Okay, so it looks like kludged-together crap, but this servo-controlled webcam project shows you how to turn any webcam into one o’ them expensive Orbit cams. Besides a cam, it requires two hobby servos and a Microchip pic16f628(a) microcontroller chip and a Pic Programmer and a perfboard and some misc electronic parts and a lot of patience. What you end up with is not likely to be the easiest or most elegant solution, but it’ll be a cool whirring little computer-controlled desktop machine that you built and programmed.
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