bsy's List of Internet Accessible Machines

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This is my list of various interesting machines that are accessible via the Internet. Coke machines and other fun stuff are listed separately.

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  • PumaPaint, a paint-by-web robot
  • North Pole Cam operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Santa's home is, unfortunately, not visible.
  • WebCams in St. Louis
  • Remote controlled Etch-a-Sketch
  • Light control webcam: you control a TL-bar light and christmas lights -- and get to see the effects!

    • Internet Accessible Machines List

  • Remote controlled Etch-a-Sketch
  • Remote web controlled robot at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  • A Potato-powered Web Server
  • Forum 2000 -- a computer oracle, channelling various famous people; get your free advice here!
  • Mechanical hand made from Legotms! (You can't see the hand waving; only the author can. Which brings to mind: if no observer measures the hand-wave function collapsing, does it make a sound?)
  • On-line Tetris -- not really an Internet Accessible Machine, but cute
  • Traffic:
  • California DOT's map for San Diego
  • Traffic reports at various cities (Boston, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, DC).
  • Detroit Michigan area traffic
  • Interactive map of Minneapolis / St. Paul traffic, showing speed and congestion.
  • Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee Corridor Transportation Information Center, with a congestion map (traffic, not bronchial passages)
  • Houston area traffic
  • Seattle area traffic
  • Real-time traffic report for San Diego, Lost Angeles, and Orange Counties (courtesy Maxwell Laboratories, Caltrans, and the California State Department of Transportation).
  • Robots:
  • PumaPaint, a paint-by-web robot
  • Xavier the robot at CMU. Remotely controllable via the Web.
  • iNTERFACE (nee `doppelganger' the first ever fully mobile web-telerobot released/publicized on the web.) The telerobotic machine will be officially online in a solo art exhibition from August 26th to September 7th, 1996. Users from around the world will be able to leave marks on the gallery floor via the telerobotic machine. [ But remember the 3 laws of robotics when you're operating it, eh? ]
  • Mechanical Gaze: explore Real Remote Spaces via Tele-Robotics (at UC Berkeley
  • The Tele-Garden -- plant, water, monitor the progress of seedlings with a teleoperated robot arm at USC. (See also the predecessor of the Tele-Garden, the Mercury site, a tele-operated robot arm for `archaeological' excavation, now defunct.)
  • teleoperated robot at UWA.
  • `Home brew' weather machines:
  • Weather in Cambridge, UK
  • Weather/Cam in Huddinge, Sweden
  • Indoor/outdoor thermometer at UNC.
  • World's smallest weather station
  • Weather in Rapperswil/Switzerland (also in German)
  • WCA Arena and weather radar images (World Championship in Athletics)
  • UK Weather
  • Weather in Turku
  • Kotka Polytechnic Weather Station
  • Weather machine at Univ Wisconsin
  • University of Washington main square, with weather data.
  • Five day temperature plot for Potsdam, NY, courtesy of crynwr.com.
  • Weather camera at the northernmosst university in the world (Norway, at nearly 70 degrees north.)
  • Weather in Stockholm, Sweden, also in English.
  • The current temperature at University of Colorado at Boulder.
  • Temperature gauge at the University of Maine
  • Weather machines list at UMich
  • Small appliances / home / fun gadgets
  • Toggle a lamp / print a message
  • Oxford Internet Consults' various webcams and other gadgets
  • Speech generation -- in Rob's office
  • JavaRadio
  • Remote controlled radio -- one that you can hear!
  • Home automation and security system, with internet access and control. Of course.
  • -- doorbell, fridge, trashcan, phone, webcams...
  • Live amateur radio -- you control the frequency
  • rodwood@pair.com's pager
  • Internet-accessible CB radios -- using Internet Phone software, you too can look for smokeys while sitting at your desk.
