Bright Eyes: Programmable LED Glasses

Bright Eyes DIY LED glasses should be an instant hit with the LED reef aquarium crowd and many others. Who wouldn't want a pair of glasses with 174 programmable LEDs on them? The Bright Eyes glasses will play graphics or video off an SD card or can be controlled by any microcontroller platform as they are Arduino compatible. With sensors such as the now stock microphone, Bright Eyes can interact with their environment. Will they cause us to stop interacting? Possibly. Or proclaim - "Are we not men? We are Devo!" 'Specs' below.







Bright Eyes Kit

• pcb material, pre-assembled, snap-together

3 Levels with kit

• Super Easy - copy to USB stick
• Writing Code - sensors, inputs/outputs, etc - using Arduino
• Hard Core - Essentially anything. Twitter feed, co2 levels, ambient dimming are examples listed

Company
Technology Will Save Us
- UK based Start Up that has created a series of DIY kits to inspire people to program

<iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/440858363/the-bright-eyes-kit-diy-led-glasses-to-inspire-pro/widget/video.html" frameborder="0"> </iframe>

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The Bright Eyes Kit - DIY LED glasses to inspire programming by Daniel Hirschmann &mdash; Kickstarter

 

Very interesting, while I find the glasses themselves quite ugly the concept behind them of teaching people to program is quite ingenious, creating your own logos or messages could become popular with some people with a little creativity behind them. Good write up Matt.

 

Very cool, but very expensive!

But for 237 US dollars count me out

 

These cost real money? I thought the £ was a symbol for monopoly money... :-/


Kool concept but I want RGB LEDs. I'll stick to my Adafruit belt at that cost...

 

Aye. I thought about that. I believe part of that cost is to get this project off the ground as they are in need of funding to produce 100 of these kits.

So the 'early bird' price may be a bit higher than the production units.


matt

 

I hope so, typically the KickStarter price is below MSRP. But sometimes things are reversed overseas

 

Heh. Yeah I hear you. Not sure. But their other kits are now cheap I noted.

Besides, surely this is a cheap price to pay to go with your sweater from last year Chris?

 

Oh WOW!!!!!!! I still have that sweater, perhaps I need to install some CREE LEDs this year.

I remember those Kenya Tree, PC Bulb days..

So much has changed since then.

 

Yeah, kickstarter's are usually cheaper or MSRP with first run. Knowing prices on components and that they have resources to build or have these built. I don't see why these are so expensive.

But, with the video it seems like fundraising more than anything.

Yeah, Rewire it! Dimmable, storm mode...
https://www.adafruit.com/products/659
https://www.adafruit.com/products/1060

 

Update:
With 12 hours to go in their fundraising, Technology Will Save Us company has just raised enough money to make these Bright Eyes LED glasses!
The Bright Eyes Kit - DIY LED glasses to inspire programming by Daniel Hirschmann &mdash; Kickstarter

It didn't look like this just a few days ago. They had a heck of rally - congrats! 8)

matt