I have already figured out the pinout of the camera and soldered the wires to a USB connector. It works fine, with one caveat. If I connect it to a MacBook running in clamshell mode, the MacBook would not enable it, since it thinks it's a built-in camera, which of course makes sense.
Now, my question is, is there any way around it? I can think of two possible options:
# Change the USB descriptor of the camera, which I doubt is possible. But this would be a universal solution.
# Change the behavior on the macOS side not to disable the camera when the lid is closed. I did some preliminary search and didn't find any answers.
So I figured I'd ask this community and see if anyone has a good idea. Thanks.