Hey guys,
this is my first post, so I'll try to do my best.
I'm from Germany, 24 years old and an electrician guy. Currently I'm for two semesters in the USA (CA) so I only got the chance to plan everything on the computer.
As my first project I wanted to start low, so I designed a working Cortana data chip.
But I know you all wanna see pics:
Details:
At first, it's designed to work as a normal SD card for every camera out there, but unfortunately I don't found such a small battery. So it's a little bit bigger than a SD card.
It's got a battery in it with the necessary electronic to charge it every time it's connected to a PC or camera (5V over the USB port).
It has about 28 LEDs in it. 10 blue ones for the shiny ring in the middle, 10 Green one at the connector (the tiny holes) to mimic a functional optical data transfer and 8 LEDs to display the charging status of the battery while connected. These are placed at the 4 hole (2 left and 2 on the right side).
All the electronic is controlled with a Atmel Mega8 microcontroller.
When you disconnect the data chip from a helmet it runs for about 2 hours and does all the fancy bling bling stuff the one from the game does. That was the main goal.
Inside as you can see on the last pic is a tiny PCB which holds all the necessary electronics to charge, light up or transfer the data.
The blue brick is the battery and the big black thing is a 32GB micro SD card.
The size is:
46.73x25.14x3.54mm
1.84" x 0.99" x 0.14"
I'm planing in using it as a real data chip for an helmet camera in the spartan helmet. For this I need to build at least a adapter for the USB port.
The material will be alumide or high strenght plastic. The model will be 3D printed by a company. For the both sides of the housing in plastic it's only 14$ and in alumide 70$!! So I'll test first the plastic
If you see anything which should be corrected, just name it.
So I hope your satisfied
Ben
this is my first post, so I'll try to do my best.
I'm from Germany, 24 years old and an electrician guy. Currently I'm for two semesters in the USA (CA) so I only got the chance to plan everything on the computer.
As my first project I wanted to start low, so I designed a working Cortana data chip.
But I know you all wanna see pics:
Details:
At first, it's designed to work as a normal SD card for every camera out there, but unfortunately I don't found such a small battery. So it's a little bit bigger than a SD card.
It's got a battery in it with the necessary electronic to charge it every time it's connected to a PC or camera (5V over the USB port).
It has about 28 LEDs in it. 10 blue ones for the shiny ring in the middle, 10 Green one at the connector (the tiny holes) to mimic a functional optical data transfer and 8 LEDs to display the charging status of the battery while connected. These are placed at the 4 hole (2 left and 2 on the right side).
All the electronic is controlled with a Atmel Mega8 microcontroller.
When you disconnect the data chip from a helmet it runs for about 2 hours and does all the fancy bling bling stuff the one from the game does. That was the main goal.
Inside as you can see on the last pic is a tiny PCB which holds all the necessary electronics to charge, light up or transfer the data.
The blue brick is the battery and the big black thing is a 32GB micro SD card.
The size is:
46.73x25.14x3.54mm
1.84" x 0.99" x 0.14"
I'm planing in using it as a real data chip for an helmet camera in the spartan helmet. For this I need to build at least a adapter for the USB port.
The material will be alumide or high strenght plastic. The model will be 3D printed by a company. For the both sides of the housing in plastic it's only 14$ and in alumide 70$!! So I'll test first the plastic
If you see anything which should be corrected, just name it.
So I hope your satisfied
Ben
