raspberry Pi by way of one of the two small sockets on the board upper surface. This interface uses the dedicated CSI interface, which was designed especially for interfacing to cameras. The CSI bus is capable of extremely high data rates, and it exclusively carries pixel data. (read more)

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1 Comment

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   Miguel Lopes

   October 18, 2013 at 5:46 pm

   Best captcha EVER!

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