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by prashnts 2465 days ago
Not sure what’s the CCK. Is it one of the dongles they sell with HDMI, SD Reader, and USB?

I first got excited that it can connect to USB webcams — I have some modded webcams I use as microscope — would be super useful if I could interface it with a camera app. But it didn’t work, last I tried. Are you aware of some way to do that? :)
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biztos 2464 days ago
I believe they're talking about the "Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter."[0]. I have one of these and so far I have only used it to plug into my DAC[1] so I can use Apple Music on an old iPhone with a real HiFi, but I think this has been the preferred way to connect to multimedia stuff for a while.

A long time ago on an iPad now far far away, I had the cordless little SD card reader, but the iPad itself wasn't much use for editing RAW photos in that generation.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2/lightning-to-usb-3-...

[1]: https://www.schiit.com/products/fulla-1

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radnor 2465 days ago
I haven't heard of any webcams that work in iOS via the CCK - sorry!

I'm not too familiar with how it all works, but I imagine it has a lot to do with the individual apps that are running to be able to read/write to the USB port.

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prashnts 2465 days ago
Seems like it, thanks anyway! Maybe now that there’s USBKit (although not sure if it’s MacOS only), one might be able to work out a camera driver implementation. Yay, weekend project!
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layoutIfNeeded 2464 days ago
USBDriverKit is macOS only.
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