I walked to my car today and found that someone had keyed it. I have no idea who would do that to me; it's not even riced or anything, and I don't have any terrible dispositions with anyone as far as I know to where anyone would want to do that......

Now, I have seen some neat license plate cameras. I did a thread search and couldn't find the thread on them. I want something that has an extremely low draw and can go on for a few days. I have a 99 Civic EX with an Optima Yellowtop 51R. [Aside: Now, wait, now that I think about it, I know where I parked my car, and I know who would have done it. He walked by where my car was parked and walked by the coffeeshop where I am. He keyed my car before, and now he will suffer by deer urine and glass cutter.] I need four cameras that have extremely low current draw, and I'm willing to spend the money on a nano-itx board that can take maybe 32MB of pictures/slow video in RAM and back up to compactflash or hard disk. Any ideas here?

 

bump i wanna know too

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by parasonic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I walked to my car today and found that someone had keyed it. I have no idea who would do that to me; it's not even riced or anything, and I don't have any terrible dispositions with anyone as far as I know to where anyone would want to do that......

Now, I have seen some neat license plate cameras. I did a thread search and couldn't find the thread on them. I want something that has an extremely low draw and can go on for a few days. I have a 99 Civic EX with an Optima Yellowtop 51R. [Aside: Now, wait, now that I think about it, I know where I parked my car, and I know who would have done it. He walked by where my car was parked and walked by the coffeeshop where I am. He keyed my car before, and now he will suffer by deer urine and glass cutter.] I need four cameras that have extremely low current draw, and I'm willing to spend the money on a nano-itx board that can take maybe 32MB of pictures/slow video in RAM and back up to compactflash or hard disk. Any ideas here?</TD></TR></TABLE>Check out your local "spy" store, there are lots of low draw, small, or "pinhole" cameras out there, you could also try Radio Shack, I have seen some there. 94

 

creative labs has one. You can configure it to send pics every xx seconds/minutes to an email address.

 

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now we're talkin about a monthly service..

 

Is there something that has like a camera that can sense movement and rotate by itself when somebody gets close to your car? and also comes with a recorder blah blah blah, my viper 791 xv doesnt pick up stuff like spraypaints in case my car gets vandalized, i live in a bad neighborhood

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BrokeAssPinoy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Is there something that has like a camera that can sense movement and rotate by itself when somebody gets close to your car? and also comes with a recorder blah blah blah, my viper 791 xv doesnt pick up stuff like spraypaints in case my car gets vandalized, i live in a bad neighborhood</TD></TR></TABLE>"Nothing is impossible, the impossible takes longer and costs more money" it would be way cheaper to use a wide angle lens and a motion sen. both are available and cheap, I don't know what a targeting radar and servo motors and the ECU to control them would cost, but I bet its way more then a pr. of wide angle lens cameras and and a motion sen. 94

 

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any other ideas? I want somethign mounted inside the CAR and the recorder being portable and wireless

 

I'm probably going to have to design an embedded system this time.

Example:
Embedded Cirrus board running a Linux 2.4 kernel
USB cameras that have Linux support
12V motion detectors to power visible/IR light sources and trigger a fast-frame (maybe 4fps) image acquisition

Now, this would take some money. And another deep cycle battery. Even though the embedded board draws 2W, it would have to spin up a hard disk drive to record those images once the RAM was filled or after a given time interval, whichever comes first.

This sketchball keyed my car. I'm going to get him back. WIth evidence.

 

i saw this on pimp my ride. never caught the brand though.