Or use something like WebCam32, then you just need a web browser to view the
picture
http://www.kolban.com/webcam32/

Regards

Mike Rigby-Jones

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harrison Cooper [SMTP:hcooper@ES.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 2:40 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      [OT] Remote Images / Frame grabbers
>
> There was some discussion on frame grabbers and such, I think for security
> purposes or tracking for such things..so I was wondering what ever
> happened
> to those projects.
>
> Here is the scoop.  I was talking to a friend, and he was trying to find
> out
> the easiest way to set up a remote camera and be able to take a picture on
> demand and then view it remotely on his laptop.
>
> I told him that the easiest would be to use a PC in one form or another,
> attach a camera, and run something like PC-Anyway to run it remote.  He is
> running a radio link CDMP, or something like this, similar to a packet
> radio
> system or data link running 800MHz and connected to laptops.
>
> So, not shying away from commercial products already in existence, anyone
> have any good ideas?