Webcam back up and running fingers crossed

The webcam is back! We had a chance to play with it in the weekend, and it's been working since. Fingers crossed it will keep going happily.

Some pics from today

The reason it's a bit temperamental is because we're using a standard digital camera, which is not really designed to be running constantly, but does provide wonderful quality images. Sometimes it turns itself off, and then it has to be turned back on manually.

Also it's computer controlled and unfortunately there's no special software to do what we want, so it's hacked together with some trickery (Automator on the Mac for those interested).

Anyway, we'll try to keep it going as reliably as possible, and perhaps set up another lower quality, more reliable camera as a backup.