  • Where is Fatso? Finding Fatso the cat is much easier than finding Waldo. A radio transmitter tracks Fatso within the building -- built by SMT, the resident technology group of AS220, a Providence RI arts center.
  • Digital cast -- write a get well msg on Web page form, and a pager attached to Rob Poor's cast vibrates.
  • Remote accessible shortwave radio
  • Page Michael Lockwood
  • Lysator jukebox
  • Talk to a cat
  • Send alphanumeric pager message to Dean Brunette
  • CD being played at the LSC lab in Notre Dame.
  • An Internet monitored restroom (Vanderbilt)
  • Buzbee Bat House Temperature Plot
  • Control a model railroad -- at least I hope it's a model!
  • Remotely accessible CD player at Georgia Tech. Not only can you listen to it, you can change what's being played.
  • Door room door sensor (old interface) via a SLIP machine. Sometimes down.
  • Refrigerator contents of Paul Haas.
  • Hot tub page, with current status (also via finger) and other info.
  • Coffee machine (Cambridge)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Seismograph at KNBC4 in LA. (A camera pointed at seismograph, not direct data.)
  • UNRSL Helicorder Camera (A camera pointed at seismograph, not direct data.)
  • The R/V WECOMA, a ship operated by the Oceanography dept at Oregon State University. If the R/V WECOMA is in port and the data acquisition system is up, you can get the current instrument readings. You can also (New server under construction) finger the ship.
  • Light sensor connected to a serial port at LaTech
  • Video Puzzle (requires 8-bit color, fast Internet throughtput to MIT).
  • `Spy microphones':
  • ALCon local radio samples
  • `Spy cameras' / IndyCams and Movies: You can find a description of how such cameras work, courtesy of Warp California, Inc.
  • North Pole Cam operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Santa's home is, unfortunately, not visible.
  • WebCams in St. Louis
  • Light control webcam: you control a TL-bar light and christmas lights -- and get to see the effects!
  • AngelCam at Ayala Cove at the Angel Island state park where many Asian immigrants were detained. The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation is raising funds for the museum.
  • The People's cam at indigo.org
  • London Jam Cams
  • JonnyCam
  • L. A. Roadway Cam 7th & Broadway in downtown L. A.
  • Falcon Cam: The Northern States Power Company has falcon nests high up on smoke stacks. Highly recommended!
  • Nomadicam a web-browser driven robot w/ a camera. See if you can catch a glimps of chris marget's dog!
  • Telemark Systems' Live Kat Kam in Vancouver, B.C.
  • PandaCam at the San Diego Zoo
  • CorvidCam at the AP&M building of UCSD. The ravens' next contains 4 eggs, and they are estimated to hatch sometime between May 3, 2000 to May 7, 2000.
  • LobsterCam
  • Grand Teton Cam
  • Chad's cyberspace hangout -- Chad and his dorm room
  • Greg's Webcam on only from 10am-10pm Hong Kong time (UTC+8).
  • Splifford Cam in Brooklyn
  • Camvista: many webcams in the UK
  • African Wildlife Cam (also the South African original)
  • Alcyone Systems' AntFarmCam
  • YetAnotherBoringWebcam.
  • Webcams at Tri-state Media News
  • Farmertan's webcam
  • BOFHcam (in UK)
  • Anabella's web cam (Argentinia)
  • Miraflores Locks Cam on the Panama Canal
  • La Jolla Cove Web Cam
  • Loch Ness Live-Cam
  • Dilbert WebCam
  • CamMotion video camera control system, for those of you who want to set up your own webcams.
  • A Fly on the Wall Live web cams of London at work and play. Sometimes a digital media experiment in corporate voyeurism, other times a sneak peak into anonymous home lives.
  • CamCam -- first, there was reflection in programming languages, now, we have reflections in web-cams too!
  • MontrealCam -- 10 cameras situated around town in Montreal, Canada
  • BealeCam in Memphis, TN.
  • On-line robot at Magee Robot group
  • The Weather Channel - Live Studio Cam Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Refreshes every 60 seconds. This is a live image of The Weather Channel studio and the meteorologists at work. The Web-camera overlooks the anchor desk, facing the lights, cameras and monitors. On the left is the blue key wall in front of which the meteorologists stand and present maps while on camera.
