January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
13h 33m
English
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Chapter 14, How to Build a Wearable Computer
Exhibit A: Bill of Materials
Item Quantity Notes
Main processor 1 AAEON Model PCM-5335 PC104 platform
Head-mount display 1 I-glasses, Micro-Optical, M1 Display
Power supply 1 PowerOne Model DGP12U5S5 plus PROTO-PC104 from
Diamond Systems
Batteries 6 D-sized NiMH cells from Panasonic
Mass storage system 1 IBM 1GB Microdrive
Text input device 1 Wrist keyboard from L3Systems
Pointing device 1 Finger mouse
Wireless network connection 1 802.11b Compact Flash Card
Carrying case 1 Eagle Creek belt pack
Audio interface 1 Optional; Telex USB Audio I/O system
Digital mobile phone interface 1 Optional
Serial or USB cable 1 Connect to mobile phone, GPS unit, camera, or audio system
Camera 1 Optional; any USB Camera
GPS receiver 1 Optional; Garmin Gecko
USB mini hub 1 Optional
Exhibit A
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