Looking for a wireless webcam for 600e

[tcturner2002]

Hi all,
I have a 600E (model 2645, 128m, 10g, P2, Win 98SE) that I'd like to view video on from a wireless webcam. Can anyone recommend a good brand? Small and cheap is more important than good video quality, but I'd like it to be reliable. Thanks!

[lenmullen]

Hi all,
I have a 600E (model 2645, 128m, 10g, P2, Win 98SE) that I'd like to view video on from a wireless webcam. Can anyone recommend a good brand? Small and cheap is more important than good video quality, but I'd like it to be reliable. Thanks!

I think you need to provide a little more information.

Budget would help bound your options.

You can get a wireless camera with an integrated server. This would have the least impact on your laptop.

A less expensive camera would require some kind of encoding at the laptop.

What are you going to be looking? Motion? Time lapse? Night? Color?

[tcturner2002]

I think you need to provide a little more information.

OK, probably the best way to do this would be to explain what I'm trying to do. A friend and I are making a telepresence robot that we need a webcam for. The camera needs to sit on top of the robot (that's why we want it small) and transmit live video that can be viewed both over the Internet and on the Thinkpad (which will be within wifi range). I also plan on using a D-Link DI-624 router.

Budget would help bound your options.

Less than $100 would be nice, but I'm flexible.

You can get a wireless camera with an integrated server. This would have the least impact on your laptop.

That would work, but we won't always have broadband so the server will need to work on a wifi LAN also.

A less expensive camera would require some kind of encoding at the laptop.

That would work too. Mostly I'm concerned about what the Thinkpad's processor can handle. That's why (I think...) low quality, or at least an option to use low quality, would be better.

What are you going to be looking? Motion? Time lapse? Night? Color?

Nothing special. Just typical video will do, and color isn't necessary. We don't even a high framerate. We only need to be able to tell what the robot is "seeing" so we can tell it to move.

Hope this makes sense. Thanks for the help![/quote]

[lenmullen]

I'll link this just because I think it's cool. You could use a 'server' with a tv tuner tuned to ch 59 to grab this and use windows media encoder to stream the video locally or over the internet...

http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bi ... &key=C2000

This is probably the right way to do things. Again, you need to capture analog...

http://www.boostervision.com/boostervision/default.asp

Maybe a bluetooth pc camera?

Take a look at these forums for help with cameras...

http://www.roboburp.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=3