Wearables Hardware and Software

Cost

• A brief note on cost

Hardware (see also the commercial wearables sites below)

• Making your own: Lizzy, the MIT wearable computer design
• Fabric for Wearable Computing by Rehmi Post, Emily Cooper, and Maggie Orth.
• The Display List (available and prototypes)
• Output devices: more displays, speech, sound, etc.
• Input devices: keyboards, cameras, GPS, etc.
• Analog I/O boards
• PC104 Boards (for custom building a system)
• Wireless networks and communications (and, correspondingly, position)
• Energy and batteries
• Spec for HackMan 0.4, an S-MOS card based wearable computer

Software

Linux

• A beta version of X11R6 (XFree 3.1.2) for Private Eye displays (by Ben Walter)
• X and console Linux driver for Twiddler 1.01 (by Jeff Levine-tarred and gzipped-with thanks to Mark Eichin)
• Twiddler driver for the USR Pilot (with instructions for hooking it up)
• A beta version of sierra-mob and sierra-state. Linux utilities to perform diagnostics and change between different modes of the Sierra Wireless PoquetPlus 210 modem (CDPD / Analog Cellular / normal modem in one). Sierra-mob allows such information as cell site number, signal strength, etc to be determined. Also allows initial setting of IP address in the modem.
• Wavelan wireless ethernet driver
• WA4DSY's 56kbps RF modem (please send a note to N1NLF for more conversation on this item)
• Mobile IP announcement
• MIT Linux ftp/archive site
• Why Linux?
• LOCUST Locator Software
• GPS driver perl script
• Emacspeak (speech output for emacs by T.V. Raman)
• DECtalk text-to-speech

Windows 95/NT

• Choosing an OS?
• VenturCom enables Windows NT - and now, Windows CE - for embedded and real-time applications.
  Imagine running Windows without a VGA card!
• Audio Capture Under Win32

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