  • Oxford Internet Consults' various webcams and other gadgets
  • Webcam for Knoxville Tennessee
  • U_Control web camera
  • Weather/Cam in Huddinge, Sweden
  • KoalaCam at the San Diego Zoo
  • -- doorbell, fridge, trashcan, phone, webcams...
  • GardenCam (note the cute URL!)
  • Ginger's Exotic WolfCam Located in the Bitteroot mountains of N. Idaho, USA
  • RWCS's 3 webcams.
  • Zoey Cam
  • WebCam at Taylor-Made Computing, UK.
  • GarageCam from Cornwall, England
  • Sam's webcam -- view of Jesus College, Cambridge U
  • KPIG radio station with both a web cam and realaudio. (Dallas, TX)
  • Forest Lakes in Shrewsbury Township, PA. See if you can spot any geese etc.
  • Alterd Images office cam
  • Philadelphia view from Lockheed Martin.
  • RWCS office, and outdoor Auburn, CA.
  • New Zealand Motorway, Aucland. The busiest intersection in NZ, with an anonymously erected art piece which the city decided to keep....
  • Nagano Olympics -- view from the top of the ski jumping stadium (Hakuba camera)
  • Webquay in Port Alberni, B.C., Canada
  • TAMU soil physics lab cam
  • View of the intersection of Yonge & Steeles in Toronto
  • CaboCam in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico, aka `Marlin Capital of the World'.
  • WBU Feeder Cam
  • Bread cam -- plus, vote on the kind of bread to bake next! The WBS BreadCam Operations Center is in Menlo Park, CA.
  • SF Chronicle's LiveView
  • Live panoramic views of the river Thames area, London
  • Perceptual Robotics list of cameras that they've designed/built/installed.
  • Digital Dorm -- DormCam, control of lights, etc.
  • KremlinKam
  • Steve's world webcams
  • Fish Corridor Cam in Linköping, Sweden
  • OfficeCam at Basic Telepresence
  • Highway 401 through Toronto -- very impressive
  • Willis-Knighton Robo-Cam
  • Örnsköldsvik WebCam at EnterNet Sweden
  • Bernd, from Jena Germany
  • pbcam at VLSI by Dan Mason
  • Klaus Kettner's office cam
  • Virtue.ML.Org cam
  • Maui -- Kihei, looking right at Molikini
  • Clam Cam in Long Beach, WA
  • Two cams at QCOnline
  • Knoxville TN cam
  • Willis-Knighton Health System's webcam
  • WHEC-TV's tower view of downtown Rochester, NY -- see also WHEC's tower page
  • Scarlet macaw and african grey parrots
  • Forumula One race car -- garage cam (jp)
  • outside a school -- tableau school cam
  • inside a cafe -- tableau school cam
  • traffic -- tableau school cam
  • CMU Cameras page
  • The Net Maiden a web-controlled robotic machinery (w/ camera) for viewing a statue in the Fisher Museum at USC.
  • Helsinki Camera
  • Maui Weather Today's Iao Valley camera
  • Indycam at ZAG, Ljubljan's computation center
  • geocities cam
  • Philip Johnson's new architectural feat, the highly reknown Chapel of St. Basil at U St Thomas in Houston.
  • Omnicam at Columbia CS dept
  • Pine Junction Webcam. See the Rockies at 8500 feet. Pine Junction is located 38 miles SW of Denver, Colorado, a half mile north of the Highway 285 & Highway 126 intersection. The camera usually looks south over Hwy 285 toward the Kenosha & Platte Mountain Ranges in the Pike National Forest, in the Buffalo Creek Recreation Area.
  • Pacific Pawnbrokers Online camera in Sparks, Nevada.
  • Tableau Inc camera at Black Earth, Wisconsin, showing a ski hill; updated every 3 seconds. These folks sell webcams too.
  • TowerCam by News Channel 6 in Richmond, VA.
  • ModemCam -- see the racks of modems at the WaterValley ISP.
  • MauiCam, where you can check out the view from Synchromic Studios.
  • SoapCam -- not in the bathtub, but in Germany! It's a real-time camera from the director's room for a German daily soap. Does Hollywood have some catching up to do? Will the camerapeople be out of a job? And how will this affect the price of tea in China? Tune in tomorrow, on this web page. (Live during the day; random images after the shoot is over at around 6pm German time.)
  • In addition to building fast computers, SGI engineers also do biotech! See their Mold Cam, a live cam of assorted molding leftovers from the fridge. You also get disgusting time-lapse videos, generated on the fly.
  • Dan Moore's dorm room at the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
