DigiHack - Digital Photography projects: Webcam Telescope
What an awesome little project for the geeks with DIY skills out there 
If you’re like me and collected all things new and digital during the 90’s, then I can almost guarantee you have a bunch of old web-cams lying around doing nothing. The resolution on these things tends to be so bad that it’s difficult to almost make out yourself when you’re ‘chatting’ online with one of them. Despite all this, I was looking for a creative way to use my excess in web cam (I think I have around 6 or seven of them by now). About a year ago I lived in a high-rise flat in a place called Nove Butovice on the outskirts of Prague with a large nature preserve that sort of slopped down and away into the distance. While the winds that would blow in from it were wicked in the winter, when it was warm out it provided some pretty nice views of people picnicking, walking their dogs, and of the wildlife. It occurred to me that a telescope would be fun to have, but they were expensive for a casual interest that essentially amounts to people-watching.
