A colleague of mine demonstrated a Wyze webcam a couple of weeks before. A nifty little FullHD wireless IP camera that has a decent (iOS/Android) app and cloud connectivity to store the data.
I liked everything about it, except the cloud-storage part. I don’t like it when I don’t know where my private data resides. So I started a to search to see if these devices could be altered to benefit my needs, and guess what, they can be altered.

There’s a github project where they fabricated a firmware hack and with custom software the camera can be used for much more. So now I had to get my hands on the most inexpensive version of the camera. Since there are different brands that ship basically the same hardware with a different firmware, there’s more than enough choice.