About this project
Please watch video for a full detailed explanation on how to get your BadjoSuit, Badjo Arm, or Badjo Helmet!
The Badjo suit is a fully functional non lethal high-tech exoskeleton suit. With the suit the user can design and create a suit that will best reflect his or her own personal tastes and creativity. Every suit comes with a its own set of basic features but on top of that the user can get very specific to what exactly they want their suit to do or look like.
Again, like we said, this kickstarter is for the hightech non lethal version of the suit. All funding received from this kickstarter will go towards the non-lethal versions of the suit, so we can make molds, get the workspace, and start selling them.
When we do start selling the non-lethal BadjoSuits, the profit from that will go into continuing our research for the firefighter versions of the suit.
Non-Lethal BadjoSuit:
A full body, high-tech wearable suit designed to reflect the users’ creativity and imagination. All users will be able to customize their suit’s appearance during order. They will be able to specify what each part of the suit will do.
Features:
Appearance/Gadgets/Customization:
The greatest feature of the suit is its customizability. We will work with the user to help decide and design what will be on the suit and how it will be made. For example. Say you like lions and you want a lion themed suit. We can make you a "power-ranger like" helmet (where your visor is where the lions mouth opens), with a lions mane that changes colors! Not only that but we can put a roaring lions head on your chest that emits blue fog from its mouth, make your fingers have claws that light up and make the entire suit covered in fur (yea it doesn't have to look so robotic). Also, we can make it so when you say "Activate drill" parts on your forearm will come together encasing your hand and start spinning like a drill! We can even have steam come out of certain parts with pressure gauges moving back and forth for you steampunk fans!
The BackDoor System:
Another one of the greatest features of the suit is its Backdoor system. With the press of a button, the back of the suit will open up, allowing the user to simply step inside as the suit closes on top of them. This will allow the user access to the suit in a matter of seconds! This feature comes standard in every suit!
Temperature Control:
Our suits have a Temperature control system that will either keep you cool, or keep you warm. Yup, Both. This feature comes standard in every suit!
Weight:
The weight of a full suit can be anywhere from 25lbs-35lbs depending on what the user decides he or she wants on it. It is also very easy to move in!
Badjo Arms/Helmets
BadjoSuits out of your budget? Badjo-T Industries offers Badjo Arms, and Helmets. Each of these items are just as customizable as the suits. Voice control functions, gesture controlled functions etc...
Voice control:
Say the words "Charizard go!" And his head lunges forward covering the users hand.
Gesture control:
System detects your hand position and activates programmed features you decide to integrate!
The SteamPunk Arm is a Badjo Arm designed after the popular genre of science fiction which typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.
You can customize your helmets to great detail. Here is a little Gif if the helmet of the Mark 3 (faceless light suit) during prototyping.
Ordering Process:
Our ordering process allows us to perfect the look and functions of your suit. Before building the suit we will send you one final concept art of how it will look before we start building.
*Note: All BadjoSuits come with a stand
After designs are agreed upon, we will start building your suit, and when done, ship your suit to you.
Companies and organizations who have acknowledge us and awarded us!
Future: Paintball:
Imagine a suit you could design for paintball. Where you and your team each have specific roles during combat. Depending on where you get hit and how hard, a life bar on your HUD will slowly deplete until you are out of the game.
Examples:
Marauders will be made heavier but will take less damage so the user will be able to step into the middle of the battlefield and take on multiple opponents.
The leader will have a video game style map on their HUD revealing the positions of all the enemies and be able to coordinate attacks.
You will be able to communicate with all your teammates through your helmet. However the start up costs to finish these versions of the Badjo Suit will require more funding. Thus, making it a stretch goal.
We are aiming to sell non lethal versions of the BadjoSuit in order to continue funding our firefighter (and other future applications) research.
FireFighter
Fire Fighter Technology has not made any significant improvements in the last 100 years. We are aiming to change this. We are currently working with the Salisbury Fire Department in designing a Badjo Suit for FireFighters. However, research in technology this hightech is very expensive. After the KickStarter, the profit from selling non-lethal and Paintball versions of the Badjo Suit will go into funding our firefighter research in order to get a firefighter version of the Badjo Suit on the field. Things we are looking into involve:
Thermal Vision: A controllable thermal vision HUD to allows firefighters to see through the smoke.
Cooling system: A system to keep Fire Fighters cool that is strong enough to handle the heat of a burning building.
Oxygen system: Oxygen system offering firefighters a better breathing system while in burning buildings.
Back Door system adapted to Fire Fighters: To give firefighters easy access to their suits in a matter of seconds that will also keep unwanted gases from entering the suit.
What we will be working on in the future:
We aim to eventually integrate an HUD display that will allow fire fighters to switch in and out of a thermal imaging display. We also aim to eventually design and integrate into the suit an oxygen system that will allow fire fighters to have a breathing apparatus.
We also aim to design a very tight, and impenetrable backdoor system that will allow fire fights to quickly enter and exit their suits, but not allow smoke in the suits, and insulated .
Risks and challenges
Production may be the biggest risk because all of the parts are custom-designed by our engineers and are made to be put together in a very precise way. So creating the molds and manufacturing the components can be very expensive.
We will do everything we can to make suits look as close to what the user wants as possible but because of the skeleton of the suit there is a limit to how closely we can make our suits look like fictional characters who already exist (mainly the very slim ones). We will however, send concept art to the user before we start building until the design is a design that we both agree on.
As with all technology, first generations may sometimes come with small problems. All of our systems are checked and work properly but technical malfunctions are always a possibility.
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