ASCII-Webcam

Not much there, seems more like a promo for the YouTube video which is also not much... It's just an OpenCV Python script (~40 lines) that converts a grayscale image to a set of ASCII characters.

I assume it uses libcaca?

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

I remember watching the matrix with mplayer and libcaca a decade or 2 ago :)

I built something similar back when jQuery plugins were still a thing (oh my), but video seems broken in nowaday's browsers unfortunately: https://github.com/m90/jquery.abc

Here's an old one but good one: Text Mode Quake. Unfortunately offline, so archived link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100327185735/http://webpages.mr...

This is pretty cool. You could check your security camera remotely over SSH!