I’ve grown accustomed to the cloud. As much as I hate its buzzword-y-ness, its nice to have everything of mine on every one of my devices at all times. Unfortunately, that doesn’t extend itself to the IRL whiteboard I have in my room. $2.50 and a few hours later fixed that though

The Project

To connect this whiteboard to the internet so I don’t forget what I wrote on my lists

The How

Using this webcam and a little program that takes pictures and uploads them every hour

The Result

6 hours worth of images taken on Nov 19th

The Materials

A Webcam: I used a Logitech C260. It was painted black to make it less noticeable (it was pink originally). $2.50 at Goodwill

DSGrab.exe: A free program found here. It works real nicely but has to be controlled through command prompt. Windows only

My Timelapse script: HERE. Note the easiest way to wait in cmd is to ping something for an hour with one packet (which I find amusing)

Then all I had to do was use my dummy account on windows, set a time schedule so that when I boot my program it’ll open the program and start taking pictures. It is important to put the whole folder in your Dropbox (or Google Drive or Skydrive etc etc) so it updates automatically. Voila, its done! No I can cross it off my whiteboard.