Hacked 2013 Recon Jet sports glasses into a Linux camera/voice AI assistant
Hacked 2013 Recon Jet sports glasses into a Linux camera/voice AI assistant
A developer revived a barely-used 2013 Recon Jet (TI OMAP4430, 1 GiB RAM, 8 GB eMMC, 428x240 Kopin microdisplay) by replacing its dead battery, then used Claude Code to root it, port mainline Linux 6.18 with drivers for display, touchpad, camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, IMU and more, and build a voice-driven AI assistant. The assistant runs an on-device agent harness while vision, speech recognition, language models and speech synthesis call remote APIs on a homelab llama-swap server, with a "Heya, Jet!" wake word and a cranky-NPC persona using a cloned voice. The author notes the AI's world model lacked spatial coherence and that Claude excelled at low-level reverse engineering but failed at architectural hygiene.
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