rabid.audio

Documenting my work at the intersection of technology and music.

Wearable Computing

Published: 29 Nov 2010

Note

This is an old post or draft which was migrated from my old blog. It may have broken links, and it definitely has questionable opinions. Consume at your own risk.

So here is another mot-music related post, but it has been 2 months with nothing worth mentioning, so I might as well post something.

My next project is a wearable computer like those made popular by Steve Mann and others. While I am ashamed to admit where the inspiration came from, the more I thought about it, the more awesome it sounded.

I'm starting with a broken Acer Aspire netbook. I found a neat hand-held keyboard from this site that sells really cool shit from China for dirt cheap.

Now, I'm working on acquiring a MyVu Headset I can modify into a transparent HMD.

I made a TODO list for the project. Most of it is silly, unreasonable, etc., but some of it is actually not too difficult, including an infrared camera for night-vision.