One of the requirements of the sensor helmet will be to confine the action camera. The 808-16 camera that I’m currently using sits on top of the helmet with a USB cable tethered from it to a LiPoly pack on the back of the helmet. My first helmet had this USB cable on the outside of the shell. The second and third generation helmets had the cable routed inside, but the camera and battery pack were still on the outside….
One item with the various sensors that I’ll have to pay close attention to is the microphone placement. I’ve got a huge amount of video with the sound awash with wind noise. When I first started using the video cameras, I thought it would be great to have some narrative. I had made some initial attempts, but it typically resulted in noise. Also, There are things the mic could have captured that the lens could not. Having that data space…
The storage device for the sensor helmet will be the Sparkfun Openlog. This is a simple serial feed sniffer that drops the data it reads on to a micro SD chip. I had a chance to try some test sensor data read from the pro mini. The pro mini let me choose a software serial port to output to. Once that was setup, I was ready to connect the Openlog and start it. It really is that simple. The program…