Take a photo every time the lid is open using the laptop camera.

Hey, ever seen those time-lapse videos of plants growing up in a BBC documentary and thought wish I could do that for me.

You haven’t? I knew.

But here is how you would do it if you had thought of doing it. ( in OSX )

It also helped me to see who tried to open up my laptop when I was not around.

I started doing this in march of 2016 ( now have about 3700 images ) and from time to time try creating something like a time-lapse. It is kinda fun. Maybe, at least for some.

How to # (https://blog.meain.io/2018/profiling-yourself/#how-to) Step 1 # (https://blog.meain.io/2018/profiling-yourself/#step-1) Install imagesnap (https://github.com/rharder/imgnap).

Step 2 # (https://blog.meain.io/2018/profiling-yourself/#step-2) Keep this in a file named imageme.sh in a folder any folder.

#!/bin/sh DATE=$(date “+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S”) imagesnap -w 2.00 “$HOME/.loginimages/$DATE.jpg” What the above script does is it creates a date string with year-month-day-hour-minute-second and now take a picture using imagesnap and save it to your home directory.

The -w 2.00 is a wait time so as to make sure we get your photo.

Step 3 # (https://blog.meain.io/2018/profiling-yourself/#step-3) Install sleepwatcher (http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/).

You could download the binary from the above webpage or install using homebrew (recommended).

brew install sleepwatcher

Step 4 # (https://blog.meain.io/2018/profiling-yourself/#step-4) Now to actually run the script on wakeup.

Add this to file /etc/rc.wakeup

#!/bin/bash

Run the following script on wakeup

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin /Users/$USER/.imagescript/imageme.sh Here, replace /Users/$USER/.imagescript/imageme.sh with the path to where you saved the imageme.sh script.

Step 5 # (https://blog.meain.io/2018/profiling-yourself/#step-5) Take a nap. zzzz.