- Wearable Mac Project Plan
- Some how the project components have been falling into place, and I decided a plan would help immencly so here it is.
- Get wallstreet to work
- Whats needed
- Power Brick- arrived
- Motherboard- replaced
- Processor card
See if it works
- Upgrade
- Powerlogix Card
- More RAM
- Card from newer system
Get I/O devices
- Input
- Keyer
- ACK Revision 1
- ACK Revision 2- in progress, to be based on unmodified Apple Keytboard electronics with several matrices
- ACK Revision 3- planning, to be based on Keywarrior IC
- Video
- recent consideration, firewire video camera
- Need to research models
- Output
- Display
- Research Models- decided on Canon GT-270, Glasstron A-35/A-55, Eye Treks, or VGA i-glasses.
- Plan to buy Canon GT-270s by December 4th (not definate)
- Considering a hardware hack
- Monocular conversion
- Battery Hack
- Covert Hack
Power systems
- Batteries
- Internal
- Buy more wallstreet Batteries
- Modify other laptop batteries
- buy kanga batteries (same electricaly)
- Make cage for kanga batrteries
- wire cage to internal contacts
- External
- Buy electrofuel batteries
- Use sealed lead acid
- Make a custom pack
- Find cells
- Make them match external specs
- Make charging unit
- Use Camcorder batteries to match external specs
- Video Game Consel Battery options/li>
- Adaptors
- AC converter
- Extra power brick
- Make a spare AC adaptor
- DC Converters
- Casing
- Metapad idea
- Network of parts
- Carry in a vest
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- AIO
- One central case
- Web of I/O devices
- Creation of an central cable
These are what I feel are my options, but I'm looking to use a Wallstreet board with S-video out with a powerlogix g4 upgarde maxed out with RAM, all powered by Kanga Batteries in a custom cage. For the keyer I'd like the one based on the Keywarrior IC chip. I also hope to use a firewire video camera mounted on a covert canon display (idealy monocular) or simply the unmodified display. For the casing I prefer the metapad idea (IBM hit on something there) since it is a much more user friendly idea, that and the eVest looks cool.
More likely IÕll be using a Mostly stock Wallstreet with a 66 MHz bus and 256 Megs of RAM, a custom built keyer and possibly some form of AV input to use with a 802.11b NIC
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