Developer turns 2013 Recon Jet glasses into a Linux AI assistant
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A developer revived a 2013 Recon Jet smart glasses unit by replacing its dead battery and using Claude Code to root the device, then replaced Android with mainline Linux 6.18, porting drivers for the display, touchpad, camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, speaker, microphones and IMU. The rooted stock Android is kept as a fallback, and the glasses now boot Linux from eMMC in under four seconds. The glasses serve as a camera and voice assistant. The developer says all AI processing is wired to a llama-swap server in his homelab; because the glasses have no cellular radio, they use his phone as a WiFi hotspot and reach those services through a VPN when out in the world. The wake phrase runs a microWakeWord model trained on a Mac.
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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.
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