Montaigne, Mike wrote:

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>steppers or servos and but HOW DO I SEND COMMANDS / IMPLEMENT SOFTWARE
>TO CONTROL THE CAMERA FROM A DIALED IN WEB USER?   We are controlling
>experiments remotely, sometimes from our office, sometimes from home,
>and sometimes at a off site university.
>
> I would appreciate any comments, advice or help about this magic, if
>you have any and will share them with me.................tks

You have to write a cgi that will talk to a PIC hanging on the the serial
port. A cgi (Common Gateway Interface) is an app that act as a helper to
the web server. It is usually a standalone application and therefore slower
than a server plug-in. Guess you can write cgis in VisualBasic on a PC
without too much trouble. Can't help you much more - I have a pan & tilt
QuickCam that has been running continously for 3 years now; Mac-based  :-)
<http://129.16.63.135>

Cheers,


Goeran Stigler      <http://www.pe.chalmers.se/people/ghost/>