Webcampak is a photography appliance. Used with DSLR or Compact cameras it can capture high resolution pictures, create timelapse videos and send those elements to remote servers. Extensively uses open source softwares (gphoto2, ImageMagick, ...)
aeonview is a collection of few php functions to automate image capturing and then patching those images together using ImageMagick's convert and mpgtx to create some supercool timelapse videos. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnywvnjHpUk for preview)