Edward Andrew Robinson » spy http://www.earobinson.org “Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things.” — Unknown Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 OLPC Spy Cam http://www.earobinson.org/2008/02/09/olpc-spy-cam/ http://www.earobinson.org/2008/02/09/olpc-spy-cam/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:23:33 +0000 Edward Andrew Robinson http://www.earobinson.org/2008/02/09/olpc-spy-cam/ So now that I have my XO OLPC computer I wanted to find something to do with it. As I said before its the web cam that really impressed me and so I decided to start playing with that. After jumping onto the #OLPC freenode irc room and asking them a few questions I was quickly able to write this python program.

Set it up as a cron job and upload pictures from outside my apartment window every hour. I’m not sure how long ill be keeping it running and if I play with the laptop and dont turn off the script I guess it will upload pictures of me.

Well for anyone interested the important code to take a picture is: [sourcecode language="python"]os.system(‘gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc ! filesink location=’ + filename)[/sourcecode] and I would love to hear what you have been doing with your XO.

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