Bright Eyes Kit

What is the Bright Eyes Kit?

Bright Eyes is DIY technology kit that encourages people to learn programming because it is so cool. It is a pair of glasses which have 174 LEDs (light emitting diodes) on them for you to program. These LEDs can play back graphics and videos off a micro SD card (video player), or be controlled using any microcontroller platform. Best of all, we’re making them Arduino compatible! So, if you want to add a microphone or an ambient light sensor to make them more responsive – you’ll be able to.

All of the code will be open source and freely available. We are working on easy to navigate and understandable tutorials for programming the glasses in various ways. You can create standalone graphics, animations, or generative visuals. By adding sensors, you can literally have the glasses respond to music, or if you're really keen, you can connect them to your twitter account and share your tweets!

We hope that this kit will inspire more people to learn how to program – and then begin making amazing things with technology.

To date, we've done a lot of iterative design work on these wonderful things. We are releasing a very limited number at Selfridges for the holidays - and at the same time will be releasing our Kickstarter early bird edition glasses. This allowed us to really solve all of the challenges in design and production and make sure they were ready for Kickstarter!

Bright Eyes Kit - Front

Bright Eyes Kit - Back

Bright Eyes Kit - Shining!

Who is Technology Will Save Us?

We call ourselves the first haberdashery for technology and education. We exist to educate and enable people to be more creative and productive with the technology in our lives. We do this by offering DIY technology kits and hands-on workshops which have very specific learning agenda's. We sell our kits online and in retail stores in the UK and host regular workshops in the UK and abroad.

Please support this project. We are confident this will be something very special. It will be an contemporary accessory - one that can be customised by the owner. We truly believe that we can inspire more people to learn how to program – because the platform is just so damn cool.

We have just approved a minor (MAJOR) change to Bright Eyes: They now include a built in microphone! What does this mean to you? Well it means that if you want to make Bright Eyes respond to sound - like in a club,or while you sing for example, it'll be even easier. You just have to learn how to program it to do so!