WebRTC Mad Science

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Builds a browser BitTorrent client that actually works end to end turning browsers into peers and proving WebTorrent: BitTorrent over WebRTC is feasible. Creates torrents in-browser from drag and drop, uses browserify plus a tracker and simple-peer for signaling, and demonstrates a full‑mesh collaborative whiteboard that shares images by torrent hash and streams video into a page with MediaSource based progressive playback. Hybrid Node client also talks to TCP BitTorrent and pipes to VLC, demo mostly works with minor bugs and limited scaling.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 12:27build a real-time whiteboard
3. 23:12add the drag drop module
4. 24:01create a web torrent client
5. 24:23convert the buffer of the image file into an actual image tag

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