Like all of you, I’ve been working form home for the past two months, enjoying plenty of mandatory family time … and I’ve been going a little stir crazy too. Soooo, inspired by a Crazy Hat Day at work at Kinaxis, I’ve decided to make a Social Distancing Helmet!
Social Distancing Helmet 2.0, to be precise, because it is totally high-tech, minus the generous amount of wires and rubber bands, Hey, I was going for a crazy geek look. It’s an actual construction helmet with an Arduino controller, an ultrasonic distance sensor, a micro servo to make it look around, and a speaker to make it yell at you if you come too close to someone else.
I’ve decided to auction the helmet off an donate the proceeds to The Ottawa Food Bank. I will match the first $100 raised by the auction.
Longer, 3 minute version of the video showing more info of the idea for the helmet and how it was put together.
