bsy's List of Internet Accessible Machines


bsy is now at UCSD, and this page is no longer being maintained here. Updates to this page occurs at its new location
This is my list of various interesting machines that are accessible via the Internet. Coke machines and other fun stuff are listed separately.

What's New

  • Xavier the robot at CMU. Remotely controllable via the Web.
  • MIT dorm room
  • Open Market Cambridge
  • Charles River camera
  • RSN camera, done by Tucks (Ski conditions all over).
  • Martin Jakobsen's office camera. May be moved to a coffee machine instead soon.
  • 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

  • Internet Accessible Machines List

  • Speech generation -- in Rob's office
  • Traffic:
  • 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:
  • Xavier the robot at CMU. Remotely controllable via the Web.
  • doppelganger, the first ever fully mobile web-telerobot released/publicized on the web. [ 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 Rapperswil/Switzerland (also in German)
  • WCA Arena and weather radar images (World Championship in Athletics)
  • UK Weather
  • Weather in Turku
  • Kotka Polytechnic Weather Station
  • Helsinki Weather
  • 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
  • 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
  • Remote control model railroad
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Gadgets at CS Club, U Waterloo
  • Light sensor connected to a serial port at LaTech
  • Geiger counter (U Texas)
  • 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.
  • MIT dorm room
  • Open Market Cambridge
  • Charles River camera
  • RSN camera, done by Tucks (Ski conditions all over).
  • Martin Jakobsen's office camera. May be moved to a coffee machine instead soon.
  • 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
  • ENGSOC group at Carleton University cameras (including security cameras, so if you see anything suspicious...)
  • 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
  • NYU's labcam with full motion video (with Netscape 1.1).
  • 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! .... Image automatically updated every 10 minutes with a Connectix QuickCam on a Mac, using Timed Video Grabber. Ant Farm the Movie also available. Open from 11am to 5pm EST.
  • VigraPix'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 Rose's office (two different views)
  • Texas A & M
  • Rome Labs Web Cam
  • The interior of Steve Spencer'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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