Geek Republic » myvu http://www.geek-republic.com ...in Geek we trust Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:45:15 +0000 en hourly 1 MyVu Personal Video Viewer Hacked to Allow Input From Any Video Device http://www.geek-republic.com/2008/08/19/myvu-personal-video-viewer-hacked-to-allow-input-from-any-video-device/ http://www.geek-republic.com/2008/08/19/myvu-personal-video-viewer-hacked-to-allow-input-from-any-video-device/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:03:32 +0000 Mike Nathan http://www.teamhackaday.com/?p=40 For those of you unfamiliar with the MyVu Personal Video Device, it resembles a set of sunglasses with video screens and a pair of headphones built in.  It’s a great little product, but forum member RetroPlayer did not like the fact that his MyVu was tethered only to his iPod.  He decided he wanted to liberate the mini-theater to allow it the ability to connect to any video player with a standard CINCH/AV output, aka an “RCA Output”.

He poked around for a bit, then finally ended up calling MyVu in order to try talking to an engineer.  Surprisingly, he was put through to one, and the engineer was quite accommodating.  He gave RetroPlayer a ton of information, which helped him overcome some issues he was having.

The hack works well, but isn’t quite complete yet.  RetroPlayer has posted schematics and all the details of his project, but has stated that he will continue working on it, taking it from the breadboard to an actual adapter.

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