Re: [9fans] Wearables

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 5/17/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> > lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > But if ever there was a market born to take best advantage of Plan9's long suit,
> > handheld, or 'wearable' has to be the most obvious contender, and on power nd
> > bandwidth consumption as much as CPU cycles or 'local' RAM capacity.
> >
>
> A friend and I are starting a project to create a simple wearable computer. We've
> got some hardware to get started; probably will begin with a laptop, our camera
> viewfinder HMD, and a keyboard strapped around the waist (crude, I know) or
> some form of home-brewed chording device. I considered using Plan 9, but since
> we don't plan to include a pointing device yet, and the viewfinder can only display
> low resolutions and in black and white, I think we'll end up going with something
> designed to be used 80x24 characters at a time... Linux. If somebody can present
> me with some good reasons to use Plan 9 instead, we can try it, but I really
> don't think Plan 9 actually is ideal for a wearable.
>

What are your requirements that disqualify Plan 9?  Or is just a "feeling"?

Coraid puts Plan 9 in their storage products.  It's performing a
useful task, and you don't even need to know it's there.  But it's
still powering the device.

Small and simple can still be beautiful and elegant :-)

> John
>
>


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