Kris Kersey is an embedded software developer with over 20 years of experience, an educational YouTuber with 30,000+ subscribers, and a lifelong lover of comics and cosplay.
These interests and expertise came together in his first-ever project using the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics when he created a fully functional superhero helmet as portrayed in one of his favorite Marvel Comic films, Iron Man.
The 3D-printed helmet comes complete with computer-vision capabilities in a heads-up display (HUD) that presents information wherever the user’s looking, just like in the movie.
The NVIDIA Jetson platform processes data from two cameras — one by each eye slot — that see what the helmet’s wearer is seeing. The HUD then presents information including the current temperature, humidity, altitude and GPS location. It can also classify what’s in the…
