Tricorders are REAL!!!

I blame this one on not getting any sleep on the road… Found this on the Net the other night…

For you Sensor Folks

The Star Trek tricorder has become a reality, thanks to the hobby project of a cognitive science researcher. Dr. Peter Jansen has developed a handheld mobile computing device that has a number of sophisticated embedded sensors. The device is modeled after the distinctive design of the 24th-century tricorder.

He began working on the project in 2007 and aims to make it easy for others to reproduce his designs. He has made complete schematics for two of his four models available under the terms of the TAPR non-commercial hardware license. The underlying source code of the device’s software environment is available under the GPL.Β 

Pretty Β neat, and I can ‘see’ a couple of folks I know building one of these in their spare time…


HERE is the link if you’re truly bored! πŸ™‚

Comments

Tricorders are REAL!!! — 14 Comments

  1. I need a tricorder.

    I also need to be ‘beamed up’ when things on this planet begin to suck too much…and move on to the next planet. Perhaps a ‘pleasure planet’ like Risa (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Risa). Am I revealing myself as a trekkie?

  2. MC- I’m ‘sure’ Mr. B could build you one!

    Agirl- same here… sigh

    LL- Nope, not a bit πŸ™‚

    Rev/WSF- Concur πŸ™‚

    Tim- Not under THIS administration… dammit

    Fuzzy- Amen to that!

    Anne- That too!

  3. Love the comments here! πŸ˜€ Especially agirlandhergun’s, ’cause I feel the same way.

    My question is- were the Science Fiction writers that intuitive or did they know something the general public didn’t OR has is it just that folks wanted to catch up to their imaginations?

  4. Snigs- I think it’s because the SF writers gave their minds free reign, and weren’t constrained by ‘reality’. Now there are folks trying to make those dreams a reality (think Lasers among other things)…

  5. Uhhh, Don and Old NFO, you might want to reconsider Ceti Alpha V. Windy desert environment dominated by poisonous craylon gas. Not to mention the possibility of bumping into Khan. Urk! Ceti eel burrowing into ear canal? Do *not* want!