Hacking 2013 Recon Jet smart glasses into a Linux camera and voice AI assistant

A developer revived a 2013 Recon Jet smart glasses unit by replacing its dead battery and using Claude Code to root the device, mapping its hardware and building a replacement menu on Android within a day. The project then swapped Android for mainline Linux 6.18, porting drivers for the display, touchpad, camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, speaker, microphones and IMU, with the rooted stock Android kept as a fallback. The glasses now boot Linux from eMMC in under four seconds.