Watch as a block of cheddar cheese reaches its maturity in a year by watching round-the-clock webcam footage over at CheddarVision.

This stunning footage is brought to you be the West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers, the home of real Cheddar. 

I can't wait to tune in again tomorrow!

[via The Presurfer]

If you are curious about what's going on in Leon, Spain or Minneapolis, Minnesota be sure to check out Opentopia which scans for live webcams throughout the internet.

Still interested?  Be sure to check out Jason's post made back in his Hackaday days regarding googling for unsecured security cameras.

Here's a neat hack that shows you how to augment a standard webcam so that you can control it from a web browser.

In true hack fashion, the remote controlled webcam incorporates a multitude of interesting pieces. The author shows you how to:

• open a socket connection from a php script on your web server
• write a simple tcp daemon in c++
• send data to a serial port in VB
• receive serial input and control a servo motor using the basic stamp microprocessor

If you're new to network or embedded programming, go check it out. It might make for a fun weekend project.