Google Glass? How About This Home-brew Solution?

[Codeninja] has been sending us some great hacks over the years, and we’ve just learned that his attention has been on building wearable computers lately! He’s currently on his third iteration of a Google Glass-like prototype, which features a motorized element which allows for the retraction of the screen.

There’s not too much info on his blog about them, but we do know he’s using a Raspberry Pi, a few small servos, and a pico LCD screen. Most of the frame is 3D printed, and it also features a hidden camera, accelerometers, and a few environmental sensors.

He’s uploaded an animated gif of the mechanism that moves the display away from his eye, and it looks straight out of some science fiction movie — check it out after break!

plissmover2His first foray into wearable computers was back in 2005, when he made a real-life Tron game. We’re surprised we haven’t covered it before!

We’re excited to see his next prototype which he plans on making much smaller, sleeker, and sexier. We believe him too — after all, he did bring us the RFID Terminator Gun years ago!

22 thoughts on “Google Glass? How About This Home-brew Solution?

  1. We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

  2. why do you guys keep adding things to articles?
    nobody said it was like google glass – and thats because it isn’t!

    I guess if you say google glass enough times you get some hits and revenue from search engines results or something? pathetic.

    1. We wrote the summary of the article — we chose to include the likeness to Google Glass, we’re not “adding” anything to the article. They’re both wearable computers, mounted on glasses. One is see-through, one is not. They’re still quite similar.

      Would you prefer we compared it to the Oculus rift? No, that would be silly.

    1. I don’t think I understand the difference… Either way, you’re only able to see when the display is turned on, and you’ll have a display the exact size of… The display. One limits that to a rather small size, but is transparent, the other gives you a larger size (and I suppose it could be configured to only turn on specific areas of the screen), but that display isn’t transparent when displaying information (again, it could easily have transparent areaa), AND you have to wear special contact?? Meh.

      If I’m missing something, please fill me in. This area of research is very interesting to me.

  3. I think the screen would look better if it swung out to the side, rather than upwards. As if it was “opening”. Just have it swing left an inch or two so it’s out of the wearer’s sight. For the few occasions where you’d want to use your weak fleshy eye to look.

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