Give Your Cat Twitter Powers

Step 7 Capture an image when the cat gets into bed

To get started with image capture, look at the Processing example File->Example->Libraries->Video (Capture)->GettingStartedCapture. Make sure you install the WinVDIG component mentioned in step 4 if you're on a Windows PC.

Here's a Processing example that, on Mouseclick, captures a video frame and saves it to file in your sketch's data directory.

// Capture an image from an attached webcam and save it to a unique filenameimport processing.video.*;import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;import java.util.Date;Capture cam;void setup() { size(320,240);  // use the default camera  cam = new Capture(this, 320, 240);   }void draw(){}void mousePressed() {  captureImage(makeFilename());}// Capture an image and save it under the passed in filename// in the sketch data directoryString captureImage(String filename) {    if (cam.available() == true) {      cam.read();      image(cam,0,0);      save(dataPath(filename));      println("Captured "+filename);      return filename;    } else {      println("Camera not (yet?) ready.");      return null;    }}  // Create a unique filename based on date & time// @see http://javatechniques.com/blog/dateformat-and-simpledateformat-examples/String makeFilename() {   Date now = new Date();  SimpleDateFormat format =            new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd-HHmmss");  return (format.format(now)+".jpg");}