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Date Created: 7 Oct 2019 7:09 PM
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Episode 415: Iron Man Helmet Heads Up Display

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When Iron Man came out, it certainly had an influence on the maker scene - definitely on Dave. He has decided to finally 3D print the files for a Mark 2/3 helmet found on the internet and upgrade the print with not one but two self made head-up displays! He talks us through the problems he encountered setting up the displays to work and finally install the lenses and displays into the faceplate. Anyone can do lights and servos, but can your helmet tell you what direction you’re flying to and what your altitude is, based on a humidity sensor? Let’s find out if Dave can do it. 

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Product Name Manufacturer Quantity Buy Kit
PowerBoost 1000. LiPo Battery Charger Adafruit 1 Buy Now

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2x 0.96 Inch Display ST7735S RGB 160x80

2x Fresnel lens 50mm radius, 80mm focal length, used for google cardboard VR goggles

Any ESP32 board, like the dev-kit boards

BMP280 sensor board

MPU9250 sensor board

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  • dougw
    dougw over 2 years ago +3

    Great work building a functional heads-up display.

  • phoenixcomm
    phoenixcomm over 2 years ago +3

    davedarko

    I love your combiners. on the altitude, you have over though it. Basically, with aircraft, you have to know the barometric pressure for any given airfield and they are all published, So you said…

  • DAB
    DAB over 2 years ago +2

    Nice project.

     

    I did a similar project about 40 years ago where we put flight information onto a FLIR display for search and rescue helicopter work.

    While I did not have the helmet issue you are trying to…

  • phoenixcomm
    phoenixcomm over 2 years ago in reply to davedarko

    davedarko great minds think alike. Way too much coffee and beer. personly I don't know which I like better.

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    davedarko over 2 years ago in reply to phoenixcomm

    I'm pretty sure that's what the library did already. I was looking at pressure values on a weather map for Berlin and used them. Sadly it wasn't as accurate, as Berlin is big and I was 6-7km away from the measured points and therefore had an offset of 50-60m in altitude all the time. I could have set a reference point on my balcony first though and then go higher in the building to get the difference of that instead. Schoenefeld is 20km away from my home Oh right, you said what I said in the second part. That would have been great! Thanks for the input!

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  • davedarko
    davedarko over 2 years ago in reply to ankur608

    Thanks! There's someone already out there building E.D.I.T.H. glasses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA5uE4tdb_g

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  • jw0752
    jw0752 over 2 years ago

    Thanks for the sharing your process to making this neat heads up display helmet.

     

    John

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    ankur608 over 2 years ago

    Nice initiative for open-sourcing the Stark's Suit; which all starts from the exo-HUD helmet, and let's hope soon it would be equipped with the E.D.I.T.H. glasses tech.

    makercommunity

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    phoenixcomm over 2 years ago

    davedarko

    I love your combiners. on the altitude, you have over though it. Basically, with aircraft, you have to know the barometric pressure for any given airfield and they are all published, So you said that you were in Berlin then you can check with your local airport for the QNH values.  Berlin/Schoenefied International  Has a value of 1011 hPa (hectopascal). Now  1 millibar (mb) == 1 hPa. So as you go up in altitude hPa values decrease. So You could preprogram the reference value or the local airport, and you math would be simple:

    Areading =    1000 hPa

    Aref        = -  1011

    ----------------------

    Acurrent   =    989 hPa

     

    Or you could take one sample when you start Aref then by sampling and running the subtraction against the sample you will always be at the altitude. please remember that it will not be in altitude. ie feet above the ground you will have to convert this as well and temperature can influence this as well.

    to sum up  take alook at this https://sciencing.com/convert-hpa-altitude-8404260.html

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    DAB over 2 years ago

    Nice project.

     

    I did a similar project about 40 years ago where we put flight information onto a FLIR display for search and rescue helicopter work.

    While I did not have the helmet issue you are trying to solve, we did provide the pilot with all of the attitude information so that he could fly the helicopter in zero visibility.

     

    DAB

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    dougw over 2 years ago

    Great work building a functional heads-up display.

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