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Legocam: My Lego webcam from 2000, working on a modern Mac

17 points benkelly 1 day ago 13 comments

mococa 57 minutes ago | parent

What's the typical usage of a Lego's webcam?

christkv 50 minutes ago | parent

Stop motion animation of your little lego adventures.

benkelly 41 minutes ago | parent

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. :)

mococa 36 minutes ago | parent

Cool!

Jolter 57 minutes ago | parent

This person is still running macOS 15?

Doohickey-d 54 minutes ago | parent

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...

rf15 43 minutes ago | parent

> 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.

MrBuddyCasino 11 minutes ago | parent

Why did people flag benkelly’s reply? I don’t understand.

boformer 26 minutes ago | parent

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.

asdfsa32 21 minutes ago | parent

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.

lloydatkinson 15 minutes ago | parent

I agree. For basically two or three short paragraphs too...