Computer assisted Mk V/VI made of PE & Kevlar

[M216]

Hi to all!

After watching this side a few month, I want to share my work with you.
I'm building a Mk VI for me, and a Mk V for a friend of mine.
We use them as airsoftarmor with some "specials"...

I'm using Pepacura, like many other, but instead paper, I use Polyethylene as material. These plates are 3-6 mm thick and very easy to work with. The only problem with PE is thy painting. I use Plastidip, because other painting color wouldn' t stay on PE!
The inner side of the armor is filled with kevlar and polyesther.
We also have 10 Neodym magnets on the back for holding the gun, 8 on the belt for holding magazines and 4 on each thight for the magnum and magazines.


The real interessting thing, I believe, is the electronics inside:
Each mjolnir has its own raspberry pi minicomputer (called cortana and vergil) to power the leds, to communicate via wlan, to download informations for the current gps- data from google earth/maps, find and jamm radio signals within 500meters, get infrared lighted videos from the built- in webcam, detect motions on the cam abd bring the picture on a 3d google inside the helmet!
So it is possible to play airsoft in the night in a dark forest, and find all the other players!

The idea behind this was, that nightvision is a very expensive thing, but with a cheap IR- lighted webcam, a minicomputer and a small screen realy cheap to build on your own!

Here I have some fotos from the work in progres.
Hope you enjoy and tell me, what you think!

 

[M216]

Mk VI Helmet building


Chest and arm/shoulder for MK VI building



Mk VI Helmet after painting with PlastiDip:


Mk V Helmet building


Mk V Helmet ready for painting


Mk VI nearly completed


Mk V chest and helmet


Mk Vi arm and handplate


Mk VI thight and shin

 

[HALOSPRTAN]

Wow, this sounds like an amazing idea, i for one am interested in the process you will be using for the electronics, i will definetly be watching this thread. I hope you get what you are looking for.

Cheers

 

[AGENTREGENT]

This sounds awesome! I'm really looking forward to seeing the electronics in it!

 

[M216]

The electronics isn't realy a problem, the raspberry is as big as a credit card, you blug in a wlan- stick , soundcard for the headset, gps stick, and the occulus rift 3d google.

I got "cortana" a year ago to make some tests to switch on and of lights in a house.
After reading some forums and blogs, I found out, how to bring speech to text, programming a small script in phyton is not a problem, so I made a homecontrol similar to the speech activated microwave I found on youtube.
I was wondering, that no one ever came on this idea, because there are some hundrets of hale and masseffect armors in the web, and no one ever tried this???

It is a cheap solution, and hey, did you ever talked with your armor? No? I do!

 

[Demogorgon]

While this is indeed a very interesting topic, creating a HUD, or screen, inside your helmet will not work out very well. Many others have tried making a HUD in their helmet and all have found out it won't work. The screen will be too close to your eyes for them to adjust and focus on the screen. You can even try it out by taking a screen, you can just use your mobile phone, placing your face 3 inches in front of your screen, and try to focus on it. You'll have a hard time and it will make your eyes hurt after a while. The best thing to do would be to place the screen outside the helmet like regular NV goggles. I'm interested to see your kevlar & PE armor so I can't wait to see some photos.

 

[M216]

Postet some fotos, hope you can open it!
I post some more, tomorrow...

The screen in front of the eyes is a problem, now I now, but the 3d google is not a real screen !
Like the google glas, the 3d google uses mirrors to reflect the little screen into your eyes . Occulus says, its like a 52inch monitor from 3 meters or so... I can' proof, but this was my only method I found, to realize the hud, and it functions very good. Try something like this: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1452

The only problem is, you can NOT see trough the visor, you only see the image from what is in front of you. So you have to turn your head not the eyes! We also tried picture-in-picture (showing the cam on the gun) over the normal pocture, but it was too much information for the eye!

 

[Demogorgon]

The only issue you would run into with that is having the necessary space between your helmet visor and your head to fit the goggles in. I'm fairly certain in the MC helmets you only have about 3inches max between your face and the visor, give or take an inch. In order to fit something like the oculus rift into a helmet, you would have to disassemble it and rebuild it to fit inside the helmet, but then the mirrors reflecting the image would be off and a lot of calibration would be needed. It'll be tricky but I'd love to see you pull it off.

 

[Chernobyl]

Postet some fotos, hope you can open it!

We can't. Upload them to Imgur or Photobucket.

 

[M216]

Now you can see it!

The Mk V isn't painted, hope to get it done till may. It will be painted completly black with red and silver stripes and a red dragon on the left chestarmor.