Hey fellow founders,
I am a Software engineer and founder looking to join the Hardware world. I’d like to start prototyping an AI wearable, any advice on that topic ?
Does anyone in the community already worked with hardware and would be able to point me to a HDK with Bluetooth, a camera, a mic and a couple of sensors that I could use to start prototyping and work on the Software side ?
As a former wearables designer I would go for something like radxa/orange (for exapmle rk3588 with built-in TPU for local inference) . Add off-the-shelf peripherals as needed, prototype and iterate on this open source hw/sw stack, than migrate to your own hw/pcb design utilizing same chips.
I was just thinking what we can get by attaching a camera to a mobile phone or using the built in one, for “looking” and trying to understand what is around us.
My use case was about looking at book covers, but recognizing “important” objects (and prices) is the more general one.
I am interested, if a group forms. I am a SW guy.
I am in hardware and never heard the term AI wearable, it is called “embodiment”
Anyway what exactly you want to do, you shared different items without mentioning what is the design is, or it just capturing data. Your question is quite vague
To give more context here is the goal: to have a device you could wear as a necklace a band or attached to your clothes that can listen and see what you do and act on it, let’s say I’m talking with my wife she told me we need to buy milk the AI will add it to the grocery list or I’m talking with a colleague about booking a meeting it will add a calendar event or the device see that I’m entering a meeting it gives me context about the meeting etc…
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Check out Humans new product it sounds like what you are talking about
I’m a big ESP32 fan. They’re easy to develop on and very cheap to get into production with, if your project goes in that direction. For these reasons, they’re absolutely everywhere in the connected devices world. The new ones are lower power, and even have some machine learning/edge compute capabilities. But the hardware is going to depend on the systems engineering and where you’re planning on running the AI functions.
The easiest start you’ll have is to just find an open source project with similar capability and just piggyback on their system architecture
Aw good God! Don’t do it. I’m 5 years deep and it is turning into a noose around my neck. Happy to talk further in my pitfalls etc
Find a good electrical engineer and hardware engineer.