Andreas

Stanford Mechanical Engineering | Building a smart defense helmet

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

New backplate in progress…

So far weight of BMS system cut in half 😌

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

The eyes are nuts on this thing

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

Thought I bricked my Jetson but then literally fixed it by taking the SD card out and blowing on it.

God I love electronics.

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

@Samu_Rye Not the some of the edge AI computations I’m doing

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

This is the part that cracks me up. So many wires when plug in to modify the software

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

I always love the explanation when people walk into my dorm room and just see two huge helmets on my desk.

I really need a workspace.

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

I always love the explanation when people walk into my dorm room and just see two huge helmets on my desk.

I really need a workspace.

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

@ConwayAnderson Yeah, wanna switch to waveguide just can’t find a cheap solution rn.

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

Let’s roll #EagleEye

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

Got a nice depth camera installed. This will give me access to features like anchored AR overlays, 3D mapping, hand gesture recognition, and better object and person tracking.

Also updated the board a little (don’t worry I’ll cut down the wiring)

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

The wiring exposure has been cut down immensely by either lining the components within the inner shell or offloading them to a piece on the chest rig. I’ve also dropped the head weight by 80%!!

I’ve got a depth camera + IMUs otw to gain the ability to pin things in real space.

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

After a week break with family, finally getting back to work on improving the hardware.

Have a lot of things planned for the next few weeks on the BMS and computing housing.

As well as cutting down these annoying wires.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Didn't know Maduro was a VR fan!

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

V1 was def way too bulky and not practical.

V2 has cut down a lot of fluff and prioritized space.

Though, I still have a special place in my heart for the first version out of an old lacrosse helmet

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

Beginning to rework the helmet design to properly hide the wiring.

Also looking into implementing connection to drones. I had my start in engineering building UAVs for the SUAS Air Force competition back in 2021.

Might be time to dust off the boxes 👀

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

I’m pretty bullish on defense stocks for 2026

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

Before I had the Ops-Core Helmet, I stripped an old lacrosse helmet to fit in the VR components and mount the devices.

Pretty cool to see the journey of versions from the very start in early October.

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

Little sneak peak of the thermal vision and general HUD on the helmet.

Note that the black parts show up as pass-through pixels on the AR glasses. That allows a Picture-in-Picture overlay for the thermal feed.

Working on improving the vertical lines to get a better picture.

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

Gotta admit the full VR version looks pretty sick. Now I just gotta work on latency and distortion.

It’s not perfect, but it’s a good start

[Andreas @andreas_temper]

@RejectedNPC @A1Anduril Check out my TikTok I have the entire build posted with software demo. Can also see on my GitHub under the HVX repository. Cheers!