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Project: Time Lapse

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iambutaseeker

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i saw some footage of the lunar eclipse sped up to 200x this weekend and decided that i would like to set up my not-in-use webcam to take time-lapse footage, if it didnt cost too much or wasnt excessively difficult. i would need a few things:

1. software to create a time-lapse video file from the images
2. software to take pictures at regular intervals [believe my camera junk already does this, though the program kindof sucks]
3. attachment to either wirelessly transmit the usb signal [already have a wireless network] or perhaps a repeater in the USB cable, if i just use an extention.

i would prefer to set this up somewhere that gives me good outdoor footage and in a place that wont be buried by snow. my options are looking like somewhere on a tree so it points at my house. my ideal time-lapse footage would be over a year's time in about 3 minutes. my guess is that i would set it to snap a shot at 11am, 1pm, 3pm, & 5pm daily for 365 days and use 8 images per second [2 days per second, 120 days per minute, so 3 minutes]. i would have to fashion some type of water-tight box with clear 'lens' and consider buying a better camera; however, dlink's [makes my wireless network equip., so where i look first] cheapest wireless webcam would set me back $100. that's a little steep for my purposes. they do sell a wireless usb adapter for $50, but i dont believe that's what i'm looking for.

any ideas, my comrads?
 
Me thinks you almost have to go wireless, incase the USB wire freezes, gets cut, corroded etc...

I'd love to see this when it is complete... And I now want to try it too :D

Great Idea iambutaseeker
 
the important issue is the webcam, the extention choice [cable, wireless?], and software, plus, of course, $$$

my friend has a fat spool of cat5, and we're wondering if we could "mod" a usb adapter onto it. we are concerned about signal loss though, and we dont know what to do in regards to that. i think we're going to make a usb-ethernet adapter, though, [2 of them, removable] and test this, since he has a long enough cable.
 
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