Hi
[ before I tell you more about the house building process (which might not be
as fascinating for you as it is for me) I want to tell you about the
wireless cam and receiver I bought:
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I found this gadget on ebay, and it looked just incredibly useful - I have
plans to put a camera on a RC plane.
I thought I will put the camera and video sender seen on
http://www.webtruck.org/unimog/video_link_html?
on the plane, but now I found a much smaller one:
http://www.webtruck.org/history/2003/may/wirelesscam/?
To test how it works together with the RC control (interferences?) I put it
on my RC car and then went for a drive in the yard.
See video:
http://www.webtruck.org/history/2003/may/wirelesscam/driving_html?
Unfortunately the plane is not ready yet, as I did not receive all the parts
in the kit...
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OK, back to the house:
In my last email I wrote that the walls have been set up - within a day they
put all the elements together.
As I knew this was the day with the most action on the construction site, I
added an second camera with a wide angle lense to capture a picture every
10 seconds ( 2mins on the 1st one).
You can see a preview of the video clip here
http://www.webtruck.org/history/2003/may/setwallclip_html?
with just about 1/3 of the whole day.
To get the full picture you should get the complete video here (12MB, 8min 22s):
http://www.webtruck.org/share/housecam/wide1.mpg?
I have been too busy to add the usual weekly video clip - if you want it let
me know.
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On to the BAD news:
I will be out of the office most of the time for the next 4 weeks - I have
to do military service.
This will be my last service in the swiss army - I have mixed feelings about
it. This time I did not have anybody at hand to give instructions to keep
all computers and services @ webtruck.org running - we'll see how it keeps
up... If not I will be at home on weekends and I might drop in to fix
things.
If you're willing to keep an eye on it while I'm away just let me know - I
have a email address that goes straight to my cellular phone.
I can do some administrative tasks using the Palm Pilot or the Jornada 720
connected throught the cellular phone.
Normally I dont announce it to everybody when I am gone, because some
hooligans might try to break things while I am away, but recently I did not
have any ill behaving users, so I do tell you in advance and I ask for
patience if things dont work as smooth as they normally do.
Swiss army information site - I serve in a hospital unit
http://www.vbs.admin.ch/internet/Heer/BALOG/e/asan/index.htm
Some impressions from my last services 1999 and 2001
http://www2.seiz.ch/spitabt73/?
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When I set up the http://www.webtruck.org/memberpic/?
folder, some members asked me about my picture - I added one I took 2 years
ago in uniform - looking quite happy, as we were off duty in a garden
restaurant :-)
OK, your turn to upload a picture...
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I upgraded OfficeCam to the latest software release and moved it to the same
computer that runs BoxCam - less systems to monitor while I am gone.
If the weather is hot while I am gone, the room might overheat, so I am
glad to have found a way to have one less on to serve webtruck.org.
Now there are just 4 running in my office, plus the firewall system in the
server room where there is no thermal problem :-)
Why so many you might wonder?
in the office:
- Parmesan.seiz.ch aka server.webtruck.org
runs BoxCam and OfficeCam as well as the Office audio stream
- Camembert.seiz.ch
Zope server, picture storage, PassageCam (now streaming
cartoon network)
- Server.seiz.ch
RemoteCam video, Phone Server, webtruck mail processing
- Servy.seiz.ch
controls both RemoteCam and WebTruck
in the server room:
- Roth.seiz.ch aka www.webtruck.org
firewall, proxy for all internal systems, mail server
and I almost forgot
on the roof:
- tracker.seiz.ch
TrackCam, Track audio stream
btw, I found a nice picture of the building:
http://www.webtruck.org/cams/track/aerial_html?
a bird view of the whole building
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lines of email... normally I write between 30 and 50 lines
That was a bit long - hope it will keep you happy until I am back :-)
WebTruck