From a4a908e9802e6ec096709ada40b658774d759c71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jefklak Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 19:33:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] added nice readme wow --- README.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da08dad --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# Websocket-enabled HTML5 webcam + +## What's this? + +Nothing special, bits and pieces glued together: + +* HTML5 enabled webcam using something like the video tag and a bit of JS magic (see clientcam.html) +* websocket enabled streaming of the data found on the client back to the pure NodeJS server (server.js). +* the NodeJS server then streams the raw bytes back to other browser clients. (cam/index.html) + +That's it! + +## Why would you do something like this? + +This is an experiment to be able to use pure Javascript to stream data/images from my home laptop to "the internets". We had a puppy 6 months ago and I wanted to monitor his behaviour in his bench when not home: what's he doing? Is he sleeping? Is he okay? + +By the way, I found out the dog does nothing but sleep during the day. BOOORING :) All these lines of code, for nothing! + +## Where are your unit tests? + +O-ow. + +It was a spike, okay? (lol) + +## Your woofie, Let me show you them! + +![The little devil, at that time](http://i57.tinypic.com/33clu7b.png) + +Yes, the cat decided to join the peeping fest, but got bored quickly. As our cat usually does. *YAWN* \ No newline at end of file