>hi, i´m Alvaro Castro Nieny from Chile,i work in a cybercafe and i
Well, hello to you too! Nice to have you here.
>of get one (or build it), please (and i mean it), send me more
>information on how can i get the parts from here and how much money
>that
>it cost to have one (aprox. an idea), maybe lizzy it´s a good idea but i
>don´t know how to order from here, by the way i´m a software expert
>to, but no harware.
Well, since there are very few wearables for sale, the most obvious
way to get one is to make it yourself. As to cost, cost is highly
variable,
and depends on what you already have. It also depends on how good
a shopper you are.
The simplest way to make a wearable is to repackage off the shelf
technology in a case that can be worn. Many people on this list use
a PC architecture that was designed for embedded systems, called
PC104. It's the same as a standard PC computer, but it uses
different connectors, and is built more ruggedly.
Many others use a repackaged laptop computer. If you don't insist
on having the latest in technology, 486 laptops can be obtained very
cheaply, and most provide standard ports for serial / parallel / VGA.
Yet another option is to use a handheld computer, like the HP LX
series (miniature laptops) or the PalmPilot (tablet) type computers.
They are currently available for sale, all over the world, and at
reasonable prices. I intend to repackage my old HP95LX computer
as a wearable, which will end up being very small and light. But,
I have to reinvent its keyboard and possibly its display, in order to
make it work -- this one has no standard video-out port.
The MIT Lizzy is yet another option -- it is a built-from-scratch
comptuer, which was designed for use as a wearable. To this end
it uses very little power and, thanks to being an MIT project, has
reasonable support on the internet. But, you have to build it up
from discrete chips...at least last time I looked.
-- Chuck Knight
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