Homemade Heads Up Display For Bicycling?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday June 1, 2004 @07:30AM from the right-in-front-of-your-eyes dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I am a geek that bicycles in an urban center. After seeing this commercial product, I was interested in the possibility of building a homebrew HUD for a bicycle helmet. I searched the usual places and couldn't find much so I thought I'd ask the readers of Slashdot. A HUD that displays speed, distance, and cadence seems very feasible as many bike computers collect that data. A great longshot would be a range-finder that told you the distance to the object you were turned toward, but I'm not crossing my fingers for that. So what components would be needed to make such a cool device?"

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Xybernaut by AEther141 · 2004-06-01 07:45 · Score: 2, Informative

Xybernaut sell all sorts of wearable computer gubbins. The MIT Wearables Lab is a fantastic resource for wearable computing.
This guy used to be famous by Marxist+Hacker+42 · 2004-06-01 07:45 · Score: 4, Informative

The Guy With The Bike did this back in the 1980s and early 1990s. I believe all of his tech is listed here. About the only thing I think you could add to his design, that has been invented since he gave up this project in favor of an ocean-going mini-trimeran, is a Laser Range Finder.

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