M y adventures of building a smart home on a shoestring budget are taking an interesting turn. It turns out that I don’t need ...

I wanted to setup a camera to watch my apartment, using a cheapo webcam and Yawcam. While Yawcam is great for its features, motion detection based on pixel comparison just produces too many false ...

These days, surveillance cameras are all around us, and they’re smarter than ever. In particular, many of them are running advanced algorithms to recognize faces and scan license plates, compiling ...

Motion detection is the magic ingredient in the current wave of do-it-yourself home security cameras. Thanks to built-in sensors that vigilantly monitor their field of view for movement, you can go ...