It is just one of the astounding projects documented by Swiss architect Manuel Herz, who has spent the last few years researching the architecture of African independence with his team at ETH University in Zurich.
He was 27 when he began the project, now, 45 years later, aged 72, he has completed the last volume of his astounding undertaking.
The project is astounding when you know that it was built by one developer working (and I would guess sleeping very little) over four months.
While the yellow helmet is only one of three (he made two more colors with the hope of supporting multiplayer scenarios), the possibilities of such a device are astounding, especially since the project is open-source and therefore free for development and innovation.
Attending final presentations as an external critic, it has been striking quite how far students are marshalled under the prescriptive dogma of their tutors in a lot of schools, producing projects with astounding graphic flair, but with a tenuous grip on reality, and often little sign of a critical position.
Performing material whose music borders on kitsch and whose lyrics and story suggest a verbose soap opera, Miss Peters nevertheless projects an astounding emotional generosity and conviction.
Volume two skids through the 19th century to the present, but to appreciate the astounding ambition of Fukuyama's project one must reach back to volume one, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (2011).
He's had his detractors - notably over the wobbly bridge incident - but is there any doubt he's still setting the pace with projects like the astounding Millau Viaduct?
The F35 projects at an astounding 2560×1600, the first projector to produce that level of resolution.
With the widespread use of the internet, website development simplified to drag-and-drop actions and ecommerce industry growth projected at an astounding 8.7%; the promise of online selling has lured millions to launch their ecommerce businesses.
