[mdlug] Wall wart devices

[Peter Bart]

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 09:08 -0500, David McMillan wrote: 
> 	I'm looking for a gizmo that may not yet exist.  Although if anyone has 
> a good suggestion, I'm willing to break out my soldering iron.
> 	Here's the situation:  I have developed a need for a covert nannycam 
> device that can be placed unobtrusively.  Unfortunately, I can't run any 
> cables to this device, and it needs to be able to hide in plain sight. 
> I've done a lot of shopping around "spy shack" type places, but most of 
> what I've found is painfully obvious, or outrageously priced.
> 	However, a new "wall wart" stuck in the wall plug isn't going to 
> attract any attention.  Which seemed like a perfect solution, until I 
> found that no one seems to make a camera disguised as a wall wart.
> 	Something like a GuruPlug or a Wifi-enabled SheevaPlug might do the 
> job, *if* I could somehow cram a small webcam *inside* the housing. 
> However, that's not happening.
> 	Then I started to wonder:  what would it take to cram a small SBC and a 
> webcam into a wall-wart housing, equip it with HomePNA or WiFi, and set 
> it up as a sort of webcam server to my network?  I'm not a Linux novice, 
> but SBCs are something completely new to me.
> 	My needs are pretty minimal, geared more towards small size, low heat, 
> low maintenance; I would really only need a minimal distro setup that 
> could run motion and some sort of micro web server.  Or... I dunno, is 
> there a way to "serve" a USB port transparently from one computer to 
> another?
> 	Anyway, has anyone seen anything like this?  A decent instructable to 
> use as a jumping-off point would be sufficient -- I just keep coming up 
> empty using Google.
> 

Dear David,
Not what your asking, but may be interesting:
<http://ez-toyz.com/Nanny_Cameras_Spy.asp>
-- 
Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber