# Mentra-Community/OpenSourceSmartGlasses

Open Source smart glasses designed to be 1. All day wearable 2. Immediately useful 3. Extendable for makers, startups, and everyone else.

Repository: https://github.com/Mentra-Community/OpenSourceSmartGlasses
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/opensourcesmartglasses
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Topics: smart, smartglasses, smartglass, smartwatch, wearable, wearable-devices, wearables, wearable-cameras, wearable-sensors
Last push: 2024-11-27T18:20:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1629, "days_push": 644, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1179, forks 148 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:53.221626+00:00)

## What it is
An open source smart glasses hardware and software project with display, microphones, wireless phone connection, and prescription lenses, including mechanical, electrical, and software design files. It connects to the Wearable Intelligence System to host apps like live translation, contextual search, and an intelligent assistant.

## Use cases
- build your own smart glasses
- diy wearable display hardware
- smart glasses for live language translation
- wearable AI assistant platform
- open source hardware for makers and startups
- all-day wearable computing

## When to choose
- you want to build or hack on open smart glasses hardware
- you need complete mechanical, electrical, and software design files
- you want a maker-friendly wearable platform to extend

## When to avoid
- you want a polished consumer product ready to buy
- you need a commercially supported device with warranty
- you want active development - the team has moved on to AugmentOS

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: embedded, sdk, speech-recognition, nlp, chatbot
- domain: hardware, iot, artificial-intelligence, developer-tools
- platform: embedded, iot, cross-platform
- tags: smart-glasses, wearables, open-hardware, diy-electronics, augmented-reality, 3d-printing, pcb-design

## Member repositories
- Mentra-Community/OpenSourceSmartGlasses (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.221626+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:25:26.449765+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Mentra-Community/OpenSourceSmartGlasses (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.221626+00:00, sha b0b2de99ba5e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.