wraggster
September 28th, 2012, 22:53
http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/pi.jpg
The Hoboken hackerspace, MakerBar, recently hosted a very special guest – [Rob Bishop] from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Wanting to impress [Rob], [Zach] and a few others from MakerBar put together a wearable computer based on the Raspberry Pi (http://blog.makerbar.com/?p=254) in just a few hours.
Putting a Raspi, small Bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo, and a USB charger equipped with lithium-ion battery wasn’t that hard. The tricky part was finding a wearable display. Luckily, [Zach] had a pair of MyVu Crystal video glasses lying around and after a tricky bit of dissassembly, the folks at MakerBar had a completely wearable computer.
Apart from the RCA cable connecting the Raspi to the glasses, the project is completely wireless; with a small webcam also mounted to the display, the Pi in the Face could easily be a platform for figuring out what to do with Google Glass (http://hackaday.com/2012/04/11/diy-project-glass-clone-looks-almost-too-good-to-be-true/).
[Zach] said the entire setup could be reconstructed for about $100, a fair price for being turned in to [Locutus] of Borg
http://hackaday.com/2012/09/28/wearable-raspberry-pi-turns-you-into-the-borg/
The Hoboken hackerspace, MakerBar, recently hosted a very special guest – [Rob Bishop] from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Wanting to impress [Rob], [Zach] and a few others from MakerBar put together a wearable computer based on the Raspberry Pi (http://blog.makerbar.com/?p=254) in just a few hours.
Putting a Raspi, small Bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo, and a USB charger equipped with lithium-ion battery wasn’t that hard. The tricky part was finding a wearable display. Luckily, [Zach] had a pair of MyVu Crystal video glasses lying around and after a tricky bit of dissassembly, the folks at MakerBar had a completely wearable computer.
Apart from the RCA cable connecting the Raspi to the glasses, the project is completely wireless; with a small webcam also mounted to the display, the Pi in the Face could easily be a platform for figuring out what to do with Google Glass (http://hackaday.com/2012/04/11/diy-project-glass-clone-looks-almost-too-good-to-be-true/).
[Zach] said the entire setup could be reconstructed for about $100, a fair price for being turned in to [Locutus] of Borg
http://hackaday.com/2012/09/28/wearable-raspberry-pi-turns-you-into-the-borg/