40$ USB super telescope, easy to make, sees craters on the moon

Step 4 Demonstration 1: Weather station

These pictures show the weatherstation on my neighbors house. The first picture is made with my normal photo camera without zooming. The circle shows what the telescope is aimed at. The second and third picture are made with the telescope at 100mm and 210mm zoom setting.

Comments

[Frank Strudel]

Do you know of any software that shows a decent quality full screen live view from USB?

[lgcalex]

its not software, its hardware. Buy a better webcam, read reviews. cheap webcams means crappy video.

[lukeyj15]

But after that, i think he was looking for something that will show the video in real time.

[Frank Strudel]

Yes, but i have no means of accessing any live video from a usb video device on my computer, do you know of any programs to do this. Sorry for not making this clear.

[topper2]

the hardware that you buy should have a driver with it ( usually a mini disck) this is so the computer will know what to do with the new hardware. it usually comes with a software to take videos also.

[storeyc]

Best free webcam software I've found is Yawcam - http://www.yawcam.com/

[harry_osullivan]

camera software called bison cam, or software usually given with webcams AMCAP or something like that...

[Chris Tucker]

I am inexplicably pleased that you live in a neighborhood where your neighbor has such a well appointed weather station.

[Daddio_UK]

Someone was too frightened to climb up on that roof, I think.