I am new to both Lemmy and the fediverse. Today is my second day using Memmy. It feels similar enough to Narwhal, which I was using for Reddit. I have not had any glaring “ooh, I don’t like this at all” moments. Which is a big deal because I’m a user interface engineer. UI stuff bothers me all the damn time.
I’m in the process of trying something like this. The cameras I bought have serial ports and firmware packages that can be reverse engineered. That’s where I’m currently at; just having the knowledge that it’s possible. I haven’t reverse engineered anything before, so if my attempts don’t work my backup plan is to harvest the the raw components and cobble together my own firmware on a different MCU.