@tmomas, for example, I just tried looking for the first two packages, and they're not available, I'm told. A complete Howto, which I think will fire up some imagination on 'playing' and learning as you did, would be great indeed. And thanks
Both packages are available.
opkg update
opkg install gphoto2
opkg install fswebcam
google for instructions for both, there is nothing really OpenWrt specific.
gphoto2 manual: http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/