Motion
Saturday 11 December 2010 ◷ 17:57
Motion is a piece of software that does something with a webcam, like when you point a webcam - or several webcams - at some place it can be configured to detect a certain amount of motion in a particular area of the image and then create a movie or send the image somewhere. All very complicated so I just installed it and plugged my webcam in and forgot about it. And when I returned from a week's holiday somewhere in some directory it had stored a bunch of images like this: