How can you get started with your Google Glass?

Getting started with Google Glass!

When using Google Glass it is best to use an Android device, therefore you can maximize your abilities through Bluetooth and the MyGlass Android app with the Google Glass.

When you first turn your Google Glass on, here is what you will see, the time and "ok glass":

Download the MyGlass application for your Android device: Naturally your Google Glass will have Bluetooth already enabled, which makes it easy to pair with your Android device. Take a look at the application and run through the setup to get started with Google Glass!

Pairing the Google Glass and the MyGlass app allows for notifications to be sent directly from your device to your Glass! Watch the Official Google video here:

OpenQuartz: Google Glass Open Source Development

OpenQuartz: Google Glass Open Source Development

Much like quartz sand is the main ingredient in most commercial glass, we want OpenQuartz to be the main "ingredient" in the future development for Google Glass!


Find the repository here: https://github.com/jaredsburrows/OpenQuartz

Here is an OpenCV Android implementation of Face Detection!

Example Applications for Google Glass(/example-apps)

• GDK
  • Hello Glass - Andre Compagno
    • Basic "HelloWorld"
  • Voice Example - Andre Compagno
    • Voice Recognition Example
• Misc
  • Glass Preview - Jared Burrows
    • "Hotfix" for Google Glass camera preview - post-XE10
  • Face Detection - Jared Burrows
    • "Hotfix" for Google Glass camera preview - post-XE10

Google Glass Application Source Code(/glass-source):

UPDATE(11/19/13): GDK is now out! You can still easily decompile applications using this method.

Since the GDK is not yet released, we can look around how the current Google Glass Android applications were compile by breaking them down. The decompiled Google Glass applications are included. Here are a list of tools to decompile the native APKs:

• Decompiling APKs
  • Dex2Jar
    • https://code.google.com/p/dex2jar
• Decompiling compiled Java (.class) files
  • Jad
    • http://www.varaneckas.com/jad
• View decompiled JAR files from Dex2Jar
  • JD-GUI
    • http://jd.benow.ca/
• Dumping APK Resources
  • Android APKtool
    • https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool
• All in One Tool
  • APK Inspector
    • https://code.google.com/p/apkinspector/ (old link)
    • https://github.com/honeynet/apkinspector/
  • http://www.decompileandroid.com/

Read more:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3122635/is-it-possible-to-decompile-an-android-apk-file
• http://blog.burrowsapps.com/2012/02/hacking-facebook-for-android.html
• http://blog.burrowsapps.com/2012/05/how-to-reverse-engineer-android-malware.html

Third Party Applications(/third-party):

Here are helpful applications to install on your Glass in order to start testing and developing.

• Android Applications
  • API Demos
  • Barcode Scanner
  • Capture Activity
  • Dev Tools
  • Launcher
    • Regular ICS Launcher
  • Launchy (update to XE11 first)
    • https://github.com/kaze0/launchy
  • OpenCV for Android
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.opencv.engine
  • Settings
  • Terminal Emulator
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm
• Helpful Tools
  • Android Screen Monitor
    • https://code.google.com/p/android-screen-monitor/

Basic ADB Usage(From Terminal or CMD Prompt):

Since there is no "Google Play" for the Glass yet, we have to side load Android applications for now.

• Installing/Uninstall Applications(.apks):
  • adb install -r FILE.apk
  • adb uninstall FILE.apk
• Running the Application:
  • adb shell am start -n PACKAGE.NAME/.MAIN.ACTIVITY.NAME
• List all Packages on your Android Device:
  • adb shell pm list packages -f
• List all Relative Information about your Android Device:
  • adb shell dumpsys
    • adb shell dumpsys battery
    • adb shell dumpsys wifi
    • adb shell dumpsys cpuinfo
    • adb shell dumpsys meminfo
      • adb shell dumpsys meminfo PACKAGE.NAME
  • adb shell cat "/system/build.prop" | grep "product"
• Show the AndroidManifest for an APK
  • aapt dump xmltree FILE.apk AndroidManifest.xml
• Screenshots from Commandline
  • adb shell /system/bin/screencap -p /sdcard/screenshot.png
  • adb pull /sdcard/screenshot.png screenshot.png

Read more:

• http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11201659/whats-android-adb-shell-dumpsys-tool-and-its-benefits

Current Open Source Projects:

• Google Glass Playground
  • https://github.com/space150/google-glass-playground
• OpenShades: WearScript
  • https://github.com/OpenShades/wearscript
• Example of Decompiled Resources:
  • https://github.com/zhuowei/Xenologer-src-glasshome

Pre-GDK Glass Applications:

• Compass
  • https://www.github.com/googleglass/apk-compass-sample
• Level
  • https://www.github.com/googleglass/apk-level-sample
• Stopwatch
  • https://www.github.com/googleglass/apk-stopwatch-sample
• Waveform
  • https://www.github.com/googleglass/apk-waveform-sample

Important Libraries:

• Google
  • Android SDK
    • http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
  • Android NDK (Native Development Kit)
    • http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
  • GDK (Glass Development Kit)
    • https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/
• Misc
  • OpenCV(OpenCV for Android)
    • http://opencv.org/platforms/android.html

Google Glass Resources:

• Overview
  • https://developers.google.com/glass/
• Basic Setup
  • https://glass.google.com/u/0/setup
• Technical Specifications
  • https://support.google.com/glass/answer/3064128
• Developer Guidelines
  • https://developers.google.com/glass/guidelines
• GDK
  • https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/
• Github
  • https://github.com/googleglass
• Boot Images and Kernels
  • https://developers.google.com/glass/downloads/system

License

Copyright (C) 2013 OpenQuartz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Google Glass Frequently Asked Questions

Google Glass Frequently Asked Questions

Here is a small list of questions I was asked within my first week with the Google Glass! I will continue to update and add more unique questions that help try and explain my experience with the Google Glass.