  • Spy on the Techies, Canadian Coast Guard Network Support.
  • FungiCam at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. No, it's not a problem with athlete's feet -- at the beginning of each month, they will present a culture of a medical important fungus on the page, with an update every six hours; you may enter a contest where you guess the identity of the fungus. A prize will be given to one of the people who submitted the correct answer. And it's educational!
  • Chaotic Santa Cruz Fog Cam
  • Bamboo Bay office camera, overlooking Laguna Beach, CA
  • Internet Alfredo a 24/7 Cyberlounge.
  • JustSurfIt webcams, including the Elbo Room and Bash bars, and the Airshow cam.
  • CatCam
  • Leipzig (former East Germany) camera, in English and in Deutsch
  • Color real-time image of the office of Multisystem Communications, Cincinnati, OH.
  • Einstein at the guinea pig farm
  • Mendip hills, Somerset, England. Picturesque. Currently updated 6 times a day. Color coming soon. Beware of the mad cows.
  • North Main Street in Water Valley, Mississippi, from the front window of the offices of Green Dragon Creations and the Water Valley Interchange. Updated every five minutes.
  • O'Connel bridge cam, in Dublin, Ireland. According to the original contributor, it's just south of the (in?)famous post office where the IRA fought the British in 1917. Another contributor writes that this is a completely different IRA than the current one, and it would be better described as the place where Ireland won their independence from the British. And that it was Easter 1916, not 1917. I don't do British/Irish politics, and my Irish/British history is non-existent: your mileage may vary. If somebody can point me to a (preferably on-line :) definitive reference on the date, I will fix that part; the political nuances I will leave as is, slightly paraphrased from the original contributors. Here is a description of the event, according to web surfers: 1
  • Pizza Corner WebCam. It looks at the corner of Blowers and Grafton Streets in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • Tele-robotic web controllable video camera in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A Digital Media Arts project.
  • Drawbridge-Cam in Boca Raton, Florida, on an intracoastal waterway.
  • Home windowcam of J. Knapp -- in Noblesville, Indiana
  • Michael Kellner's office camera, updated every 30 seconds
  • UNRSL Helicorder Camera -- hopefully the most boring Web Camera ever.
  • GooberCAM at CMU -- view from Doherty hall of Forbes Ave and CMU Robotics Institute.
  • LitterpanCam?!?
  • LivingCam -- looks like somebody's living room
  • IndyCam at the Computer Pod Lab at the University of New Mexico. Brought to you by Chris Snell
  • Camera at Apogee Software (makers of Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, etc). There's also an info page about the camera.
  • Remotely controlled WebCam by the ENGSOC group at Carleton University; you control panning/tilting of the camera
  • Creative Labs camera -- soon to be moved to a higher location (UK)
  • Video Monitoring (could not check out the site myself; link was down)
  • WRAL TV has a updated once per minute capture of what is being broadcasted
  • A webcam in a dorm room at the Indiana Academy (a residential High School).
  • CNN newsroom
  • The Rat Trap at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • MIT student's home. Hopefully no thieves will use this to determine when nobody is home. On the other hand, maybe Lars has other non-camera computer attachments....
  • Open Market Cambridge
  • Charles River camera
  • RSN camera, done by Tucks (Ski conditions all over).
  • Martin Jakobsen's office camera.
  • SWF3 radio station, Baden Baden, Germany -- currently just an office, but soon to be transferred to a studio. Updated every 3 minutes.
  • A consulting office at H/S/D (Germany)
  • Construction at Potsdammer Platz, Berlin
  • Mt Fuji in Japan; a zooming/panning camera is also available.
  • Ghost camera (?!?)
  • Heart of Kowloon Nathan Road, Hong Kong Updated every ten minutes. If you can't go to see Hong Kong reverts to mainland, this is the next best thing!

