Comms Helmet ?

Has anyone come across a helmet that is capable of transmitting via
bluetooth or radio ?

I'm sure I saw an offtheshelf version for megabuck with internal cooling
systems in some mag.

Anyone else see that ?

If no such animal exists would anyone be interested in throwing in their 2
cents worth so we can have one made.


Troy Ellis
www.i-central.com.au

 

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Wots the staff rate on a HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5550 ?? and will it
accept MS Autoroute 2004 software. I'm reasonably sure it will match
up with most GPS receivers.

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because all these greedy mongrels will be queueing up for a cheeeeep
deal.

hehehehe

Kind regards
Dave Milligan

 

first thing is this is my first post to this group so be easy on me

I haven't seen a Bluetooth setup for helmet around but if you can find model
with headphones connected to transmission device via wire length or plug
your cooking with gas. that way you can mount transmission hub with Velcro
on outside of helmet & run headphone wires into helmet. most helmet padding
will pull away around straps so you can place headphones inside with small
amount of glue.

there is radio wave setups but you asked about Bluetooth which is better
because headset will just switch between mobile & pda signals without having
to use switch over comm device.

 

Closest thing I've seen is a 'bluetooth headset' that
had an earpiece at the end of wire, about 30-40cm
away from the magic box bit, that could be clipped
onto clothing, etc, etc (as opposed to one of those
self-contained on-the-ear things that probably
wouldn't fit in a helmet).

The aforesaid headset was a made-in-Singapore
jobbie at a trade show, looking for local dealers.

I stopped shopping for one of them when I got a
Nokia 6600 which has hands free built in - can have
a convo on the telephone without needing to take the
helmet off. (I'm not recommending the nokia 6600,
the hands free is probably it's only redeeming
feature. get a 6100 instead, it sucks less)

G

 

Aah, a subject close to my heart. Been looking to haq this project for
some time now, with earlier attempts restricted by the high cost of
Bluetooth gear (I can handle fsking up something worth $100, but at $250 a
headset when I was looking at them, no way). Problems with modern
bluetooth shitzniz is they're mono channel, no stereo. You also need to
build in a cutoff, so that when the UHF radio cuts in, the AM/FM radio
falls silent. The next problem is batteries: unless you want to be
constantly going through LiON button batteries, more than likely you'll
need an external battery pack to power the helmet, which means an external
wire. Another option is an 802.11x/bluetooth unit (older iPaq or
something) on the bike, but again rpblems arise because you need to power
it (for 802.11x - pretty much just Bluetooth on steroids - power
consumption is pretty high). But you still have the
Bluetooth-in-the-helmet-chewing-through-the-batteries problem. I'd love to
make one, but I've settled with a homebrew wired system that is
functional, cheap to repair when things stuff up, and rock solid.I've
hooked the AM/FM and UHF radios up to it, but the next project is getting
the phone fed in on the circuit somehow. I'm thinking it's just a matter
of haqing a hands-free unit.

As an aside, I built an MP3 player for the car out of an old 486DX I had
sitting around. The system would boot when I started the car, connect
wirelessly with the server inside the house, dump an MP3 playlist, and
play. I wanted to get an iPaq to allow song selection, but I rooted the
harddisk pretty severely. Not sure they're meant to bounce around in the
back of a car, so next attempt will need to be a solid-state system. I
also tried an 802.11b wireless connection between the bike and the house.
It was good while the bike was stationary up to about 3km LOS (a 5dBi omni
on the bike and an 8dBi omni at home) but shit while the bike was moving.
I had a webcam mounted on the bike, attempting to stream stuff back to the
house. Again it was shite while the bike was moving, OK when the bike was
stopped.

- sanbar of the willing-to-try-a-bluetooth-haq

 

/me waits for the "shit yer, give it a shot" post of encouragement ...
-sanbar