I recently got an Adafruit 10-DOF IMU to handle all the head tracking and movement data for the "horizon lock" effect seen in the IM Mark II display. Combining this with the sample code and a few modifications, I managed to get something along the lines of this:
Which doesn't look too shabby at all, at least for a proof-of-concept. After fiddling about with calibration settings and how to display data on-screen in Processing (I'm still somewhat new to it), I managed to get a slightly more informative display up and running. I also added a "horizon lock", since the real Mk II showed that on it's maiden flight.
Still a long way from the original. But still, this is the work of just one girl (who has a full-time job and a girlfriend), and I'm still aiming to get as many of the systems seen int eh IM movies (particularly the initial Mark II test sequence, below) as functional as realistically possible.
It remains to be seen how much of this will be able to carry over to the RPi - if I can at least get the OBJ loader to work, I may be able to simply black out everything else and "fake" keyframing with the opacity switch. Remains to be seen. For now, though, I'm off to model a real HUD model, since that last one was crappy alpha at best.
Cheers,
~Lexikitty
