DIY: Build Motion Sensor Security system using Laptop Camera for ...

by Taranfx

Most notebooks come with WebCams or most people have it separately plugged-in via USB. If you don’t have it, not a big deal, they cost around $10-40.

We will use a free software accompanying your cam that will together make a Fool Proof motion detection system.

Highlight cam is a free software you can register online and start monitoring immediately and make your PC a security system and act as a silent security guard for your office, Home or any other space.

Features:

* Motion alert notifications sent via Email * Off-site backup in case the intruder takes the computer

How to Setup:

It’s damn easy. Follow the link and Register and plugin your camera and then you’ll be asked to take a still recording of your workspace/environment you intend to monitor with no movement. It tries to adapt and learn the environment.

Then you can set the software to begin recording when motion is detected. There you go, you not only detect motion, you capture it too.

Source: DIY: Build Motion Sensor Security system using Laptop Camera for ...

DIY Biotechnologists Go Looking for a Bigger Garage

14.07.10

This is a worldview shaped by the era of personal computing and the Internet. There is an easy analogy that can be made, after all, to the computer industry. The first computers were huge machines built for the military, government, and industry. Then, in the late 70s, computers became personal machines mass produced for consumer use (though the supercomputer variants never went away). 

Whole ecosystems sprang up to help entrepreneurs use these new, cheap machines to build businesses. The open, lean, collaborative business culture now associated with Silicon Valley flourished. Could the same thing happen in biology? Gentry and her co-founders think so.

"The Bay Area is home to many networks that help entrepreneurs launch web businesses with a shoestring budget and a dream. Similar support infrastructure does not yet exist for biotech ventures," their wiki continues. "Until recently, biotech has required large start up costs. An ecosystem of mentorship and a network of investors who understand the possibilities for lean-biotech-start ups to leverage shared resources and amplify their creative efforts to have disproportionate commercial impact, is urgently needed. BioCurious will catalyze the formation of this system."

Source: The Atlantic (blog)

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