DIY Home Surveillance

The old unused junk lying around the house can come in handy sometimes. Make a powerful home surveillance kit using an old PC and a webcam. Professional kits are available although unless you are seriously looking to install a security surveillance system for your home, you can create one yourself as a hobby. It is as simple as hooking up your webcam to a laptop or a PC and using a software such as "Yawcam", "homeCamera", "Yois" or "EyeSpyFX". This allows your webcam to act as a Security camera, recording footage, taking snapshots at regular intervals. The best feature is that it can even detect motion. The webcam activates as soon as it detects motion and takes snapshots and video recording of the environment and emails them to you, wherever you are. You can even get a text notification of it in your cellphone.