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Glasstron PLM-A35 hacking

From: Jani PATOKALLIO <>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 20:22:35 +0900

Greetings!  I tried out the PLM-A35 monocular hack today, muchos kudos
to Clifford Leung for his detailed walkthrough as everything went
almost perfectly (just be careful with those tiny screws!).  This being
my first "real" wearable display though, a few questions...

1 -- Approximately how long does it take for the eyes to get used to
monocular displays?  Right now it's partly fascinating but also
partly annoying to watch my eyes swap back and forth out of their
own accord between the display and reality depending on what stands
out where...    

2 -- I'm still using the Glasstron frame, although I'll probably
transplant the display into sunglasses soon.  For now, how well does
that groovy insect-blue cover react to radical surgery with hacksaw
or soldering iron?

3 -- The Glasstron cable including stereo audio, I was thinking about
hacking it so that one channel would be mono output and one would
be mono input.  Unfortunately, it appears that the audio amplifier
in the battery pack mutes any incoming signal rather effectively...
but it should be possible to bypass the (crappy) amp entirely.  Opening
up the case, for the tri-stereo input jack I presume "7R" and "1L"
are right and left with "1G" being video, but the output cable
is trickier...  it seems that the top side of the circuit board handles
audio and the lower side video, but that still leaves orange, red,
brown, gray and thin black to choose from (the thick black is obviously
ground).  The circuit board doesn't look too complex, but I'm not a
microelectronics person...  any ideas?

Cheers,
-- 
Jani PATOKALLIO /  / +81 90 7722 3557
Sanpo Laboratory, Mechano-Informatics Dept., University of Tokyo
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