Poor Man's Google Glass (PMGG)

Author

• Joe Colburn (https://github.com/joetech) (http://www.joetech.com)

Thanks

• Karl Herrick for his guidance
• GMail for Python (https://github.com/charlierguo/gmail)

Hardware needed

• Vuzix iWear AV310 HMD (~$60-$100) - There are similar off-brands, but I used Vuzix
• Raspberry Pi Model B ($35)
• Raspberry Pi case ($12)
• Raspberry Pi Camera ($35)
• Sabrent USB audio card ($10)
• Audio Technica (or other cheap) microphone ($8)
• Tenda W311M (or other cheap) wireless N adapter ($10)
• Tactile button, 10k resistor, wires (~$1)

Installation

• Grab the files: git clone git://github.com/joetech/pmgg.git
• From inside your new pmgg directory grab the gmail api: git clone git://github.com/charlierguo/gmail.git
• Still in your pmgg directory, create a "photos" directory mkdir photos
• Update credentials files with your info (to be named later)
• Follow hardware instructions at (URL forthcoming)

Features

• Check email
• Send and receive tweets
• Get Facebook updates
• Take a photo
• Share a photo
• Get weather updates (coming)

Basic usage

To start, simply run go.sh.

./go.sh

Roadmap

• Clean up the interface a bit
• More documentation
• Facebook/Gmail/Twitter notifications area
• Script to kill image preview, snap the image and restart the preview
• Read an email
• Update to Facebook
• Actually send the tweet with option to review first
• Fix credential management
• More APIs! (now taking suggestions and pull requests)
• Ability to share photos with Facebook/Twitter/Email
• Ability to review photos
• Capture video
• Share video with Vine/Facebook/Twitter
• Learn more Python and clean up this code

Copyright

• Copyright (c) 2013 Joe Colburn

See LICENSE for details.