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Raspberry Pi as a Webcam Server
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Shows how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a webcam server that streams a USB camera over the network, often passed on as a starting point.
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In their words
(using this tutorial and other help I found online)
Aldo on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com, Mar 2015. CC BY-SA.