Put this on, press this button.
Holy crap Predator heat vision.
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In this episode Make It Real we're building
Predators heat vision and shoulder mounted laser cannon.
The reason I'm excited about this project is because I actually tried to do something similar
years ago and it didn't work out so great.
It's still warm look at that!
I was limited by the technology of my time
and didn't have many resources or money to buy better parts,
but now we have this awesome facility, a great team of engineers, and a healthy R&D budget.
Which means we can finally do this project justice.
Plus I got this awesome
replica Predator motorcycle helmet that we'll be using as the base of the project.
One of my issues years ago was I was limited to using plug-and-play hardware.
Which severely limits our ability to integrate the components but
now we have a secret weapon.
What's the matter Ben?
Bogdan got you pushing too many pencils?
We've got Ben who's good at programming and electronics.
Ben's a first year engineering student at McMaster University
and he's doing his first official co-op internship with us.
He's been working with us on off for the past few years.
You might remember some of his projects
like the Men in Black Neuralyzer or the Apex Legends Tesla Turret
Well let's get started!
How are we going to give that helmet the ability to see in multiple spectrum's of light?
Just like in the movie.
Well by using a digital camera sensor
we can see things the human eye cannot.
We're gonna be using three different camera modules to achieve this.
The first camera is a standard Raspberry Pi 8 megapixel sensor.
It can capture 1080p images at 60fps nothing special here.
The second camera is actually the exact same sensor
but it's missing an infrared filter which
means it can capture shortwave infrared light allowing you to see in the dark.
We'll be modifying it later and adding a visible light filter so only light it sees is short waved infrared.
Finally we have the most important sensor of all a
FLIR Lepton 3.5 sensor.
This is a thermal imaging sensor that can see heat
signatures known as long wave infrared light.
Which will give us that true Predator like vision.
Now the interesting thing about the sensor is that you can't
actually buy them right now.
You see thermal cameras are now being used to
screen people to see if they have a fever which means FLIR Lepton sensors
are backordered months due to massive new demand in the world.
So how do we get one?
Well luckily we bought one a year ago inside a product.
The FLIR One Pro for smartphones,
and we can just take it apart and remove the sensor.
To combine these cameras together we're gonna be using an NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX.
Which actually has more processing power than the original gen 2 self-driving Tesla module.
Think of it as a Raspberry Pi on steroids.
Finally we'll be using a pair
of Zeiss Cinemizer to display the cameras inside of the helmet.
Now I'm gonna pass
this off to Ben to start programming the software and put it all together.
Now that our software is all done we need to test it with our hardware before
we can install it in the helmet.
Our first camera is the normal vision camera
as this has in the top corner that's overlaid.
When we push the button we get
a sound effect in a transition image and now we're switched to the IR vision camera.
So that will allow us to see in the dark.
When we press the button
one more time we're going to the heat vision plus normal camera.
You hear the predator sound effects that would do you it here in the movie when we hit the
button one more time we're switching to the heat and IR vision now overlayed.
So we will be able to see in the dark and heat vision.
So I'm not quite happy with the
way the image is aligning the thermal, but once everything is installed in the
final helmet I'll be able to fine-tune the alignment and make the image look perfect.
Right now I'm programming a button some when James presses it it
makes the signature predator clicking sound and it makes that of a random
selection of ones that we have on the Jetson.
It's just like the movie. That's awesome.
Now to be creepy.
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This is the new home for the Jetson.
We need to make sure all the ports are accessible.
If you're interested to check out the schematic for this project or any of our others
make sure to check out our circuit diagram on Maker.io
Now that we have the cameras mounted time to install them in the helmet.
So the next step is to get some plastic film in here like a visor so the cameras
blend in better with the helmet.
Yeah we're gonna cut out a hole out for it anyways.
I was actually I was thinking just little dots like drilling a little dots kind of thing.
Another thing is we can make the dots pretty big and you'll still
won't see it.
Now we need to cut the inner visor out.
So you may have noticed and some of the earlier footage
our infrared camera doesn't actually look that special.
That's because it is an infrared sensor but we don't have
anything to filter the light.
So what we have right here is actually a visible light filter.
It blocks all visible light and only lets IR light through.
If you've seen an infrared photo before.
