GM11, Thats what I am looking for!
For now cheap webcams, will be used, we need cams for different experiments the kids are setting up, and each experiment they want to have on the web site 'LIVE', so we have to go the cheap option for now. Getting hold of old cams and small ones broken laptops isnt too hard, ok quality isnt great but its a start! I wasnt sure if you could get a converter like that. We are being given 4 ip cams as well, but I am trying to use as much free and recycled stuff as we can, no one is going to mind a crappy £10 webcam we got for free or found in a tip, if we set it up inside a bird box, obviously its easier to run ethernet cable 100 meters than usb cable, and makes getting the cam on the web site easier.
I did my arm in putting the backhoe on the tractor, I was actually digging out one of the ponds.. A pin slipped out and one the safety chains caught on a lever as part of the arm system dropped, the tractor had its engine running so the back arm moved when the lever was pulled, my arm was between the backhoe and hydraulic lift arms, man it hurt!!!
Anyway the kids want some underwater cams!! in the ponds. The whole thing has been alot of fun so far. If I can get someone to help design the site, then hopefully we can make it really interesting, we have a small heard of red deer that live in our wood, and some pine martins and red squirrels, in the summer we had over 200 pairs of swallows nesting here, loads of bats and all kinds of wildlife, so sticking cams around the place should be good for the kids to set up and monitor.
There are loads of biology/ecology experiments I have for them to start. Anyway thank you for the information, now I know you can get a converter chip, I can start asking people to look out for old webcams being chucked out