Thursday 12 November 2020

Why wait for Apple or Facebook when you can build your own DIY smart glasses today?

Photo by Sam March

Smart glasses — depending on who you ask — are the future. But if you’d rather not wait for a company like Apple or Facebook to actually sell you a pair, you can do what product designer Sam March did and simply build your own smart glasses from scratch.

(March is no stranger to building his own wearable tech, as his DIY smartwatch from last year shows.)

Much like the smartwatch build, March has fully documented every step of the process he took in creating the glasses, which feature a connected app and use integrated LEDs to indicate walking directions to a specified location.

Photo by Sam March

If you do want to build your own pair, it will take a fair amount of technical skill. March’s process involves machining...

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source https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/11/12/21562356/diy-open-source-smart-glasses-directions-navigation-sam-march

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