This is a quick look at it. Basically, the webcam is on and takes an image all the time, then it pixelates it to only 8 x 8 pixels. This is the core bit.
It's then sent through to this which cuts the 8 x 8 pixel thing into the 64 individual cells of one colour each, it then reads the numerical value of each colour and sticks it down as a number between 0 and 256.
Then these numbers are packed up and whizzed over here to the lookup table which takes the number of between 0 and 256 for each of the cells and uses a lookup table to choose a word corresponding to that number. The 256 words are the first few paragraphs of Paul Auster's City Of Glass simply because it's the only book I have with me on holiday. Also it's pretty neat.
All I have to do now is figure out a way to recompose the image. So you'll see yourself as a series of words. Got a many-hour train journey tomorrow though so that should do it. Here are some more pictures of my last day of holiday too, see you at work:
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