Tao Helsuit

It’s cold in London tonight: 4c/39.2f [feels like 1c/33.8f]. Imagine if that info was available on-suit?

Since I’m (almost begrudgingly) awake, let’s have a stab at ‘a way’ – as they might say in Sunderland.

Consider the following:

  1. What would the world look like if everyone had a top-o-the-line M2 MacBook Pro strapped not to their faces or heads, but to a non-intrusive part of the human body?
  2. What if screens, cameras and other peripherals were decoupled from compute and were used as an extension of an arm?
  3. What if eight billion computers were networked together in one global mesh, what would the world look like? Would we still need data centres?
  4. What if sitting with friends and loved ones, in close proximity, led to an increase in computation? What problems could we solve together?
  5. What is required to make the above a reality?
  6. What hardware and software is required to get us as close to that reality, as close to today as possible?
  7. What is the simplest ‘no-interface’ to such a system?

That’s Helsuit.

Helsuit (base) v0

Call sign: “sleeper-service”. Another first stab:

Software (and some hardware):

OS evaluation – perhaps Android 14 on Rpi 4 or 5?

https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi5/AOSP14/

Cluster management for heterogeneous computing: k8s / docker swarm or similar

Messaging core: MQTT / mosquitto

Initial centralised inter-suit data sharing / message passing: something like UDX (https://www.urbandatacollective.com/)

Certificate generation: ‘self’ certification, X509, ‘everyone is a trusted authority’ (links to call sign generation)

Message format: Smart Data Models / w3c web thing model or similar

Power connectors: stretchy, flexible cords, native USB etc for now – moving towards ‘something that clicks in’ / mag safe? Moving further towards a suit with wireless charging pads in strategic places?

Wireless: WiFi / Bluetooth on RPi 4. Bluetooth / WiFi on samsung device. Bluetooth on Bangle.js. Native wiring for temperature / flex sensors (bluetooth receiver units?)