How we built a web controlled robot with SSL tunnels and perl

I find the "and perl" part particularly dubious. Here's an excerpt:<p><pre><code> system("echo '$mydata' &#62; /home/rhett/usernick"); system('/home/rhett/music_player.rb &#38;'); system('/home/rhett/servos/phidgets-examples/AdvancedServo-simple &#38;'); </code></pre> As a former perl hacker, this kind of stuff was infuriating to me before, but it just seems silly now.

<p><pre><code> Serving live video over the internet The Cam.ly security camera and interface system is super simple to set up. Plug power into the camera and connect it to the internet. Point and shoot. We slightly changed the interface for the pinata buster. We won’t talk more about this part because how it works exactly is a trade secret. </code></pre> It's seriously disappointing that they refuse to talk about the streaming code. Last year I tried to build a web-enabled robot. I never found a way to stream the live video from the web-cam to a flash widget. There were lots of online services and commercial products, but no open-source stack.<p>It looks like Cam.ly will become unusable when the manufacturer's online web service goes down.