Feels like a lot of current hacks are about how to overcome the limit of a totally optional software prison rather than be creative with what can be done with the unexpected combination of software and hardware.
That's not actually progress but a regression due to walled gardens.
Thanks for opening up ... but also why even get to such a bad spot in the first place?
asdfsa32 34 minutes ago [-]
So this is how it is going to be? AI written everywhere?
> I read that driver and copied the protocol: which registers to write, in which order, to wake the sensor up and start streaming.
> legocam is GPL-2.0, like the driver it learned from.
Please write yourself.
andai 8 minutes ago [-]
Well, it makes sense that the author of the driver should write about it.
haritha-j 17 minutes ago [-]
> It runs at about 5 frames per second. That's the limit of USB 1.1 and the sensor clock, not the code.
lloydatkinson 28 minutes ago [-]
I agree. For basically two or three short paragraphs too...
When I scroll through someone's personal blog and every single post is AI written I get that AI nausea/fatigue feeling.
andai 9 minutes ago [-]
Nice! Can you record some video with it?
buibuibui 13 minutes ago [-]
Next project: Use Game Boy Camera as a Webcam
Doohickey-d 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks to Linux, but also thanks to OBS's virtual webcam for being signed and allowing any arbitrary applications to push frames to it?
That kind of makes Apple's signed camera extension requirement a bit useless, since any application that wants to be a camera, or wants to support some odball USB camera, could just ship the OBS one?
Smells a bit insecure to me, but also helpful as a tinkerer...
MrBuddyCasino 24 minutes ago [-]
Why did people flag benkelly’s reply? I don’t understand.
benkelly 53 minutes ago [-]
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rf15 56 minutes ago [-]
> That kind of makes Apple's signed camera extension requirement a bit useless
It also makes me question of how much in good faith that requirement was made in the first place, or if it's just there to make more money for Apple & Friends.
boformer 39 minutes ago [-]
Well done! It's crazy that Apple forces you to pay to sign your own software. Another reason to never buy any of their products.
andai 6 minutes ago [-]
A nominal fee keeps out most of the Linux users.
Jolter 1 hours ago [-]
This person is still running macOS 15?
benkelly 52 minutes ago [-]
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mococa 1 hours ago [-]
What's the typical usage of a Lego's webcam?
benkelly 54 minutes ago [-]
It came with the LEGO & Steven Spielberg MovieMaker set, so stop motion was the idea. As a kid, I clipped it onto a LEGO RC car and drove it round the house as a spy car, as far as the USB cable reached. :)
andai 5 minutes ago [-]
Oh that's awesome. I made some stop motion films as a kid, using a webcam and some freeware on Windows.
I had a bunch of play-doh, but no art skills, so it ended up being 100% blob monsters.
mococa 49 minutes ago [-]
Cool!
christkv 1 hours ago [-]
Stop motion animation of your little lego adventures.
Rendered at 11:03:54 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
That's not actually progress but a regression due to walled gardens.
Thanks for opening up ... but also why even get to such a bad spot in the first place?
> I read that driver and copied the protocol: which registers to write, in which order, to wake the sensor up and start streaming.
> legocam is GPL-2.0, like the driver it learned from.
Please write yourself.
When I scroll through someone's personal blog and every single post is AI written I get that AI nausea/fatigue feeling.
That kind of makes Apple's signed camera extension requirement a bit useless, since any application that wants to be a camera, or wants to support some odball USB camera, could just ship the OBS one?
Smells a bit insecure to me, but also helpful as a tinkerer...
It also makes me question of how much in good faith that requirement was made in the first place, or if it's just there to make more money for Apple & Friends.
I had a bunch of play-doh, but no art skills, so it ended up being 100% blob monsters.