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Sunday, December 8, 2002 |
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Garden Cam woes: Dotcom Garden's cam has been down for 2 months... the cam runs on a Mac PowerBook 2400, a rare model made even rarer by the inclusion of a G3 chip (the 2400 was a 3400 miniaturized by IBM Japan for Apple for the Tokyo businessperson - real estate, including the physical desktop is expensive in Tokyo). Anyway, the EvoCam software for Mac OS 8.x and 9.x crashes and gets corrupted in short order (we have rebooted, re-installed corrupt prefs etc. many times)... the 2400 communicates to the Net via a Farallon WiFi card that (boo, hiss) has only Mac OS 8 and 9 drivers - I can't run it under *nix-based OS X (and the OS X version, which runs gulker.com cam, is more robust of the better part of a year). Both of gulker.com's cams have wireless links, BTW.
The real challenge is to get a better-quality cam with a more interesting angle. I've been debating a tethered baloon with a cam pointed straight down (doubtless, Menlo Park city authoritites would have some opinions about that - but it would be fun to find out). I've been looking at tiny motherboards (like the new Via mini-ITX board) that I could build into some tiny, hacked-to-order outdoor enclosure on a pole or in a tree. Anybody know if the Via will run Darwin? FreeBsd? Linux... Anyway.. still digging... |
Updated 4/16/04; 12:12:08 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:12:08 PM
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