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

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.

> I clipped it onto my LEGO RC car base to make a spy car, and drove it around as far as the USB cable reached from my little Sony VAIO laptop.

Neat. A few years ago I made a wireless version with more modern LEGO car and RPi camera. Great fun to drive around until the latency gets you stuck and you have to pry it from behind the sofa :)

https://www.printables.com/model/343226-lego-42099-raspberry...

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?

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.

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...

Next project: Use Game Boy Camera as a Webcam

Nice! Can you record some video with it?

This person is still running macOS 15?

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