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RooCam LIVE!
The RooCam doesn't usually have a set schedule. However, your best chances for seeing something other than a test pattern are Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights, between 9:00pm and Midnight, U.S. Central Time.
Check back often, however, and watch what happens!
The current RooCam is a 19-inch Huion Kamvas GT-191 v2 digitizing tablet, very similar to a Wacom Cintiq. It is powered by Faline, an AMD Athlon 5350 Quad Core system I built back in 2015, currently running Windows 10. (I am not a huge Microsoft fan and I run Windows only because the tablet driver and most of the graphics applications I use require Windows.)
My graphics applications of choice are Clip Studio Paint and Adobe Photoshop CS5.
The previous RooCam was actually three computers: First was my old Tablet PC, Luna, where I did my drawing/coloring. Luna's external VGA port was piped through an R/F converter into a video capture board on my Media PC, Faline, which ran UStream Producer and WinAmp to produce streaming video and audio. A third computer, Bambi, is my Linux desktop which I still use to monitor the stream, interact with audience members.
The Original RooCam, which I put together WAY back in 1995, was a camcorder connected my PC via a video capture board. I also occasionally used a WebCam. The PC automatically captured images from the camera and uploaded them to the RooCam LIVE! home page, once every 3-5 minutes. The camera was usually pointed at my drawing board and gave viewers an "over the shoulder" view while I drew cartoons and created other works of art.
THE ORIGINAL ROOCAM SOFTWARE!
The original RooCam was operated by RooCam 2.0 from RooIndustria Software. This program can acquire an image from any TWAIN-compliant video source, save the image as a jpeg file, then upload the jpeg to a remote host computer, manually or automatically via FTP, at set intervals. The help files have yet to be written, but hopefully you will find the program is reasonably self-explanatory.
Contact me if you have any questions or comments.