  The Princeton Variability Survey (PVS) is a robotic survey which makes use of
readily available, ``off-the-shelf'' type hardware products, in conjunction
with a powerful set of commercial software products, in order to monitor and
discover variable objects in the night sky. The main goal of the PVS has been
to devise an automated telescope and data reduction system, requiring only
moderate technical and financial resources to assemble, which may be easily
replicated by the dedicated amateur, a student group, or a professional and
used to study and discover a variety of variable objects, such as stars. This
paper describes the hardware and software components of the PVS device as well
as observational results from the initial season of the PVS, including the
discovery of a new bright variable star.
