The Amalgamation: A Complete Open-Source Pair of Smart Glasses

Abstract

There are many open-source smart glasses projects across the internet, all with interesting features and individual sets of hardware and software. While impressive, these projects are generally single-purpose; they focus on one feature and the rest of the product is mediocre in quality. We have produced a design and (nonfunctional) prototype for a new design combining several of these individual concepts: The Amalgamation. Our product includes a high-resolution OLED microdisplay, a high-quality, hobbyist-reproducible frame, a custom PCB for hardware addition and power regulation, an IMU for data and control, and a custom plugin-based software suite with a simple interface and industry-standard libraries. While our display fails to initialize, our work presents a foundation upon which to build a version that does function