http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/ 2009-11-21T14:32:20-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/ http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-10-21T13:54:19-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/context_awarness_project?rev=1256147659 Endurance Running Harness for Herbert October 2009 I have been a walker ever since I got my legs back as a teenager.  Before that biking is how I covered distance.  For a time I did not have use of my legs (the result of a biking accident) and was told I would not walk again.  Thankfully that was not the case, but after that the idea of running always seemed foolhardy.  All that impact, thud thud thud, not for me and my spine.  However, of late I am trying running “barefoot” style an… text/html 2008-05-11T19:29:51-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/hacks?rev=1210548591 It became clear during the wiki transition that I had a number of “get ‘em on the field” hacks in a variety of formats and locations as well as other wearable related pages and I needed to gather them up. As I clean up my site, this is where they will all be listed.  For now it is a growing list of links to where they currently reside. text/html 2009-04-14T16:09:06-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/herbeee?rev=1239739746 aka "Herbert Lite" Herbert is a wonderful thing, but let’s face it, it is not inexpensive.  I needed to send it in to Sony for a minor repair So, I built “herbeee” to tide me over... In April of 2008 I got an Asus eeepc with 4gig of flash and 512meg of ram.  In short order I installed eeeXubuntu on it.  I made this move because I wanted to install a number of pieces of software and also because it put the same os on the eeepc as  was using on herbert and the machine the looks down… text/html 2008-09-29T14:37:10-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/iswc_2007?rev=1222713430 In both videos you can see the dual holster. I am also using the ntsc version of the M1. New Scientist Perhaps it should be called “Old Scientist without enough sleep”. When I was at ISWC 2007 in Boston I had a chat with Phil McKenna of New Scientist Magazine. I am the third person interviewed in the video and at the end of the written article archived at www.newscientist.com will your next computer be wearable. It was Friday, I had had almost 5 hours sleep since Monday. Thankfully Herbe… text/html 2008-04-27T22:09:44-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/sidebar?rev=1209348584 [Array] homecontacttips Wearables What am I wearinghackstimelineISWC 2007spiffchorderthe next big thing...herbeee text/html 2009-05-31T12:43:14-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/software?rev=1243788194 Essential Software Looking for a little more info? The following is a list of some of what I consider to be essential software I run in Xubuntu on my wearable. Each of these contribute an key part of the experience: software Dectalk<http://www.fonixspeech.com/dectalk_legacy.php>TTSynth<http://ttsynth.com/>espeak’<http://espeak.source> forge.net/ text/html 2009-04-14T16:15:53-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/timeline_of_rigs?rev=1239740153 [herb one in 1997] [herb three in 1999] [charmerino in 2000] [herb seven in 2008] Most of my wearables pages are about the changes and modifications I have made over the years.  I noticed that it gives the impression I am constantly changing things. On this page you can see just how long particular rigs were or have been in use. text/html 2009-09-02T11:54:02-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top?rev=1251906842 --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/04/02 16:24 [Array] A few details from decades of daily wear Herbert in the Press Background Background (slowly I am trying to gather together and organize what I have been doing with wearables all this time): text/html 2009-06-21T16:29:31-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/usb760?rev=1245616171 Well, I got my Novatel Wireless usb760 and my Verizonwireless broadband plan. I can report that the device works well but can’t be set up entirely under linux. I can also report that VerizonWireless tech folks have much less than no clue about linux.