Building a $180 Privacy-First AI Wearable

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · May 18, 2026 · 30m

Omi started as a wearable recorder but pivoted to a developer platform in 2024. Now their $99 dev kit and new screen processing beta let you build a voice-controlled system that watches your monitor, extracts tasks, and keeps everything local — no cloud round trips. We break down the hardware specs, the local-first architecture using Phi-3-mini and Tesseract on ARM, and what the community is actually building with it. From automated Jira ticket creation to Figma revision tracking, the ecosystem is small but punching above its weight. Episode 2911 — myweirdprompts.com/n/2911 (permanent short…