Scootercam.net is a weather station and webcam outpost clinging to the edge of Lake Michigan.
Scootercam Worldwide, the international conglomerate responsible for this glorified digital peephole, is overseen by Rick Xaver. A former youth and otherwise unremarkable member of society, I am dedicated to spending far too much time, bandwidth, and questionable judgment to keep you updated on lakefront skies.
Don’t mistake this for some noble public service. Scootercam exists mostly to justify hours staring at my MacBook and calling it “important work.” The result? A couple of 24/7 cameras pointed at Lake Michigan, tied to a series of Raspberry Pi single-board computers, and the Python, PHP, and other scripts to hang it all together.