Building a camera driver from scratch - PS3 Eye Camera on Mac Silicon

I wrote a blog post about the project: building a camera driver from scratch.

Steps to run the project

Clone the repo

 git clone https://github.com/madalintat/PS3Eye-Driver-MacOS-Silicon.git

Enter the repo

cd PS3Eye-Driver-MacOS-Silicon

Compile the driver

gcc -o ps3eye_test ps3eye_test.c -I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/libusb/1.0.27/include/libusb-1.0 -L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/libusb/1.0.27/lib -lusb-1.0

Run the driver

./ps3eye_test

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Success: Prints device info, "Camera initialized...", and "Camera test successful!" then exits cleanly.

Failure: Prints an error message at any step (e.g., device not found, permission denied) and exits with return 1.

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Disclaimer: the driver creates the connection between the PS3 Eye camera and the Macbook device. Capturing video is a different job, but it's part of my upcoming project. Follow my website for updates.