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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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zelo ◴[25 Aug 24 21:39 UTC] No.41351699[source]▶
I'm working on android app that exposes camera stack trough http/websocket API.

The idea is that phones have very nice cameras and lot of media processing power and such API could enable hackers to easily incorporate capable camera stack in to their projects without android development experience in any language they like.

There are millions of working phones in the drawers battery backed, with plenty of computing power, nice cameras, hardware acceleration, good connectivity (WiFi, ethernet over usb), that could get new purpose.

Previously I was working on automated photogrammetry rig and this is perfect use case for that.

If you see other use case for such API share your ideas.

If you think that's cool idea to develop and would like to help write me at hn@zelo.pl

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1. nullderef ◴[26 Aug 24 08:52 UTC] No.41355216[source]▶
How is it different from DroidCam?
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2. zelo ◴[26 Aug 24 15:24 UTC] No.41358052[source]▶
I checked droidcam before and AFAIK it solves the problem of using adnroid device as webcam using server and client apps.

I want to expose low level camera capabilities like manual focus controll, capturing raw images, iso, etc. DroidCam exposes only subset of functionality I need.

In short i want it to be more like programmable controlled digital camera than webcam.

BTW scrcpy offers similar features trough adb to DroidCam.