Turn any camera into a webcam with a $13 USB/HDMI video card

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    There's an ld preload hack that is simpler and potentially lower latency than the loopback device: https://github.com/xkahn/camlink

  • pi-webcam

    Automation to configure a Raspberry Pi as a USB OTG webcam

  • There's this project [0] which turns a Raspberry Pi into a USB webcam. It works with the RPi IR camera.

    [0] https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-webcam

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  • ConfAutomation

    Automation for Zoom + OBS in Educational Environments

  • In the distance learning system I designed/integrated for the private school I teach at, we use these things to dump in video from a document camera (an "Elmo"--- Elmo TT-12) into OBS for compositing and then into Zoom. Some teachers have Chromecast, DVD players, etc, plugged into the video input on the Elmo, too-- it can be pretty amazing the different use cases you can meet with this cheap little toy.

    (Details here https://medium.com/@mlyle_74064/inexpensive-telepresence-for... https://github.com/mlyle/ConfAutomation

  • hawkeye

    An simple and fast USB webcam MJPEG streaming server. (by ipartola)

  • Shameless self promotion: I create a from scratch implementation of a USB-MJPEG streaming server meant to run on low cost hardware. $10 USB web cam + a Raspberry Pi gets you a very simple nanny cam or similar.

    https://github.com/ipartola/hawkeye

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