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| From | Greg Pfeil <greg@technomadic.org> |
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| Subject | Re: Welcome back! |
| Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:55:51 EDT |
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John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> writes: > Nice! I'm going to take partial credit for this, as I had emailed the > Big-8 MB some time back about finding a new moderator. Glad we got you > back, instead! Oh, you definitely get credit! You are presumably the person they mentioned when they reached out to me. > There was an episode of Scientific American Frontiers years back which > showed Steve Mann's students using their wearables (wired Twiddlers, > hacked camcorder viewfinders) and it made an impression on my youthful > brain, but it's only recently that all the right tech has been available > off the shelf. Yeah, it was a pain to do any of this back in the day. Reading data sheets without much context, ordering things, waiting, hoping you could get them to work the way you wanted … all of those steps seem at least way faster now. > I've been fiddling on and off over the last year or so with a very > traditional wearable computer: head-mounted monocular display, Twiddler > 3 chording keyset, Raspberry Pi 4 running on battery power. The whole > thing is woven through a cheap vest, with the battery in one pocket, Pi > in another pocket, cables run through the lining, etc. I haven’t had a non-mass-produced wearable in forever. I would love to put one together again … and yeah, a Raspberry Pi would be much nicer to carry than the PC/104 half-cube I used to have. > In this time I've seen a big surge in wearables *without* a display > component. Cameras and voice commands are the big thing > now. Something discussed in the heyday of this group was single motor-unit input devices. E.g., training conscious control of say a dozen individual motor neurons, and then using surface electrodes to read them as a hands- and voice-free input device. I explored that path a bit, but kept hoping some company would just get around to it. AFAIK, it never happened. Glad to see you here, John, and sorry it took me so long to reply … I had a minor PGP configuration issue that prevented me from posting and just took a while for that to get to the top of my stack.
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