1. What are you wearing?

Google Glass.

2. Is your vision so bad, you need those to see?

No, I’m just wearing Google Glass.

3. How much does it cost?

Google Glass Explorer Edition costs $1500, not including taxes.

4. Can you see the screen clearly?

Yes, your vision is hardly blocked and the glass on the Google Glass is clear.

5. What is on your glasses?

I am not wearing Glasses, I am wearing a pair of Google Glass.

6. Is that Google Glass?

Yes.

7. How did you get Google Glass?

Invite.

8. Are you a beta tester?

I am a Google Glass Explorer.

9. What do you see exactly?

I can show you what I see with screencast but basically my vision is not blocked at all. When I look through the Glass, when it is on, I can see the Google Glass interface. (link for more information)

10. Are you a developer?

Yes, but you don’t have to be a developer to obtain Google Glass.

11. How can I get a pair?

http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one/

12. Hey, I thought that did not come out yet?

They should come out around sometime next year during quarter 2.

13. What is Google Glass?

http://www.google.com/glass/start/

14. Do they actually come with a pair of Glasses?

Yes, I have actually seen posts on Google Plus about people getting prescriptions for Google Glass.

15. What is Google Glass?

http://www.google.com/glass/start/

How to Restart Mac OSX sound system?

How to Restart Mac OSX sound system?

Run this in Terminal:

sudo killall coreaudiod

How to setup Raspberry PI

How to setup Raspberry PI
First, order your Raspberry PI here:

http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi

Read the quick start guide:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/quick-start-guide-v2_1.pdf https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs

Download your Linux image and unzip it:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Install Linux:

http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

Run this command in terminal(make sure you have the correct /dev/disk number /dev/disk[n]):

sudo dd bs=1m if=2013-07-26-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/disk2

Math App - Easy to use Android Application for everyday High school and College students!

Finally! Math App is out of Beta and ready for use!
- New Action Bar Icons and Colors!
- New Icon for the App itself!

- Tons of common equations for everyday High school and College students(Chemistry, Physics, etc..)!

Please check it out and give feedback!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=burrows.apps.math

Welcome to Math App Beta by Andre Compagno and Jared Burrows

http://www.burrowsapps.com/

Send all suggestions to burrowsapps@gmail.com

Special thanks to Andre Compagno

This application makes it easier than ever to solve and search for equations. All the math is done for you, all you have to do is select the equation and input the values! Constants are built in for all equations!

Math App features:

How to use Math App:
1. Click on the equations
2. Fill in the values you are given
3. Click the caclulate icon

Naviation Bar:
✔ Search Equations
✔ Log in through Facebook - Share with your Friends - Coming soon!
✔ Send Feedback to the Developers!
✔ Share
✔ Help - Click to view the tutorial
✔ About

Features and Solvers:
✔ List of Common Equations
✔ Vector Dot Product
✔ Vector Cross Product
✔ Angle Between 2 Vectors
✔ Magnitude of a Vector
✔ Matrix Multiplication
✔ Matrix Determinant
✔ System of Equations

Tutorial:
✔ Teaches you how to properly use the app!

Equation Descriptions:
✔ Coming Soon!

Favorites:
✔ Add equations to your favorites list in order to easily access them

Permissions requested:
✔ Internet

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How to compile HelloWorld in Intel x86-32 on Mac OSX/FreeBSD

How to compile HelloWorld in Intel x86-32 on Mac OSX/FreeBSD

Compile in your Terminal:

nasm -o hello.tmp -f macho hello.s && ld -arch i386 -macosx_version_min 10.6 -no_pie -e _main -o hello.o hello.tmp && ./hello.o

The Code:

section .data                   ; constants stored here

    msg db "Hello World!", 0xa  ; our string to be printed
    len equ $ - msg             ; get the length of our string

section .text                   ; labels stored here

global _main                    ; specify our main function - (ld -e main)

_syscall:                       ; label - system call - call kernel - how we print to the screen
    int 0x80
    ret

_main:                          ; label - technically int main()
    push    dword len           ; message length
    push    dword msg           ; message to write
    push    dword 1             ; file descriptor - 1 - stdout
    mov     eax, 0x4            ; system call number - 4 - system write
    call    _syscall            ; go to label(function call) - _syscall

    ;  add     esp,12          ;clean stack (3 arguments * 4)

    push    dword 0             ; exit code - return 0
    mov     eax, 0x1            ; system call number (sys_exit)
    call    _syscall            ; go to label(function call) - _syscall

Find more here:

https://github.com/jaredsburrows/Assembly

How to install httrack to download websites

How to install httrack to download websites

To install:

sudo apt-get install httrack