A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Snap Camera is a desktop application by the Snapchat folks which allows you to apply their filters (“Lenses” as they call it) onto your webcam footage. The cool part is the fact that the app also exposes itself as a webcam to your system. That way you can use the (fake) Snap Camera as the …
Amazing rundown by Ryan Pickren on how he gained unauthorized Camera access on iOS and macOS. We started on a normal HTTP website and ended up on a bastardized blob URI in a Secure Context. Here is a quick summary of how we did it: Open evil HTTP website HTTP website becomes a data: URI …
Matt Staufer has done an extensive writeup on his video/streaming setup. I’ve spent quite a bit of time obsessing over lights and camera, and I wanted to help you—new streamer, podcaster, new remote worker, or someone trying to level up their setup—see a few different types of option for your remote work or streaming setup. …
Fun little experiment that mirrors your webcam into your favicon. Tiny Mirror → 🔥 The aforementioned favico.js (from 2013!) also comes with a “Webcam video to icon” option. Next to mirroring the webcam into your favicon it also supports badges, videos, etc. 🍰 Looking to display (pie)charts in your favicon? Piecon can do that for …
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window.addEventListener(‘load’, function() { barcode.config.start = 0.1; barcode.config.end = 0.9; barcode.config.video = ‘#barcodevideo’; barcode.config.canvas = ‘#barcodecanvas’; barcode.config.canvasg = ‘#barcodecanvasg’; barcode.setHandler(function(barcode) { document.getElementById(‘result’).innerHTML = barcode; }); barcode.init(); }); An HTML5 barcode scanner which scans EAN-13 barcodes using a webcam. HTML Barcode Scanner (GitHub) → Original repo was removed. Forked repos can be found below Did this help …
Takes a snapshot with your Mac’s built-in iSight/FaceTime webcam every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it. UPDATE 2017.01.03: Jelle Vandebeeck has written down some instructions on setting this up. Since this was originally posted, lolcommits now apparently supports recording video (yielding a gif) 🙂 lolcommits →
This demo uses getUserMedia (formerly known as HTML5 <device>) to get data from a device camera, then copies it into HTML5 <canvas> in order to analyse the pixel data. It then peforms facial recognition in order to superimpose a marvellous magical moustache. Special Opera Developer Build required. Magical getUserMedia moustache → Opera getUserMedia Labs Build …