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Now expecting some neurohelmets designs from you.
Thinking on it. I have a few designs but I have to consider budget and what's on hand. I've recently been thinking about building a helmet to enhance my geek immersion since I went around looking at materials to fit a tight budget. I even have a broken headset I can try to incorporate into it!
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One of the things I saw on your drafts was the health monitor. If this is IS, the monitors are attached via medical patches, much like we do nowadays to monitor the EKG's. These are all plugged in to the command console/chair, and not the vest or helmet itself.
Noted. A wire can always be run through the vest to the console/char. Think of it as a way to keep the wires from tangling and strangling the pilot.
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As for the helmet, I'm not really fond of the fighter-pilot version. To sleek really. Neurohelmets are supposed to be large and bulky, and I'll have to look but they're supposed to make your shoulders hurt after having it sit on them for a while, I've always imagined something completely ridiculous like the helmet Dr. McCoy was wearing in Back to the Future when he was trying to read Marty's mind in 1955. Ridiculous, but for some reason that imagery is what I've always thought of for neurohelmets. Obviously some sort of screen would need to be placed on it to project the 360 degree view in a 160 degree arc. Meh.
I have some thumbnails for the bucket style neural helmets but the designs are being taken a different direction given what there is to work with. The second and third pilots were originally going to have bucket helmets actually. I was thinking welding helmets would make a good base for those. As for visual projection, the small blocks at the top of the visor are meant to represent a projection system. Other thumbnails I have have closer similarities in appearance to existing aircraft pilot projection systems -basically they're tapered cones that stick out of the helmet a bit.
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I had to stop for now. I left my physical sketchbook at home and it had some notes and thumbs I need to reference. I'll pick it up tomorrow or the day after, depending on how busy things get.
Notes:
-This pilot is set up in such a way that she's prepared for the possibility of having to bail out. She wears a vest that holds a few practical items to address a few possible problems.
-Planning on giving her motorcycle style boots with the idea that they would have a small cooling system in them.
-Above the boots, she'll have a set of shin and knee guards typically worn by baseball catchers. If you have to leave in a hurry, you're not going far if you bang up your legs!
-The cooling vest this pilot wears is integrated into a torso body stocking and has a little less protection than the other designs. The collar is side split and secured with velcro'd medium thickness leather straps to provide support while the rear half of the piece is a double thick layer of leather to provide support to the neck. It's possible (even recommended) to wear additional bracing around the neck but pilots may not want to for a variety of reasons.
-There's a throat mic clipped to the collar with a second clip on the vest to allow some slack.
-The vest secures at the shoulders and sides. Sides have 3 straps, one tab from the back forward, and two from the front to back.
-Drag handle on the back of the vest
-From the observer's PoV, top left pocket is first aid, below that is a holder for a PDA which doubles as a cooling vest controller -there's a small window to see part of the screen, below that is a larger pocket that holds a physical map (I may switch this to the right side). Right top is a velcro info block (In this case name and unit). There's a shoulder holster but as you might notice only the pistol's grip is visible.
Thanks again for the feedback, folks!
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Edited by Creepy, 30 December 2012 - 03:26 AM.
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