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A lot of people may think that a robot is not fully a robot if it isnt autonomous, in other words if it is not able to move for extended. This is a list of opensource hardware projects, including computer systems and components, cameras, radio, telephony, science education, machines and tools, robotics. Spykee Robot Software' title='Spykee Robot Software' />DIY home surveillance with a Webcam. CNET Josh Lowensohn. Were on the tail end of the summer vacation season, which according to the FBI is one of the peak periods of home burglaries. Chances are good youre about to head out of town, leaving your dwelling to fend for itself against intruders. Got a house sitter or an alarm system Good for you. If not, there are a handful of ways to turn a computer into a tool that will alert you if someones there who shouldnt be. For the sake of this guide were keeping things simple and limiting our list to free apps that work on PCs, Macs, or both. A few simply use your browser. Later on we also have a section on specialty hardware that can take you beyond what most Webcams are capable of. The software. Software can offer a definite piece of mind over browser based solutions. Most of these apps can run quietly in the background, and can save footage to your hard drive for archiving. High end Webcams often come with their own security software, so in the spirit of this guide, were going with generic software that should work with any model Yawcam PC. Yawcam is free and PC only. Its a complex program but not too complex to set up. The app lets you set whether you want to capture all of the motion within the frame or just a part of it. I used it to track motion in a specific part of my workplace CNET colleague Rafe Needlemans office door. Futura Ttf Rapidshare. Any time he came in or out of his office it took a photo. At home this is more useful if you point it toward something like a door or entry way, which can keep it from picking up one of your pets moving around. The app does an exceptional job at letting you pick various ways you want to be notified. You can have it upload screen shots to an FTP site or as an e mail. It can also play any sound on your computer, or start another program such as a lock down or keyboard locking application. Yawcam can be set to snap and e mail a pic whenever it senses motion. It was one of the easiest tools to set up. CNET. I set mine up with Gmail, which was a snap. You just have to have plug in the outgoing settings on Googles help page and it will send a high quality screen shot of whatever motion its captured just a few seconds after it happens. Using this with your phones e mail address will give you a live alert and a saved copy of all the shots in Gmails sent folder. Home. Camera PC. This software runs a streaming video client that can be accessed from any computer with a browser. You can view either live video or snapshots that can be taken at intervals or on demand. Home. Cameras secret sauce is being able to e mail you when youre not there. You can have it send you an SMS alert, or an e mail both of which can link to the video or a snapshot. You can also set it to record video or take sequential shots on a precise schedule. Yoics PC. Yoics is a remote desktop application with a lot of tricks up its sleeve. Remote Webcam security is one of them. You can very quickly add a Webcam that can be streamed to a private Web address, along with having its footage archived to the local machine. It can also be set up not only to send you an e mail if it detects motion but also send a note to a Twitter account and upload whatever footage its captured to You. Tube or Daily Motion. There is quite a bit of setup involved though, and the wizard that walks you through it is bound to overwhelm the average user. Eye. Spy. FX PC Mac. This software works on Windows and Mac and has a mobile viewer that can be accessed on a handful of devices, including the i. Phone. I tried it on a Mac. The software, while primitive, does a good job with privacy the only way to access your stream is with your cameras special PIN. It also supposedly keeps an online and offline archive of your footage, although I couldnt get either to work. Honorable mention If youre willing to shell out 3. Mac only Evo. Cam, which Ive heard good things about. It does motion capturing, e mails, and offers mobile access. Its not included in this roundup since it costs money to use. The Webware. Webware can sometimes be less capable than software but on the plus side theres nothing to install. And in many cases, you can use the same service with a single account on several machines. Some of the ones on this list can also support multiple cameras at once, which is handy for covering more than one room or house at a time. Ugolog. Ugolog is a really easy Web based security tool that displays live footage and an archive of snapshots from your Webcam. It works with any camera thats attached to your computer or a remote camera with an IP address. While there is no way to receive alerts via e mail, the service provides alerts via an RSS feed for every camera you have set up. Using a service like Pingie previous coverage, would let you get an SMS alert every time a new photo shows up. Another thing to note is that archiving is not unlimited. In the course of a few hours I used 2. MB of my 5. GB monthly storage allotment. While this pro plan is free during Ugologs beta period, the eventual free plan drops that storage down to 1. MB per month. Then again, if youre using it for only a few days and arent expecting any motion, this isnt a problem. Ugolog gives you a time line of any time its picked up motion. You can then cruise through the stills its taken at 4x speed. CNET. UStream. tv Justin. Both UStream and Justin. Theres also a way to make the stream password protected, meaning only you and those youve given the code to will be able to see it. Theres no time limit on recording, which means you can leave it running for days, then come back to an archive that lives on the Web. Now, this may not be as great as using one of the aforementioned tools that uses motion detection, but if someone does in fact break into your house and steal your computer, the archive wont be stolen too. An honorable mention goes to Livestream. Specialty hardware. Now, were not telling you to go out and buy a professional security setup, but there are a few specialty Webcams that make it easier to keep an eye on things when youre out. All of them come with bundled software, meaning you dont necessarily have to use some of the tools mentioned above. Panasonic. Tilt and pan Webcams Panasonic BL C1. A wireless network camera 2. This Webcam has a few things going for it. For one, you dont have to have a computer running for it to be on. It just needs a power plug and a working wireless router in range. Its got a handful of sensors that you can set up to watch for motion, listen for sound, or pick up thermal images. It can also pan and tilt remotely, letting you take control of it from another computer. D Link DCS 5. 22. Wireless PanTilt Network Camera 2. D Links wireless pan and tilt camera also works remotely, and without the need to be attached to a computer. It can be accessed and controlled in a browser on a regular computer or through a mobile phone browser. Remote controlled robots Wo. Wees Rovio 2. 99. Half RC car, half Webcam, Wow. Wees Rovio lets you view live video and steer it from any Web browser. Its equipped with Wi Fi so there are no wires for it to get caught on. And its got LED headlights and a way point system you can place that keep you from having to manually steer it from one end of the house to the other. This gadget is obviously not so helpful if you live in a multistory dwelling or are trying to dissuade a live burglary, but it gives you far more maneuverability than youd get with a stationary Webcam. The Spykee is half toy, half surveillance unit. Erector. Meccano Spykee The Wi Fi Spy Robot 1. The Spykee is a Webcam strapped to a set of rubber treads that look quite a bit like Jonny 5 from the film Short Circuit. It costs less than some of the above tilt and pan wireless Webcams. It also doubles as a toy since you can add on all sorts of attachments onto the robotic base using parts from Erector play sets.