Post : Wearable Raspberry Pi turns you into the Borg
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/09/28/wearable-raspberry-pi-turns-you-into-the-borg/
Posted : September 28, 2012 at 8:00 am
Author : Brian Benchoff
Tags : raspberry pi, Raspi, wearable, wearable computing
Categories : Raspberry Pi, wearable hacks

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The Hoboken hackerspace, MakerBar, recently hosted a very special guest - [Rob Bishop] from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Wanting to impress [Rob], [Zach] and a few others from MakerBar put together a wearable computer based on the Raspberry Pi (http://blog.makerbar.com/?p=254) in just a few hours.

Putting a Raspi, small Bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo, and a USB charger equipped with lithium-ion battery wasn't that hard. The tricky part was finding a wearable display. Luckily, [Zach] had a pair of MyVu Crystal video glasses lying around and after a tricky bit of dissassembly, the folks at MakerBar had a completely wearable computer.

Apart from the RCA cable connecting the Raspi to the glasses, the project is completely wireless; with a small webcam also mounted to the display, the Pi in the Face could easily be a platform for figuring out what to do with Google Glass (http://hackaday.com/2012/04/11/diy-project-glass-clone-looks-almost-too-good-to-be-true/) .

[Zach] said the entire setup could be reconstructed for about $100, a fair price for being turned in to [Locutus] of Borg

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