An open-source iOS app that puts the assistant of your choosing on Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Everything private stays on the phone.

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7 posts since 2016

— 2026

Building a Home on Wheels

Two weeks turning an ex-accessibility van into a bedroom, office and kitchen, plus the two boss fights nobody warns you about.

— 2022

Being Resourceful Is the Best Money Saving Strategy

A dead MacBook port and a smashed phone screen, both fixed in under an hour. The repairs are not the interesting part; what the savings turn into is.

— 2017

Engraved Acrylic LED Light accessory

Scavenging spare components from the MagicMirror project to build something cool!

Integrating speakers into a Motorcycle Helmet

Bringing the music inside the helmet.

— 2016

Building the Hardware

After getting the software side of things up and running, it is time to build the hardware, the cost-efficient way.

Ambilight

LEDs behind the monitor that follow whatever is on it. Philips ships this with their televisions, so I built one out of an Arduino and a strip of tape.

Join the adventure

An electronics kit at five years old, computers about a decade later, and the hook was set. This is where it all started.

Hermes Glasses: Your Own AI on Ray-Bans