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DIY Wearable Pi With Near-Eye Video Glasses

Posted by timothy on from the up-close-and-personal dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    yeah and get rid of all those people walking around with radios tied to cameras too.

  2. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't always tolerate glassholes, but when I do, I prefer open glassholes.

  3. Very low-cost by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

    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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    1. Re:Very low-cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Glass is only 640x360, so it isn't a bad start for a tenth of the cost.

    2. Re:Very low-cost by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

      Google Glass is 640x360? Somehow I expected much more from them.

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    3. Re:Very low-cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You're not the only one. A friend of mine that loves google enough to give them his firstborn was ga-ga over google glass.

      He finally got to try one. Reality shattered. Augmented reality? Hardly. Quality display? Only if it were 1990. Useful? No. Priced right? Only if you removed two zeroes. He was crushed.

      He'll still buy anything else that says "google" on it, though, and give google any personal info they'd ever like to sell, because they're "open". LOL. The bad buy at the end of the movie Se7en was open about what he was doing, as well.

  4. It's just a matter of time... by MindPrison · · Score: 2

    ...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!).

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    1. Re:It's just a matter of time... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Exploding glasses? Who designed this, the same idiot that designed the computers for the bridge of the Enterprise?

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  5. OK Pi: by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 2

    pi-goggles $ apt-get photo-app
    pi-goggles $ photo-app -c "Take photo of approaching fist" -s "facebook.com" -a "Blow, Joseph"

    *** CRUNCH! ***

  6. thanks by kuzeyozel · · Score: 1

    thank you for sharing...

  7. What are the glasses? by BobMcD · · Score: 1

    I'm actually more interested in the glasses than the 3D hack-job...

    The site is down - anyone recognize them?

  8. I Pi with my little eye by xednieht · · Score: 1

    Pretty cool going to try it.

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  9. That VGA cable it's using... by Roxoff · · Score: 1

    ... doesn't look -in any way- inconvenient.

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    1. Re:That VGA cable it's using... by Matt_Bennett · · Score: 1

      This doesn't use the VGA output from the Raspberry Pi- it uses the composite video output. 75 ohm coax isn't necessarily thin, but for short distances and the type of video they are talking about, even audio cables may be "good enough." As in "good enough" to get the resolution you would expect from composite video.

    2. Re:That VGA cable it's using... by Lumpy · · Score: 1

      The Pi has a VGA out? What the hell have I been buying that only has HDMI and composite?

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  10. no by Charliemopps · · Score: 1

    He had me until he said "It's easy to get Pi in your eye with..." and I just turned the video off.

  11. It may be an excess of caution.... by westlake · · Score: 1

    .... 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.

    1. Re:It may be an excess of caution.... by BobMcD · · Score: 1

      Here let me save you the time - "Unless they're sold to you by a licensed Ophthalmologist at five times the normal price, they are bad for your eyes."

      Never ask the salesman what you should buy.

    2. Re:It may be an excess of caution.... by Sarten-X · · Score: 2

      Ask and ye shall receive.

      TL;DR: There are risks associated with all HUDs, but the likelihood of developing problems stems from having the eyes compete. A monocular display (or well-aligned binocular) should be fine, as long as the display is sufficiently different from the background view that the brain knows it's seeing something different.

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    3. Re:It may be an excess of caution.... by internerdj · · Score: 1

      Head mounted displays are used pretty regularly in military aviation. Issues typically involve either occlusion of field of view (which this project seems to utterly fail at) and additional weight putting strain on the vertebrae in the neck. The other thing about this is the use of personal viewing display which probably doesn't have a focal point of near infinity, which means you have to refocus your eyes between the real world and the displayed information. This looks like a really cool DIY project but it isn't a serious HMD.

    4. Re:It may be an excess of caution.... by dstone · · Score: 1

      TL;DR: "the risk of wearing Glass appears to be low", according to a Eli Peli, who has been "con$ulting with the Glass team for nearly two years."

    5. Re:It may be an excess of caution.... by westlake · · Score: 1

      Head mounted displays are used pretty regularly in military aviation.

      For young adults in their physical prime and entering an inherently high risk profession. Tech with an almost unlimited budget for research and development.

  12. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean "Pi holes".

    Hmmm, pi.

  13. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong. The objections to glass are that there's a camera on them with no indication they're recording. I didn't watch the video (did we as a society just collectively say "fuck it, why type something out when you can talk into a camera?") but it doesn't look like there's a camera on there.

    The privacy concerns are one thing. 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.

    If anything, you should be cheering this on: this is a competitor to google glass without the privacy issues.

  14. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't mind people using HMDs.

    I mind people using HMDs with cameras attached that don't tell me that they're recording me.

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  15. Re:Cool by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Building it is part of the fun!

    Hand in your geek card on your way out...

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  16. In your face. by westlake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:In your face. by houstonbofh · · Score: 1

      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.

      Yeah... Smart phone users piss me off too... Here is an idea. Be annoyed with the asshole, not the tool the asshole uses. Even with this, the user can still look you in the eye and concentrate. Depth perception is totally screwed, so catch is probably out, however.

  17. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by amxcoder · · Score: 1

    Actually this will open up the new phrase "PI-holes" :)

  18. Re:Elizabeth Warren Is Rewriting History by whistlingtony · · Score: 1

    Remember folks, if you can't argue the facts, attack the person. Ad Hominem Attacks, for the win!

  19. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    It's not that easy to hide the phone. Having glasses on your head you can claim that you're not recording. Holding a cellphone in front of you, no such luck.

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  20. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by houstonbofh · · Score: 1

    You realize that you have already lost this battle a long time ago, right?

    http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UT...

  21. Re:Just what we need - more glassholes by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    What battle? I didn't even know I've started fighting.

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  22. Another similar project by katique · · Score: 1

    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...