Don Papp wrote:
> Your first jacket helped make me realize how much can be done with
> a few lines of text and buttons - especially if the wearable does a lot of
> 'embedded' style tasks. (like keeping a buffer of audio or video, reading
> GPS, etc)
Yes, I actually have more fun designing and using small
apps with the 4x20 text and buttons than normal display.
I did quite a lot that I haven't mentioned here with
this setup, all of the following with no twiddler or
HMD, just the jacket with integrated text LCD/buttons:
- system halt and reboot
- system statistics (disk usage etc)
- mp3 selection and playing (my fave feature)
- gps monitoring
- home appliance control
- remote monitoring over the net:
- aquarium condition monitoring
- home environmental monitoring
- weather monitoring
It's very nice and functional to be able to do all of
the above with no external peripherals, when driving,
walking down the street etc. Also, I now have a credit
card sized IR remote control. When the wearable is
not worn it becomes an appliance that I can control
from across the room. I could easily adapt all of the
above to speech synth and recognition if I had an
audio system that worked properly. That will be in
my next gen wearable, or this one if I can get the
MediaGX to do speech recognition (I haven't given
up on that so easily).
I am redesigning all of this stuff from the ground
up and making it clean enough to share with you
folks along with hardware build specs. I am hoping
that some of you will try the LCD and code. We can
do real-time chats on the text LCD with just the
twiddler. I also want to set something up so we
can locate eachother (similar to ICQ but only for
wear-hards and targetted for the text LCD).It would
also be cool to try some data pushing (GPS etc)
among multiple participants. Perhaps one day our
wearables will have conversations among eachother
independent of us! I hope thay say nice things
about us. LOL
Cheers,
Doug
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