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Tricorder project brings the fabled devices into existence
Whether or not you love Star Trek we’d bet you know what a Tricorder is. The handheld device capable of gathering information about the environment around you, or taking health diagnostics about an...
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Sci-Fi Contest Roundup: Star Trek
Ah yes, how could we miss Star Trek? To be honest, we’re surprised there aren’t more entries of Star Trek related projects in our Sci-Fi Contest! Star Fleet Communicator Badge There’s actually no info...
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THP Entry: The Improved Open Source Tricorder
Since [Gene Roddenberry] traveled back in time from the 23rd century, the idea of a small, portable device has wound its way through the social consciousness, eventually turning into things like...
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The Hackaday Prize: The Hacker Behind The First Tricorder
Smartphones are the most common expression of [Gene Roddneberry]‘s dream of a small device packed with sensors, but so far, the suite of sensors in the latest and greatest smartphone are only used to...
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Who Will Win the Hackaday Prize? Judging Begins Tonight
It’s been a long road for each of the five finalists; but after tonight they can breathe easy. The last judging round of the 2014 Hackaday Prize begins at 11:50pm PDT. Each finalist must finish...
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Hackaday Prize Entry: A Medical Tricorder
We have padds, fusion power plants are less than 50 years away, and we’re working on impulse drives. We’re all working very hard to make the Star Trek galaxy a reality, but there’s one thing missing:...
View ArticleAsk Hackaday: How Does This Air Particle Sensor Work?
The hardware coming out of [Dr. Peter Jansen]’s lab is the craziest stuff you can imagine. He’s built a CT scanner out of plywood, and an MRI machine out of many, many turns of enamel wire. Perhaps his...
View ArticleI’m A Tricorder, Not A Doctor, Jim!
Machine learning and automated technologies are poised to disrupt employment in many industries — looking at you autonomous vehicles — and medicine is not immune to this encroachment. The Qualcomm...
View ArticlePiCorder: Raspberry Pi Stands in for Stone Knives and Bearskins
In a classic episode of Star Trek, Spock attempts to get data from a tricorder while stuck in the 1930s using what he described as “stone knives and bearskins.” In reality, he used vacuum tubes,...
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Building a Tricorder Prop Worthy of Mr Spock
We’ve all been there. You want to assemble a proper Star Trek: The Original Series landing party prop set, but the TOS tricorders you can find on the market are little more than overpriced toys....
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Arduino Heart Rate Monitor Has Star Trek Chic
Building a real-life version of the Star Trek tricorder has been the goal of engineers and hackers alike since the first time Dr McCoy complained about being asked to work outside of his job...
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CBS Announces Functional Tricorder Replica for 2021
It’s taken 54 years, but soon, you’ll finally be able to buy a fully-functional version of the tricorder from Star Trek. Announced on the official website for the legendary sci-fi franchise, the...
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Raspberry Pi Makes a Practical Tricorder
What do you get when you add a thermal camera, a software-defined radio dongle, and a battery to a Raspberry Pi? If you are [saveitforparts] you make a tricorder for sniffing radio signals and viewing...
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Hackaday Links: April 11, 2021
Bad news, Martian helicopter fans: Ingenuity, the autonomous helicopter that Perseverance birthed onto the Martian surface a few days ago, will not be taking the first powered, controlled flight on...
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Tightly Packed Raspberry Pi Tricorder Impresses
We’ll say upfront that we don’t have nearly as much information about this 3D printed Star Trek: The Next Generation tricorder as we’d like. But from the image galleries [Himmelen] has posted we know...
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TR-109 Raspberry Picorder 2 Really Nails The Star Trek Aesthetic
Star Trek famously showed its medical staff using a multifunctional device by the name of the tricorder. While no such devices are regularly used by current medical staff in this timeline, the concept...
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Improving an Already Phenomenal Star Trek Prop
When Star Trek: Voyager was in the development phase, concept art was created for a new style of tricorder to be used by the crew of the titular starship. But as it often the case with a younger...
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Tricorder Tutorial isn’t Just for Starfleet Cadets
For many of us, the most difficult aspect of a project comes when it’s time to document the thing. Did you take enough pictures? Did you remember all the little details that it took to put it together?...
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A Guide to Field Stripping Your Voyager Tricorder
For the last few years, [Mangy_Dog] has been working on what is easily the most technically and aesthetically impressive Star Trek tricorder prop the world has ever seen. With each new version of the...
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