Raspberry Pi glasses and the rise of DIY wearables

Summary: Can DIY and Kickstarter projects save wearables from being the gadgets that not even the geeks will wear?

By Steve Ranger | May 8, 2014 -- 09:18 GMT (14:48 IST)

We've seen Raspberry Pi smartphones and tablets, now here comes the Raspberry Pi version of Google's Glass headset.
The Raspberry Pi blog has highlighted a DIY headset that can be powered by the diminutive computer, noting that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to add voice control or a camera, to bring it up to the same level of sophistication as the Google headset.

Raspberry Pi : Vital statistics

Broadcom BCM 2835 chipset
ARM1176JZFS chip with a floating point co-processor, running at 700MHz
Videocore IV GPU, capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s
Ships with OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries
HDMI out
Model B: 512MB of memory, two USB ports and a 10/100 BaseT Ethernet port
Model A: 256MB of memory, one USB port

The 'DIY glass' was built by electronics company Adafruit with video glasses that cost around $100, while the 3D-printed parts of the frame are a free download on Thingiverse. This display uses composite video to connect to the Raspberry Pi — which itself costs about $40.

Raspberry Pi glasses and the rise of DIY wearables

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