Project Hydra: Smart Helmet

Design a tactical battle helmet with long-range encrypted radio-based coms, real-time GPS driven navigation, and night vision capabilities.

Comment

Inspiration

Military Hololens prototype currently in development with Microsoft.

What it does

Helmet with extremely low light camera which can also display information from esp32 board with long-range encrypted radio based coms. Inbuilt GPS provides real-time navigation to waypoints as well as speed calculations.

How I built it

Lots of soldering, programming, and pulling out my hair

Challenges I ran into

I had to figure out how to mirror microdisplay output optically as the image was not mirrorable through software. Came up with a complex optical system to magnify and mirror images over x-axis.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Got this very ambitious project done in basically one day

What I learned

  • How to use LoRa communication as well as maximizing range vs. bandwidth
  • ESP32 composite video interfacing (camera feed, display, etc.)
  • Implementing the Twilio API in Python
  • GPS data parsing and high-level implementation
  • Basics of cryptography
  • Utilizing iOS BLE ANCS for message capturing via esp32 ## What's next for Project Hydra: AR Night Vision
  • Improved GUI
  • Increased ruggedization
  • TinyML driven voice recognition and shot counter
  • More extensive encryption

Built With

Share this project:

Updates

posted an update —

from twilio.rest import Client

lat = input("\ninput latitude: ")

long = input("\ninput longitude: ")

data = lat + "," + long

print(data)

import tkinter as tk from tkinter import simpledialog

ROOT = tk.Tk()

ROOT.withdraw()

the input dialog

data = simpledialog.askstring(title="Navigation", prompt="Coordinates:")

Your Account SID from twilio.com/console

account_sid = "AC531bf4960d4a7e87fa74c473b9eb1ac6"

Your Auth Token from twilio.com/console

auth_token = "f96b75c883d346aaae7bf717c01cef1b"

client = Client(account_sid, auth_token)

message = client.messages.create( to="+14437528998", from_="+13023034205", body="[ Coordinates: " + data + " ]")

print(message.sid)

Attached is our twilio code, wouldn't zip with our document

Log in or sign up for Devpost to join the conversation.