Image: ferdicildiz.github.io · Pocket+: control your DJI Osmo Pocket from your Mac
A Mac desk-camera app for the DJI Osmo Pocket
Claude probed the Pocket over USB and Bluetooth to build gimbal control, zoom and recording for macOS.
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- Reddit poster FerdiCiIdiz Source ↗
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On a Mac the DJI Osmo Pocket is just a plain USB webcam with no documented API. Claude wrote IOKit probes sending UVC requests to see which ones the camera answers, and found only zoom and pan/tilt respond, so the gimbal control was built on that. It also decoded DJI's DUML packets over Bluetooth to show battery and recording status.
Claude found that AVCaptureMovieFileOutput broke the camera format and moved recording to AVAssetWriter with Core Image, which enabled live LUTs. The maker notes Claude cannot see hardware, so every gimbal change was a loop of build, test and describe what happened.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Pocket+: a macOS app for controlling the DJI Osmo Pocket as a desk camera, built with Claude CodeReddit poster: FerdiCiIdizPosted
The maker's reply in r/ClaudeAI's showcase thread.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Pocket+: a macOS app for controlling the DJI Osmo Pocket as a desk camera, built with Claude Code (opens in a new tab)
- The project: ferdicildiz.github.io
Linked from the post.