I remember a few years ago, making your own pc casing and your own computer hookup for pretty much unlimited mp3 playing. Has anyone thought about taking a webcam apart, wiring it hidden and to an extra option on a remote to capture video of the driver if the car is stolen?

Just an off the wall thought that occurred to me when I was watching a commercial that had the backup camera on an SUV last night. (If you can't park it, don't drive it.)

John

 

no but it wouldn't be a bad idea, could mount it on the rearview mirror and hook it up the same way a reverse camera is wired up, once the car goes into gear

 

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Hadn't thought about the mirror. You'ld have to figure out where to put it so the wires from the camera aren't showing. I suppose you could ghetto rig some of the x-22 cameras. There's a bunch of ways you could hide a drive, the harder part would be hiding the pc board. I thought if it was set to automatically capture like 20 seconds of video on bootup (when power goes on car starting), then assuming you can recover it, you have a video of the person driving the car.

If you wanted to be really techno about it, you could rig a wireless in there (mac mini would be great for this app I think), and rig up a standalone wardriving type program that continually scans for an unprotected wireless network, and dumps it via wireless to a remote terminal.

John