Wear Hacks and Projects pages

It became clear during the wiki transition that I had a number of “get 'em on the field” hacks in a variety of formats and locations as well as other wearable related pages and I needed to gather them up.

As I clean up my site, this is where they will all be listed. For now it is a growing list of links to where they currently reside.

1997

: wire chorder
Protoype keygrip that then became a working chorder. Photos show concept model and what it actually became as well as the version of Herbert it was used with.

1998

: Small Leather Chorder Pattern
Scans of the parts for a leather chorder that was sold to an engineer at JPL in 1998.

2000

: Linux kernel chording keyboard modification
A project initialy coded by Jinnah Hosein which I then modified for later kernels. It has been superseeded by the Spiffchorder.
: Charmit Wearable Kit
A local copy of the Charmed Technology site which sold the Charmit kit. This was a commercial open source wearable that Charmed sold from 2000 - 2004. I was hired by Charmed in 1999 to design and build a wearable that could be built and used by hobbyists and those looking to explore the field. This is the product that came out of that endeavor.
TextConfig file for the M1: For using the QVGA M1 display in text modes I generated these TextConfig lines.
: Battery Clips for mini-banana type batteries
Quick clips for sony type camcorder batteries.

2001

: Phonerest keyboard
A handheld chorder built on a plastic phonerest (the kind of thing you stick on the back of a handset to let you hold the phone against your ear with your sholder).
: The CHORD project
The CHORD project was a design I submitted to Embedded Linux Journel's MZ104 “Hack Embedded Linux for Fun and Prizes” contest. It was a finalist and I won an MZ104 board and developers kit. This is my (minimal) documentation of that project.

2001

: charmerino
A few pictures compairing the charmit and the smaller charmerino case. I wore the charmerino for 5 years.

2004

: 1.8 inch Harddrive
3 pictures of the 1.8 inch 9.5mm high 20gig Hitachi HTC424020 drive.

Each picture also has a 2.5 inch 4 gig toshiba laptop drive and a 320 meg IBM microdrive for comparison.

: Speech input / Speech output Charmit
A few pictures of the Charmit and battery sleds put together for a V.A. project providing audio navigation. The rig was sent off to Conversay so they could install their speech input engine. These shots were for them.