A report with a thorough disassembly of Google Glass appeared, what are you stuffing in?

A computer "Google Glass" which can be worn like eyeglasses like eyeglasses is provided to developers from April, but what kind of thing can you realize if you pack what in the small body People to break up appeared.

Google Glass Teardown
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Since Google Glass can not be obtained at general shops, we first apply for purchase and purchase Google's glasses at three locations in Mountain View (California), Los Angeles (California), New York (New York State) · The student must receive it at the studio.

We will set up Glass in a space called "garage"


Glass frame has some color variations with orange, blue, white, black


I decided to orange Glass


Completed receiving Glass at the glass studio in Mountain View


This is Google's Mountain View glass studios taken with Glass


On the way home taken with Glass


Restaurant taken with Glass as well


Photographed by Glass as he is making a studio to go home and dismantle Glass


So I will break down the Glass that I brought back with. First, remove the titanium frame.



It was screw-fastened, so it was easy to remove it.


By the way, the serial number is written on the inner part where this titanium frame is fixed.


From here we will peel off the plastic exterior.


If epoxy resin is clogged inside, it was hard to decompose, but do not have such a thing and remove the parts ......


Firstly the main prism periphery is exposed.


The part of the string is open with considerably brute force.


As a result, the periphery of the part holding the prism is all open.


By the way, when glasses wearer wearing Google Glass, it was necessary to put it like over glasses, but by removing the titanium frame I was able to make Glass mounted eyeglasses like this in this way.


Although it seems to be doing well only with the exterior appearance, it is said that it can not be used for practical use. Google plans to respond so that such ordinary glasses can be used in the future.


Continue decomposition. In the side case ......


Touch pad board is included.


Although it is famous there because it was only voice operation in the movie when Google Glass appeared, it is also possible to touch by touching the string part. This board realizes that.


And this is the main board. TI OMAP 4430 as a processor, SanDisk 16 GB flash memory as storage, Elpida's DRAM chip mounted.


From the main board the cable is extending towards the box behind the ear ... ...


A single cell lithium polymer battery was built inside. The capacity is roughly 570 mAh, it is impossible for the user to replace it.



A bone conduction speaker is built in between the main board and the battery.


Next, we will disassemble the periphery of the display.



Substrate connecting various sensors. As an inertial sensorMPU-9150Equipped.


Reach display board


It is a very small size, about the size of a 10 cent coin. With this resolution 640 × 360, the pixels are coarse 1/8 of iPhone 5 with Retina display.


In Glass, the display is projected in the air a little away from the eyes, but when you remove the display board ......


I began to see the other side like an optical viewfinder.


The camera unit looks something like this


This completes disassembly


When I break it up with something, it seems impossible to repair on my own ... ....