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The Internet has become a pretty good mask to portray yourself as anything you want. This includes hiding your true emotions when posting facebook statuses, IMing someone, or sending emails (like telling you're boss they are awesome when they are really a jerk). But what about talking to someone in real life? How do you hide yourself then? That's where the Emoticon Helmet comes in. The person that you're talking to will never know how disgusted your face looks when you see their dress if you always show a happy face! Or how you're happy that you mean ol uncle died and you're smiling the entire time, but everyone else sees a frown.
This project was one that I've always wanted to do, but I never found the time to. But when the time rolled around for our final project in my Engineering 101 class, I suddenly found an excuse to make this ridiculous contraption. I first got the idea for this a while ago from the Mask of Emotion, but I couldn't actually find where to buy it. So why not do the next best thing and make one myself? It was a team project, so I did half of the work while my teammate did the other half. That's also why some of these pictures aren't the best quality, because he tried sending me the pictures, but there was a miscommunication, so I just pulled them off of a video he made over it.
The helmet has 12 faces total: happy, sad, neutral, mad, surprised, tired, confused, disgruntled, disgusted, elated, worried, and creepy. It is done with a set of 22 LEDs, 6 for each eye and 10 for the mouth. It is set up as a multiplex matrix and hooked up to an Arduino in the back of the helmet, which is powered by four AA batteries. The user can switch between the faces with 2 buttons on a controller in the user's hand.
This project was one that I've always wanted to do, but I never found the time to. But when the time rolled around for our final project in my Engineering 101 class, I suddenly found an excuse to make this ridiculous contraption. I first got the idea for this a while ago from the Mask of Emotion, but I couldn't actually find where to buy it. So why not do the next best thing and make one myself? It was a team project, so I did half of the work while my teammate did the other half. That's also why some of these pictures aren't the best quality, because he tried sending me the pictures, but there was a miscommunication, so I just pulled them off of a video he made over it.
The helmet has 12 faces total: happy, sad, neutral, mad, surprised, tired, confused, disgruntled, disgusted, elated, worried, and creepy. It is done with a set of 22 LEDs, 6 for each eye and 10 for the mouth. It is set up as a multiplex matrix and hooked up to an Arduino in the back of the helmet, which is powered by four AA batteries. The user can switch between the faces with 2 buttons on a controller in the user's hand.
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What's a project without supplies? Things I used:
- a motorcycle helmet (can be any helmet as long as it has a visor)
- an Arduino Uno
- 22 red LEDs
- plenty of wire and ribbon wire
- 10 resistors
- 4-6 transistors (depends on how you set up the multiplex)
- experimental board
- 2 buttons
- button housing (an old mini M&Ms bottle)
Tools:
- Hand drill
- 7/32 inch drill bit
- 3/8 inch drill bit (?) (can't remember if that was correct)
- Jigsaw
- Soldering iron
- Hot glue gun
- Duct tape
- a motorcycle helmet (can be any helmet as long as it has a visor)
- an Arduino Uno
- 22 red LEDs
- plenty of wire and ribbon wire
- 10 resistors
- 4-6 transistors (depends on how you set up the multiplex)
- experimental board
- 2 buttons
- button housing (an old mini M&Ms bottle)
Tools:
- Hand drill
- 7/32 inch drill bit
- 3/8 inch drill bit (?) (can't remember if that was correct)
- Jigsaw
- Soldering iron
- Hot glue gun
- Duct tape
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Your Engr101 teacher.
Thanks for the rent idea, but I got one for Christmas. Haven't made anything yet, but I'm looking at some interesting things that I could do with it. I'm glad you could find this, I really didn't tell anyone that this was up here lol. How selfish of me.... XD
Have fun with next semester's group! :)
and who is the 'we' you kept referring to?
It mainly came down to money. Being a school project, I wanted to make it as cheap as I could. The only money spent on this was for the helmet. If I had done this as a personal project, I totally would've gone all out on it. :)
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