Curious to know if I can replace the tx in a wireless security cam with an 802.11 dongle and make it a network cam.
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Think about it.
In your camera, the image starts out life digitally getting clocked out of a CCD (Charged Coupled Device - BTW, check out who won the 2009 Nobel Physics award and what it was for! Yep, the lowly CCD found in just about every digital camera in the world.). This has to be turned into an analog "brightness" signal and a frequency modulated "color" signal. Then that modulates a radio frequency carrier and out it goes.
In sharp contrast, in a network camera, the digital image is compressed using mathematical transform for either pictures or motion pictures. This is all digital and uses dedicated HW or, more likely, a processor. This then becomes available over an Ethernet which is no small task in its self. Think about this. The camera can attach its self to a network and serve up a web page to anyplace in the world.
Sure, you can probably put enough things together to do what you are suggesting. But I can't imagine using what you end up with on a regular bases. But if you are just having fun - go for it!
-good luck
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