Raspberry Pi WebCam with 3G (Solarcam)

The Idea

• Use solar panel to harvest energy
• Store the energy in a left over car battery
• Power a Pi with camera and 3G-Stick
• Make a nice webcam out of it :)

How To

Update your Pi

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Install USB-Modeswitch

apt-get install usb-modeswitch

(you'll need this later to switch your stick from mass storage to modem mode)

Create network interface

Add to /etc/network/interfaces

iface eth1 inet dhcp
allow-hotplug eth1
shutdown -r now

Tips

• Remember that this Pi is in the wild and easily stolen or all the data read
• Don't use your usual passwords for this project
• Don't store keys on the Pi
• Let your master server fetch the data
• Create a special user to access the data from remote

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• Links
  • http://zieren.de/raspberry-pi/huawei-e303-3g-stick/