It's Monday afternoon and our contractor has already dropped off the lumber for the forms and the rebar. Work on our new driveway will begin on Wednesday with the tear-out of the 20 year old crumbled, cracked mess we have now. We will also be getting a side lot so our son can park his car there out of the way of the garage.
In preparation for all this, I've set up a PC and two web cameras to record all the glorious action. One such camera is a Linksys Wireless Web Camera with built-in web server. It serves up live continues images of the action as it unfolds. You can view it at http://24.163.201.242/img/main_fs.htm or by clicking on the Driveway Web Cam link under "Interests" at the top of this blog site. Note that you must have Internet Explorer to view and that only 4 people can be watching at the same time. So if you can't get in, its probably because too many people are watching already. Sorry, its the limits of the Linksys Web Cam.
Here is a shot of the setup. I 'borrowed' my 3Ghz Pentium Seti@Home system for this so that I could hook up a second camera, a Creative WebCam NX Pro, to do image captures every 10 seconds. In this way, I can build a time-lapse video of the work one its all completed.
This whole setup it in the attic over the garage and looks directly down onto the driveway. Because both web cameras were not meant for outdoor shots, I had to tape gray sunglass lenses over each one and also place tinted film on the window. I did not have any power in this space, so I installed an outlet by taping into an existing line running through the attic. And finally, because this is 'so important', I have a 750watt UPS on the whole setup so nothing is missed even if the power goes out! Yup, I'm a geek.
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