The team is gonna go get set up in the forest because soon as night falls,
the hunt is on!
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to see in different spectrums of light and to see in the dark.
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We showed a brief
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Now before we get to the forest hunt let me show you its features.
It has four main parts: the helmet, the control panel on the wrist,
the laser cube and the backpack which has the computer inside.
The helmet is a
DoT approved motorcycle helmet that I bought off eBay customized to look like
a predator helmet.
It has three camera modules mounted to the outside of the
helmet and on the inside is a pair of cinemizer fpv goggles that project a
1080p image for the user to see.
Now the control panel on the wrist is actually
from an elevator, it's an elevator button panel. It has four buttons, the first
button makes the iconic predator clicking noise which is great for
creeping people out.
The second and third button cycle through the different
camera modes available, one to go forwards and one to go back but if you
double tap the back button it will actually return to normal vision.
Finally we have the last button which turns on or off the recording.
The control panel is wired into the backpack where it's connected to our Jetson Xavier NX
computer which combines all the camera feeds and does the image processing to
send it to the display inside the helmet.
The cool thing is we're barely
scratching the surface of what this lil' computer can do, which means we'll be
able to upgrade this project and future HUD projects significantly.
Finally we have our laser cube.
This is a 1 watt RGB laser projector that can simulate
predator laser scanning and with its built-in targeting system pop balloons.
Let me show you.
Alright my eyes are shut, do your worst laser.
Whoo, pretty cool right?
But the best part of this project is obviously the thermal
vision let's take a quick look at each mode.
Alright so the current mode is
our normal vision which is just that standard 1080p camera up here as you can
see it says normal vision on your heads-up display and if we press the
forward button it switches to the thermal overlay.
So this one's actually pretty cool
we're using both the thermal camera and that 1080p signal that I just
talked about and combining them to have a higher resolution image.
As you can see the thermal camera
is a bit slower, it only has a frame rate of about nine
versus 60 for the main camera but it gives you a very nice heat signature to see
if someone's warm.
The next mode is infrared.
Now it looks pretty crappy here
but that's because we have lights on so let's turn lights off.
As you can see the
image is rather grainy but you can actually make me out on the display and
that's because we have a series of IR LEDs up here when I bring my hand close
so you can kind of see it looks like a flashlight so now we can see in the dark.
The next mode is the IR camera plus thermal overlay, so similar to the
other one I showed you this uses the IR camera as a base and the thermal overlay
to provide additional information for the user.
Now we're getting into the fun stuff
the actual thermal vision modes, so this is a pure thermal image from the
FLIR sensor that we're using, now one of the neat things about this is it can
also track residual heat so watch this.
As you can see my handprint is on the wall,
we show this in the first video tracking someone in bare feet up a staircase.
Now the remaining for thermal modes are all basically the same they're
just using a different color palette to help contrast what you're seeing.
The first one is red and yellow so you can really see I'm pretty hot right?
Next up we have a nice grayscale one I actually quite like this one.
Then there's a similar one with a tinge of red, this is actually probably by far
my favorite the blue and white.
And finally we also have green and yellow filter.
All in all we have ten different vision modes in this
predator helmet, allowing you to contrast your prey on the hunt.
So, that's how it works
now let's see if it actually works in a real-life scenario, the team is
gonna go get set up in the forest but as soon as night falls the hunt is on.
I wish them good luck but they'll need more than that.
Narrator: Five men.
One forest.
One night.
One Predator.
Who will survive?
MANHUNT.
Gotta stay hydrated!
I've been challenged by my boss to survive in one of the
harshest environments known to man the Canadian forest.
My strategy is to stay hydrated,
build some traps and hide out the night.
Now we just gotta find some building materials.
Alright so James challenged me to survive in the forest
for a night super easy I've been backcountry camping for years.
This will be easy.
If Predator (1987) taught us anything,
it's that mud is my best friend.
However it's been pretty dry lately not a lot of rain,
muds gonna be hard to come by...
You hear that?
That's water.
And where there's water there's mud.
So my boss told me to come to the forest for some reason I think it's kind of BS because I
have a life and I don't want to spend the night here but I guess I have to
survive and to do that I'll hide which...
Hey, this might be a good spot.
Hide?!
I don't need to hide, I built the helmet I can beat the helmet.
I don't know what everybody's getting so worked up about.
I mean I saw Bogdan drinking his own piss.
It was me in the helmet maybe they have something to
worry about, but James he can't find his way out of a wet paper bag never mind-
So I have brought a Mylar blanket and not only does it keep me warm it's also
going to reflect all the IR light making me virtually invisible.
I saw Bogdan drink his own piss.
Well I hope you guys enjoyed that, we had a ton of fun filming it was on our first
tries at doing kind of a short film.
Huge props to our new production manager Josh
who mudded himself up for the role reliving his 1987 fantasy of being
Arnold Schwarzenegger and make sure you subscribe to our vlog channel because we
post behind the scenes content all the time on projects just like this one and
you get to see what actually goes into making these videos.
Thanks for watching guys!
This is what we do while we camp.