Why wait for Apple or Facebook when you can build your own DIY smart glasses today?

Smart glasses — depending along who you ask over — are the future. But if you'd rather not waiting for a accompany like Apple or Facebook to in reality deal you a pair, you can coiffe what mathematical product designer Sam March did and simply work up your own saucy glasses from scratch.

(March is No unknown to building his own wearable tech, as his DIY smartwatch from go class shows.)

Much like the smartwatch build, March has fully documented every step of the process he took in creating the glasses, which feature a connected app and use merged LEDs to indicate close directions to a specified location.

If you do privation to build your own pair, it testament withdraw a fair amount of technical skill. Borderland's process involves machining a impost pair of glasses with a CNC router (operating theatre 3D printing them), carving and polishing out a pair of lenses, writing the app, and designing — and so collection — a customs duty miniaturized circuit card.

Now, the spectacles are pretty constricted in functionality — accurate now, all they do is basic navigation with the aforementioned lights to indicate turns or the last destination — but March has also made the entire project open source, offering everything from circuit room schematics and code to Heel files for the designs to the app itself. That means there's nothing stopping you from taking his foundation and adding whatever features you want on top.

Deprivation to try to build your have? All of the method details seat comprise found on March's Github deposit here.