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DIY Wearable Pi With Near-Eye Video Glasses
coop0030 (263345) writes "Noe & Pedro Ruiz at Adafruit have created a pair of open source near-eye video glasses combined with a Raspberry Pi. Their 3D Printed design turns a pair of 'private display glasses' into a "google glass"-like form factor. It easily clips to your prescription glasses, and can display any kind of device with Composite Video like a Raspberry Pi. They have a video demonstrating the glasses, a tutorial on how to build them, along with the 3d files required to print it out."
Just what we need - more glassholes
Just like goatse-man!
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2014/04/22/elizabeth-warren-glosses-over-native-american-controversy-in-new-book
"“Everyone on our mother’s side — aunts, uncles, and grandparents — talked openly about their Native American ancestry. My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents’ courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.”
This is ironic because, until the Boston Herald first broke the news in April 2012 that Harvard Law School had repeatedly promoted Warren as a Native American faculty member, Warren never once mentioned these stories of her upbringing in a single press interview, speech, class lecture or testimony at any point, ever, in her decades-long career. What's more, Warren was not listed as a minority on her transcript from George Washington University where she began her undergraduate education, nor did she list herself as a minority when applying to Rutgers University Law School in 1973.
In fact, it was not until she was in her 30s and focused on climbing the highly competitive ladder of law school academia that Warren apparently rediscovered her Native American heritage. It’s important to note that entrance and advancement in the law school profession is governed by the Association of American Law Schools, which requires registrants interested in teaching at law schools to fill out a questionnaire detailing their education, experience, bar passage and, yes, ethnicity. This information is then disseminated to law schools around the country that, as Warren surely knew, are always on the lookout to add to the diversity of their faculty.
A copy of Warren's questionnaire currently resides in the Association of American Law Schools archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. However, only Warren herself has the authority to release the complete copy of her questionnaire and to date, she has refused to do so. "
Ditrty detestable lying democrat scumbag politician.
But I repeat myself.
I get the whole idea, but frankly I'd start with something else than a 320x240 display with a composite video signal.
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...before you see Google Glasses copies with Android from China, it won't look like your average Google glasses - but it will resemble those spy-glasses (video recorders) you can purchase already on eBay. I have several of these toys myself, and I'm amazed how high quality they are (not the eye-wear itself, they reek of cheap plastic, but hey...they're cheap!).
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
pi-goggles $ apt-get photo-app
pi-goggles $ photo-app -c "Take photo of approaching fist" -s "facebook.com" -a "Blow, Joseph"
*** CRUNCH! ***
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza Pi.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
thank you for sharing...
somebody call john forsythe http://news.yahoo.com/video/holland-uk-scramble-jets-intercept-104910484.html
I'm actually more interested in the glasses than the 3D hack-job...
The site is down - anyone recognize them?
I'd be willing to by this kit for a reasonable price, but I'm not going to sit down and built it myself.
Pretty cool going to try it.
Hope is the currency of fools
... doesn't look -in any way- inconvenient.
"Is the Chief Priest an Offlian? Do dragons explode in the wood?"
He had me until he said "It's easy to get Pi in your eye with..." and I just turned the video off.
.... or simply that as I age I am more protective of my vision.
But I would really like to see devices like these reviewed by eye doctors and other perhaps other specialists before I commit to building or wearing them.
Why bother when you can buy Zoomies for 12$
that's cute, but what about the rest of the hardware and the tracking software?
The Pi is woefully underequipped and bulky for the purpose.
it'll be uncomfortable, big, clunky and will lack proper orientation detection, gps, 3g connectivity or wifi for that matter.
(and i'm not even on the subject of giving it a power supply).
then there is the matter of having to write the software to do
something useful
with it.
Another thing the Pi is underpowered for (voice commands? ha!)
If glass makes people look like androids, this would make you look like a malfunctioning borg unit.
the idea is cute, but ultimately terribly impractical.
If you're just objecting to someone having a video display on their face, then you're simply being a Luddite, and this isn't the place for you.
I object to having a conversation with someone who hasn't the courtesy to maintain eye contact and to focus on what is being said but rather with what is on screen.
The screen is "in my face" never just "on his face."
I object to tech that encourages its users to become more insular and self-absorbed. If that makes me a Luddite so be it.
A comedian, a raspberry pi enthusiast, and a 3d printing enthusiast?
Wow, Aziz is a total triple threat.
Run away from this place! - Morgan Freeman.
For those who are interested, there is another solution for DIY 'google glass'. Well, not glass, actually. The author calls it Raspberry Eye - a Borg-looking wearable computer based on RPi with 2.4" TFT LCD on a head strap mount http://hackaday.com/2014/04/20... and a submission on slashdot http://slashdot.org/submission...