I've been working on a mount and a fairly rugged case for my RPi camera recently, some photos here
https://picasaweb.google.com/selsinork/RPiCamera
The end goal being to do some timelapse and video where the camera would need to be outside in a rather hostile environment
This was the result from earlier today
the little camera did well 
Edit: does the embedded video work ? I don't see it, so here's the link http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1255yy_sandiefield-road-demolition_webcam
It's setup as passive PoE, 12v ish down the two unused pairs and a local switching regulator to provide 5v to the Pi.
video saved over nfs to a 2TB drive. unfortunately the raspivid app seems to have some problems running under screen, when you exited the parent terminal screen was started from the Pi would reboot. Even just running raspivid in the background with '&' is unreliable so I really wasn't sure I'd caught it. I have several bits of video that ended early and even just a loop in a shell script to keep restarting it appeared to cause the Pi to reset at some point.
Not a lamp post, but a bracket bolted to the outside of my window.. As you can guess, that was well inside the evacuation zone. So me sat much further back trying to stop it rebooting while using a 3G connection was somewhat frustrating. Thankfully it was rebooting rather than locking up, if it had locked up there would have been nothing I could do.
I cropped a few mins off the start of the video, but where it ends is due to another reboot. I thing something like 20-25mins was the max I got without a reboot. Still, worth it in the end 
It's setup as passive PoE, 12v ish down the two unused pairs and a local switching regulator to provide 5v to the Pi.
video saved over nfs to a 2TB drive. unfortunately the raspivid app seems to have some problems running under screen, when you exited the parent terminal screen was started from the Pi would reboot. Even just running raspivid in the background with '&' is unreliable so I really wasn't sure I'd caught it. I have several bits of video that ended early and even just a loop in a shell script to keep restarting it appeared to cause the Pi to reset at some point.
Not a lamp post, but a bracket bolted to the outside of my window.. As you can guess, that was well inside the evacuation zone. So me sat much further back trying to stop it rebooting while using a 3G connection was somewhat frustrating. Thankfully it was rebooting rather than locking up, if it had locked up there would have been nothing I could do.
I cropped a few mins off the start of the video, but where it ends is due to another reboot. I thing something like 20-25mins was the max I got without a reboot. Still, worth it in the end
