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legocam: my LEGO webcam from 2000, working on a modern Mac

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A retro LEGO camera powered by a Logitech QuickCam from 2000 is revived on modern macOS using a user-space driver built with libusb and the gspca_stv06xx protocol. The project streams raw frames to stdout, which are displayed via ffplay and then fed into OBS Virtual Camera to work with Zoom and FaceTime, highlighting open-source hardware hacking. The write-up covers what it can and cannot do, credit to the Linux driver, and links to the GitHub repository.

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