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By curly.drew
@ Wed, 2011-08-31 21:48

This is cool, I've been wanting to do something like this for ages but I've never spotted a pair of these that weren't outside my price range (or more specifically, outside of what I could feasibly justify to my partner :P).

Some ideas (some crazy);

  • RC/robot video feed and control screen. A fire fighting robot with on board heat and water supply sensors springs to mind.
  • Biometrics overlay
  • Real time data from android over ADK - what ever you want: news, local coffee shops, wifi, etc.
  • Hook into a Nerf gun/paintball with the arduino - using it to count rounds on an FPS style overlay.
  • Combine previous with virtual zombies

Anywho, well done, it looks great.

Drew

By navic
@ Tue, 2011-09-13 21:17
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Thanks for the ideas Drew.  The Video Experimenter Shield I'm using really drains the ATmega328 resources so communications with external devices is kinda tough to pull off.  I'm going to start out with GPS overlay data but it's been slow so far.  Interfacing with Android devices sounds very cool, I may have to pick up an IOIO and see what I can do

By basile
@ Wed, 2011-09-14 10:15
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Have you ever thought of using an emulated arduino core?
Maybe you could try the AlienCortex AV (http://hackaday.com/2011/06/23/use-fpgas-the-easy-way-with-alien-cortex-av/).
From what it says it has 4 cores that could be programmed with the avr core plus you will have a boost on speed. I don't think it will be running at 16Mhz as the Arduino.

basile

By navic
@ Wed, 2011-09-14 16:56
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I read a bit about the AlienCortex AV before but will research FPGAs and see if that will help.  Thanks for that suggestion!

By Geir Andersen
@ Tue, 2011-08-30 17:48
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This could be an interseting project to follow.
What type of goggles and camera are you using?

By navic
@ Tue, 2011-08-30 18:04
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Honestly I don't really know!

The goggles were purchased at a Brookstone store 2+ years ago, there are no labels on the goggles themsevles so I don't know who manufactured them.  If you're familiar with Brookstone then you'll know they don't keep products like this very long.  The camera was harvested from an unknown television based game system from a thirft store.  Again no labels on it at all.

This project just uses what I had laying around.  I'll keep it updated when I make progress.