This is an old revision of the document!


Prepaid Phone as Motorcycle Camera

Advantages

  1. Inexpensive
  2. Always on Wifi built in
  3. Backup photos automatically

Phones

Cheap pre-paid camera phone using Android. I picked the Moto E. It's running an older version of Android but it works just fine. I only plan to mount it on the motorcycle and use it for photos.

The available camera's are likely to change fairly quickly. If you buy a cheap camera, under $50, you can expect to get something a couple generations old running a couple generations older Android OS.

Apps

I used “24/7 Time Lapse Light” for time lapse. It can take a picture a second. Used 8% of my battery in 43 minutes taking 1920×1080 pictures every 5 seconds and used 358.64MB of storage space.

Storage Space Per Hour

2GB taking 1 picture per second or 400 MB taking a picture every 5 seconds.

comments powered by Disqus
prepaid_phone_as_motorcycle_camera.1469198156.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/06/01 22:53 (external edit)