Something creative

23 Feb 2019

I want to make a gadget shoe for our army that can detect landmines before they should touch it work as an shoe vibrator which can vibrate before they touch the landmines by its feet

Thanks for listening to me

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jw0752 over 5 years ago +2

Hi Nihar, I do not know anything about land mines. What would be the detectable material in the mine? Can they be detected with a metal locator? Is there any danger that an EM field would trigger them…
dougw over 5 years ago +2

Interesting idea. There are many technologies that can be used to detect land mines and IEDs, although each technology has limits on what it can detect. Most of them can detect some mines at a distance…
michaelkellett over 5 years ago +1

I think a detector in your shoe is going to be a bit late to do you much good. If it used an active system for detection it wouldn't be long before mine makers used that as a trigger. MK

msbettyhunt over 4 years ago

That would be a great step if you want to contribute towards the advancement and optimization of the mine detector. I appreciate your this thought.
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dougw over 5 years ago

Interesting idea. There are many technologies that can be used to detect land mines and IEDs, although each technology has limits on what it can detect. Most of them can detect some mines at a distance, and some technologies can be quite small, so theoretically they could be installed in a boot. You could start with a simple metal detector and see if you can get that working. Then you can move on to more esoteric technologies.
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Jan Cumps over 5 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

michaelkellett wrote:

I think a detector in your shoe is going to be a bit late to do you much good.

If it used an active system for detection it wouldn't be long before mine makers used that as a trigger.

MK
as jw0752 indicates. mines have virtually no easily detectable materials anymore these days. And as Michael says, detection systems may bring more danger, in particular ones that use electromagnetism or radio/radar/sonar tech.
A tough subject to solve.
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michaelkellett over 5 years ago

I think a detector in your shoe is going to be a bit late to do you much good.

If it used an active system for detection it wouldn't be long before mine makers used that as a trigger.

MK
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jw0752 over 5 years ago

Hi Nihar,

I do not know anything about land mines. What would be the detectable material in the mine? Can they be detected with a metal locator? Is there any danger that an EM field would trigger them? I suspect that the military may not want to encumber the feet of the soldiers even at the risk of loosing them to mines. Your idea is to be commended.

John
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