    Jeff Semler of Corpus Christi ran across this link and told me about it, asking that I give him credit if I used the URL. (This is included only because I did not make my credit policy explicit before.)

  • University of Washington ConstructionCam (their new EE/CSE building; every 10 minutes)
  • Rockefeller Center Plaza Cam, courtesy of France Telecom, and their Eye on the World WebCam page
  • View from the Sutro tower in SF, 1390 feet above sea level. The image is provided courtesy of KGO-TV.
  • ClubCam, a live camera in a nightclub. 10pm-1am mountain time
  • OfficeCam at Brunel U. Today only the interior of an office; tomorrow the world... the world outside the window. (Cable length problems.) Active only 900-1700 GMT.
  • Veronica disk jockeys at work, at Veronica Broadcasting & Publishing Corporation, a Dutch radio station
  • Volcanocam
  • Nick Lehmann's dorm room
  • live image of the SOHO/MDI instrument control room at Goddard Space Flight Center. For information about the SOHO spacecraft, check http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
  • Mawson station in Antartica courtesy of the Australian Antarctic Division; the picture is updated hourly.
  • Prysm's camera in Shreveport, Louisiana (Prysm is an ISP)
  • City Of Night BBS in Alameda CA (island in San Francisco bay).
  • Camera at CMU's Network Development group
  • Homecom's office and 23rd floor view of Atlanta
  • Santa Cruz beach by the Image Processing and Multimedia Lab of UCSC
  • c|net studio cam at c|net central. (See also their story)
  • Santa Monica Beachcam
  • San Diego BayCam
  • Syndey, Australia, as seen from Matthew A Perkins' window.
  • Lake of the Ozarks LakeCam
  • Iguana images
  • Pikes Peak CAM Softronics, Colorado Springs, CO
  • Cheyenne Mountain CAM, CERAM, Colorado Springs, CO
  • The DomeCam -- points at the University of Notre Dame's Golden Dome:
  • RalphCam
  • Feet Cam at the Queen Mary and Westfield College in London
  • Niagara Falls
  • ShuttleCAM "up to the second" snapshot of the Space Shuttle
  • Caltech LabCam by Michael Palmer
  • Lance Berc's office (but please don't steal any secrets from his whiteboard.)
  • The 20th street bridge in San Francisco See the cars come, see the cars go. See the abandoned cars that never move from under the bridge.
  • KPIX TV camera pointed at the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Studio 2000 at U Darmstadt.
  • An interactive map showing the location of ORL personnel as determined by their Active Badge system. Also A live, interactive view of the city of Cambridge. All from Olivetti Research Lab.
  • Steve's Ant Farm See the live ants -- dig tunnels, build bridges, move mountains! ....
  • VigraPix's CanyonCam
  • Space needle in Seattle, WA.
  • University of Washington main square, with weather data.
  • FogCam!, a picture of the Instructional Technology office at San Francisco State U.
  • Chicago Animate Agent Lab Camera at U Chicago.
  • Cal arts department
  • Len Roses 's office (two different views)
  • Texas A & M
  • Rome Labs Web Cam
  • The interior of Steve Spencers 's office, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), 1224 Kinnear Road, Columbus OH.
  • Technical University of Clausthal (Germany) [slow link]
  • COMMA Vision Lab Camera at University of Wales College of Cardiff Cardiff, Wales, UK.
  • Camera outside Dirac Science Library at Florida State University, SCRI
  • University of Maryland CS dept snapshots
  • Aquarium info (rg@elmendorf.camb-lads.loral.com).
  • Fish Cam
  • Real-time guana images at iguana.images.com
  • Sami Tikka's office (in Finland)
  • Eto Kouichirou (aka Peep Hole on the Internet) at room Omnicron 507 in Keio University, Japan. MPEG also available.
  • Dennis Gannon (Research Director of the Center for Innovative Computer Applications) office computer

    • If you hear of any other Internet accessible machines, please let me know.

    I will not give you credit for simply running across the link; if you were involved in the construction of the site, that's a different matter. Typically this should be done at the destination Web page itself, since you'll want to have control over updates as you continue to work on the site.

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