2023 Author: Bryan Walter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 22:24
American engineer Allen Pan has designed a helmet that allows you to control the direction of a person's movement using a remote control from a radio-controlled toy car. A video demonstrating the work of the helmet was published on the inventor's YouTube channel.
In his project, Allen Pan used a model of Professor X's helmet from the fantasy universe of Marvel comics and spare parts from a radio-controlled car: an H-bridge, a current limiter and a remote control. The assembled circuit controls the supply of current to the electrodes, which are attached to the ears and act on the vestibular roots of the vestibular cochlear nerves (galvanic vestibular stimulation). A person in a helmet, when current is applied to the electrodes, senses changes in the position of the body in space and tries to maintain balance, walking in the direction in which the operator with the control panel directs him.
To demonstrate the work of the helmet, the inventor first tested the operation of the device on himself, and then on volunteers. In the published video, people in helmets walk an impromptu slalom track made of plastic cups and walk down a busy street in a blindfold, and also test a helmet with their eyes open. At the same time, most of the time the scheme works and the person in the helmet really moves in the direction in which the operator directs him.
Allen Peng previously collected other devices associated with various fantasy universes. He created a working model of Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, and Captain America's flying shield from the Marvel comics universe, and also constructed a lightsaber from Star Wars, where a jet of burning fuel plays the role of a blade in a weapon.
