the demo was exactly what i expected when i've read the title
a rare pleasure from a bygone era..
Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
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Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#12Nice! I have one question though: _why?_
Why not?
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#13Some background: a little while ago I built a library called "Checkboxland" at the Recurse Center for rendering stuff into a checkbox grid. I recently made an update that lets it render arbitrary images and video. The video feature supports HTML MediaStream, which is what powers the webcam demo.
I was there for this! I actually use this as an example of a perfect mini-batch project to anyone who's skeptical of what they can get done in a week.
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#14Oh wow. My hat is off for you. Don't bother with the why's! Doing this for fun should be a good enough reason!
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#15The latency on this is really low, meaning good! Well done!
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#16Nice! I have one question though: _why?_
Did you see it working?
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#17Reminds me of: https://youtu.be/zh8MiNzKkiA
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#18No repo? Curious on a high level how it works, averages nearby pixels or something, or just makes the video really low resolution and each large block is a checkbox?
Would think title should say "webcam video output" or something
There is the minified demo.js
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#19This is great! It would be better if it dithered though.
Re: Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
#20Hah, this is like a video with contentEditable = true