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BUILD IDEA: Wrist Mounted Computer

RovertScott
RovertScott over 11 years ago

There are so many tablets in the market, yet I have not found one that was practical for my needs.

I want something with the convenience and availability as looking down at your watch, with the most essentail of apps.

 

Hence I was looking at the Wearable Wrist Mounted PC... except for the fact that aside from Sci-Fi, none really exist in the consumer market.

 

Wrist Mounted Computer

1. A sleek and elegent Audrino or Rasberry Pi (not sure which is better for the task) that can be strapped to your wrist.

2. Touch LCD Screen with stylus.

3. Programmable Quick Luanch App Buttons.

4. Navigation Buttons / wheels for when in situations that would make the touch screen inconvenient.

5. Wi-Fi capable for checking Email and/or browsing the web.

6. 32GB of onboard memory that can be acessed via USB interface.

7. The ability to read any and all stored documents or files.

8. Intigrated Analog Timepiece (because it is functional even when the screen is in power save mode and it makes it stylish)

 

Great for mechanics, engineers, and anyone who hates dropping their iPhone or tablet.

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  • colecago
    colecago over 11 years ago

    I think you'd be better off integrating an android phone to do that, it would be smaller than you will probably get with the Pi/Screen/Buttons/Battery

    Here is a Pi example

    http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/06/raspberry-pi-used-to-build-working-fallout-pipboy/

     

    Here is an Android Phone/Arduino example

    http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/03/homemade-pip-boy-3000-does-almost-everything/

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  • RovertScott
    RovertScott over 11 years ago in reply to colecago

    Thanks! I also found an old HP iPAQ PDA in my electronics bin and it still works! I wonder if that could be adapted to the build, of course I would need a way to boot LINUX or android on it and it would need a custom device controller interface.

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  • ckraft
    ckraft over 11 years ago in reply to RovertScott

    I know some models of the iPAQ could run Linux at one point, not sure anymore.

     

    If you can find an Android phone that's probably your best bet. Then you can build a interface module using the ADK or something like the IOIO to give external input into the Android phone. Of course then you have to create, or find, the software to drive the whole thing.

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  • benheck
    benheck over 11 years ago

    I third the idea of old Android phone.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to benheck

    What Android would you recommend?

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  • david98xp
    david98xp over 10 years ago

    Get a teensy 3.1. They're superfast with tft's and re ARM based.

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  • royston02
    royston02 over 10 years ago

    Apple has releaseda new smart watch which works like an IPhone!

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to david98xp

    So it wouldn't matter much what model Android phone I buy to do this? I'm looking at a Galaxy SII.

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  • kidiccurus
    kidiccurus over 10 years ago in reply to benheck

    I forth like that idea.

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