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The Papa Fernandez Web Cam faces south-east, looking across Bahia Willard towards the Sea of Cortez. It takes photos 24 hours per day, every 30 minutes, on the hour and at half past the hour. Images are displayed on the Web site home page both as individual photos and as 24-hour "time-lapse" videos. Images come from an Olympus D-400Z 1.3 mega-pixel digital camera housed in a weather-proof plastic box. The camera is hosted courtesy of Doug and Peggy Magee.

Photos are uploaded via a RS-232 serial connection (using photopc) to the same "hacked" Linksys WRT54GL WiFi access point used for the Papa Fernandez weather station. The WRT54GL runs an open-source version of embedded Linux called OpenWRT. The extra energy required to power the Web camera 24-hours per day is miniscule, under 0.1 watts. The WiFi access point, weather station, and Web camera all are powered by 12 VDC generated from solar panels.

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