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Teens Make a Wearable WebCam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the isn't-that-amusing dept.

boinger writes "Wired is reporting about some high school kid who made a wearable PC with webcam as a school project. The designed was blessed by MIT, and it brodcasts the captured images via wireless LAN which are then published to a web site. It runs Linux, too, but sadly runs Win98 as well." Imagine what this will do for those obnoxious "Worlds Funniest" TV shows that churn my stomach as I dive for the remote.

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  1. Answering Questions by msassak · · Score: 3

    Ok, so I am the kid mentioned in the Wired Article.

    Now about those questions.

    Cost; approximately $5800. Yeah, i know, it's steep, and a wearable can be made for much less. But what can i say? Wireless LAN equipment is
    !?#@*ing expensive.

    The amount of RAM was a misquote. It really has 128MB. Yes, windows can only cache the first 64MB, but Linux works beautifully with all the supported hardware.

    This leads me to the OS choice(s).

    It was with a heavy heart, (and not a small number of expletives) that we decided to run Linux and Win98. The original plan was Linux only, but when confronted with what we wanted to do, and the hardware needed to do it, we were forced to run 98 also. Linux just did not have the drivers necessary for all our hardware. Yet.
    But you should all be please to know that bit by bit, as Linux support grows, we will completely phase microsoft out of the picture altogether.

    Finally, please, if any of you HAVE run a web cam off a linux box, please, do email. Any other questions, comments, suggestions, whatever, just send 'em my way.

    Mike Sassak