Comments on: Goggle camera mod

By: mike b

mike b — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:21:39 +0000

Wtf. I read google too and was like how the heck is street view gonna work down the side of a mountain…

By: will d.

will d. — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:40:43 +0000

yeah i read that as google too, but i think i know why. those are goggles, not goggle. if this were a pants mod, you wouldn’t title it ‘pant mod’.

By: George

George — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:35:25 +0000

Google Ski view.

By: xMob

xMob — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:11:57 +0000

I did something similar 5 years ago. I took a standard miniature PCB camera and mounted it inside my goggles. Recording was done with a PVR-A1.

A video can be seen at http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8213385985340335478

By: Darwin Survivor

Darwin Survivor — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:40:28 +0000

The camera should only fog up if your face is warm enough to heat up the back side of lense. As for wind in the microphone, if he places the mic just behind the lense, there shouldn’t be much.

By: Hirudinea

Hirudinea — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:04:32 +0000

I read google instead of goggle too, I guess we have google blinders on, or should I say googles.

By: morris

morris — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:12:47 +0000

I just wonder how he keeps snow out and prevents it from fogging – within five minutes my goggles are full of snow (albiet usually from full frontal contact with the trail!).

By: richard

richard — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:08:48 +0000

google on the brain… i read it google too… lol… i thought they were doing something with the street view or something…

By: cyrozap

cyrozap — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:55:41 +0000

I read Google Camera mod, too. Maybe he can, with a netbook with cellular internet outputting the video to an HUD inside the goggles…

Think: Google… in your goggles…

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:06:21 +0000

How about make it measure the speed and display it realtime?

Combine it with the iphone laser beamer seen on hackaday and project the mph reading into the camera’s upper right(left?) corner!!

Now THAT would be a cool googgle gadget.

By: M4CGYV3R

M4CGYV3R — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:46:14 +0000

If it fogs anywhere near as much as my ski goggles do it will be rather useless. Maybe I just have a hot face.

By: HPIguy

HPIguy — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:39:35 +0000

Too bad he used such a crappy camera. I’ve owned both the OS ATC2k and the GoPro and the GoPro wins hands down.

By: emilio

emilio — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:54:33 +0000

hmmm the site is slooooowly loading… or not.

looks like a cool mod, and *nice* install!

i agree that there could be a better place to put the cam than in the lens. aside from possibly obscuring the user’s view, modifying the goggle’s lens will have compromised the safety rating. drilling holes in shatterproof plastic can introduce micro-fractures or weaken it along one axis – especially on a narrower section like the nose clearance cut in goggle lenses.

with the fabbing resources you have, consider something above the goggle’s lens for v.2. the same circuit enclosure and cable routing could be used, but the camera could be in a small waterproof box. with the right mounting the system could be added to goggles without modification and removed when you’re not using it.

good work!

By: Skyler Orlando

Skyler Orlando — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:36:29 +0000

I read Google Camera Mod as well. I was puzzled as to what camera Google came out with while I wasn’t looking. :)

However, this is missing something important: A micro-projector to display current temperature, wind speed, velocity, and so forth on the goggle lens.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:05:43 +0000

a cool mod would be one mounted in a sealed ball with a weight inside the bottom inside another ball of semi-viscus liquid. If calibrated correctly, it should allow the camera to give smoother video when the skier / adrenaline junkie hits minor bumps along the way.