Penguins Invade the North Pole

Posted by michael on Saturday May 4, 2002 @08:31AM from the not-as-good-as-jennycam dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "Thanks to a project of the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a webcam has for the first time been installed at the North Pole -- one which runs on Embedded Linux (uClinux), no less! The device was installed on April 28, 2002 and is now logging four images a day, which are available for viewing on NOAA's publicly accessible website. This article at LinuxDevices.com describes the Linux-based webcam (called the NetCam), opens up the device to see what embedded hardware and software are inside, and explains why the NetCam's developers used Embedded Linux as the basis of their design."

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temps by drDugan · 2002-05-04 08:58 · Score: 3, Insightful

It's great the images have the temperatures on them

on THIS ONE the temp got up to a blistering
20.5 F -- but most are around 8-15 degrees.

I wonder how long the hardware will last in extremes like that.

A year? two?