Writing an application for a webcam

VulnoX

I am doing my final project for my computer engineering degree, and part of it is that I need to be able to connect a webcam to my laptop, and when a user enters a password into a microcontroller I have setup, and if the password is correct, it snaps their picture.

Now, I will have to write my own app that monitors the serial comm from the microcontroller and all that, and I want to include in the apps GUI the window for the pic of the person that entered the password.

So what I need is to find a webcam that hopefully someone on here has had experience with, that is easy to interface with using Python (preferred).

CE's are not about programming, so my experience is not in this area, but I am going to be learning. So any advice anyone has on good webcams that are easy to work with using your own personal apps, would be greatly appreciated.

Right now I am looking at a Logitech Webcam for Notebooks because, at least according to Logitech, they all use DirectShow and should work, but some friends of mine who are better at coding say DirectShow can be a pain.

Thanks again.

Doc

http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm

I Python libraries.

VulnoX

Thanks for the links, hopefully I can figure out how to code with python in a decent amount of time.