For practitioners, Google Glass is attractive. It is a new way to obtain information, compared to Google Glass's shape, interaction, this way of value may be more important, thereby caught many people discussing interest of.
However, the price of Google Glass is too high, it is too difficult to get it, even if the developer, the designer envisages many products around the intelligent glasses, but eventually lacks actual verification, thus turning into an air, very unfortunately.
Liu Yi Lin, Design Director of Shanghai Frog Design, often seen the designer of the designer, but it is hard to play Google Glass opportunities. As a result, in the last half of the year, he used the amateur time to try to design an open, low-cost smart glasses platform, and finally benefit each person who is interested in smart glasses - in this platform, they can freely verify their own Idea, no restrictions without Google Glass.
Now, this project called Open Smart Glass approximates the release of an end. On the phone, he said, "In fact, I still have a lot of hardware ideas. This is the highest completion of the completion. At present, the project has reached 97%, the remaining 3% is only some small flaws, it is expected to be two weeks later It can be released. "He also said that the cost of Open Smart Glasses is only one tenth of Google Glass.
In other words, the production cost of Open Smart Glass is about a thousand yuan, apparently acceptable than Google Glass.
Open smart galss prototype, bigger than Google Glass
Liu Yulin said that "Google Glass hardware design has reached the peak, when dismantling the product, you can find that the radius of the components inside, there is no waste of the space, small to the small. So, I don't think if we don't Then pursue hardware technology, can make a hardware platform like Arduino, Raspberry Pivot, make people try more things. "
So he combined with his own expertise, and the hardware of the hardware that has accumulated over the years. "After 5 versions of shell design and 3 versions of hardware programs, more than 4 months of trial, finally more perfect than expected Design. "- If the weight is more than the weight, this structure may be between 1.5 times to 2 times, but it is like the industry often says MVP (minimum available prototype), it can provide Google Glass core features.
For now, Open Smart Glass has implemented the following features:
- Support optical projection images to eyes;
- Support on mounting in their original glasses;
- Support Bluetooth headset to keep other external voice devices;
- Support Bluetooth mouse, touchpad;
- Support Wi-Fi;
- Supports built-in microphone voice control;
- Support for native android app;
- Support HTML5 prototype;
- Automatic sleep (imperfect);
- Support camera (imperfect);
- Support wireless charging (not perfect);
- Support the built-in touchpad for touch operation (imperfect);
Open Smart Glass temporarily does not support gravity sensing, light sensing, voice calls, and SMS.
Liu Yi Lin also met the list of components necessary for smart glasses. When the project is online, he will provide a more specific list, and how to make smart glasses for your reference.
- Polarized cube prism x1;
- 30 mm in diameter is 80 mm convex lens x 2;
- Single-graphic display x 1;
- Support the minimum android development version of the AV interface;
- 50 mm x 30 mm USB touchpad x 1;
- 800 mAh high performance lithium battery x 1;
- Wireless charging receiving module x 1;
- 3D photosensitive resin printing housing x1.
There is no particular component model in this, which is in neutrality. The specific model is very easy to be unclear by some even "neutral", it is considered advertising, a good thing. It was very disgusting by a group of flies and lost.
In the middle of the spot, Liu Yi Lin said that the full version of Open Smart Glass cost is 1280 yuan, some of which can use a more cheap alternative, the minimum cost can be RMB 960.
Also, it is worth mentioning that Open Smart Glass's operating system is Android, not Android WEAR - the latter is stricter in hardware, it is difficult to run on low cost hardware.
Retrospecting the development of open source hardware, the reason why "Raspberry Pie" is welcome, it is very important to provide a full-featured platform while maintaining low prices, facilitating people to verify their own ideas. So, if someone provides smart glasses like "Raspberry Pie"? Liu Yuli hopes to gradually improve the design of Smart Open Glass by opening the design of smart glasses.
The website, public account, and simple communication platform will then be established to communicate with the same work, and everyone is welcome to communicate freely through any social network. I will also release the foundation design idea on the website, some design source files. And retain accountability for commercial development using these contents.
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