Homemade Home Security
Build a 4-camera surveillance system and watch from any web browser.
My basement office/workshop is a fair distance from the front of the house, and I frequently want to check the front porch for mail, UPS deliveries, and the arrival of friends. I have experimented with various ways of monitoring the activity there and have found none as useful as a real-time video feed.
Getting video from a camera on the front porch to a screen in the basement is a trivial undertaking, but as projects like this are apt to do, it grew into a $200 four-camera, full-color system that can be monitored in my workshop or from ...
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