Yes, you can. There are even tutorials for doing things like motion detection: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/turn-your-pi-into-a-low-cost-hd-surveillance-ca

Yes, you can. There are even tutorials for doing things like motion detection: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/turn-your-pi-into-a-low-cost-hd-surveillance-cam/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/turn-your-pi-into-a-low-cos... However, for the really fancy stuff, you probably wanna look into programming for the VPU, which has some pretty decent muscle behind it.