They look really neat and it will actually let us
see kind of in a different spectrum I guess you could say.
So the issue is this is a massive lens,
for a rather tiny camera module.
So we need to cut this down to make it fit on that.
Did I just go through it?
Oh no it worked, it worked.
I should be wearing safety glasses guys.
There we go.
One tiny color filter.
Which will fit perfectly, like so.
Alright it's not pretty but as you can see it works.
We can barely see anything inside right now
but that's because there's not much IR light being produced
by these lights.
You can see the LEDs do emit a bit of IR but if I say shine at my face.
You can kind of see me.
Once we get the IR flashlight that Bogdans working on.
It will be mounted inside the helmet to help light up the scene.
As you can see right now
You can't see too much inside but that's because we don't have a good
eye our light source.
Alright so we have the cameras mounted in the helmet now.
All I have to do is mount our little HDMI breakout board inside here,
and then run all the wires to our backpack.
Which is where the Jetson in over there will go.
So I've cleaned up the inside of the helmet,
and it looks pretty good on the inside.
Now all I have to do
is attach the motorcycle helmet back to it.
Tah-dah!
Oh that's not bad at all.
Well let's go I can't actually see through because this is actually just black tint
So bright lights I can see this,
without my heads-up display.
Alrighty my part is done and as much as
I would love to throw the goggles on inside and try it out.
Unfortunately it's
not set up yet to be a plug-and-play.
So I don't actually know how to run the software just yet
so we're gonna have wait until tomorrow when Ben gets back
and then we'll be able to give us its first test.
Screw it I'm gonna see if I can get to turn on.
Probably not gonna happen though.
It's turning on!
He did not leave a shortcut on the desktop.
Python 3 HUD.Pi?
I think it's going to work.
Huuuuuaaah.
Come on.
Yes!
This is the best project ever.
So this is normal.
Now I got infrared which doesn't
look very good right now but we need to turn the infrared flashlights on first.
Then finally we have thermal.
Now the image is a bit offset right now but we can fix that.
When we're mounting it the camera shifted a bit so we just have to
fix that in software.
Yes!
It's working!
Alright now I can't show you guys what I'm seeing right now
but rest assured.
I am seeing this device in action for the
first time and this is exciting.
Goggles are on.
The helmets not on, oh oh okay.
Alright here we go.
Aw that is so cool.
So tomorrow when the team gets back we'll show you what this actually
looks like while you're wearing it.
Then we just have to modify the laser cube to
make a predator laser cannon on the shoulder.
It'll be good to test.
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Now that the helmets almost done.
It's time for me to start on the shoulder
mounted laser cannon.
This is a laser cube by Wicked Lasers.
It's the most affordable RGB laser projector on the market
and they sent it to us to experiment with.
It's awesome for this project because it has a built in laser
targeting protocols.
We've 3D printed this curved mount so
that it can sit securely on a shoulder.
Now all we have to do is mount it.
Alright well Ben's working on the laser cannon I'm going to start working
on the wrist control module for the Predator helmet.
As you saw before we had
a few buttons to change the modes of the camera,
but that's not very cool.
So we're gonna use this elevator control panel.
I bought these.
Funny story from a surplus
store active surplus in Toronto maybe, eight years ago.
I don't think they exist anymore.
I was just like those are some really nice buttons and we're finally
using them for a project.
I've already taken one apart and we're actually going to paint it black.
We'll leave the buttons silver and then I'm going to mount it to
this wrist brace and we'll be able to have the control panel right on my wrist.
I don't know why it warped.
It's okay.
We can buff that out.
Dark grey or black?
Dark grey
Beep.
Boop.
Beep.
BOOP!
Now that the laser cannon is complete.
Let's test it out.
Three
Two
One
That was awesome! Let's do it again.
Firing!
I can confidently say that everything works.
James is gonna love it.
All that pencil-pushing is worth it.
Man I'm really tired,
time to go home.
Oh my god!
Please! No!
Ian?
Josh?
Bogdan?
Where is everybody?
What the?!
*scream*
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next video we're testing this project for real in the woods!
I'm gonna challenge my team to survive from dusk till dawn.
Versus the Predator.
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Oh god!
Can you spot me?
Oh no! Aaaaaah!