At ISWC '99 Thad asked me to join Charmed Technology, the startup he was involved with. I was hired to design and build a wearable that could be sold as a kit for hobyists, schools and others looking to get started in wearable computing. The goals were to make a pc104 based rig with a lot of room to grow in order to encourage people to try wearables.
This is one of the devices that came from that endeavor. It was sold for several years as the "charmit". The name was based on name construction from my daughters favorate TV show at the time (she was then 3 years old), Zaboomafo. I produced the "Charmer" with 4 pc104 boards, the "Charmit" with 2 boards and the "Charmerino" which was a smaller 2 board case which I wore until 2005.
Once it was no longer being produced I asked if I could post the original ordering information and related document pages from the charmit. It was an open source project and so it is presented here for your use and enjoyment. The relitive links all work (yes lads, the fashion show images are here) but many of the external links are no more.
Again, this is no longer a product.
Charmit Developer's Kit from 2000
From: Lxlightman at aol dot com
To: thad at cc dot gatech dot edu
CC: priestdo at cs dot vassar dot edu
Subject: Re: CharmIT documentation
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:52:34 EST
In a message dated 3/7/2004 12:27:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
thad at cc dot gatech dot edu writes:
Alex-
Greg Priest Dorman recently asked me if it was OK for him to
post on his Vassar web site the information we made public on the
CharmITs (boards, specs, diagrams, etc.). I assume this is OK as it
will help Charmed's customers to continue to develop their systems.
Thad
Greg and Thad,
Hi. Sure, fine with me. Greg, while we are in touch, ... (unrelated
material removed )...
Sincerely,
Alex Lightman