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 on this project yet, but we have to admit — it’s a pretty cool (albeit nerdy) concept. They want to fit a Bluetooth headset with a loudspeaker into a Star Fleet Communicator Badge, activated by tapping on it gently.
Just don’t wear a red shirt with it…
Star Trek: The Mirror Universe Pinball Machine
This ones a really cool hack. A team of four have taken a 1978 Bally Star Trek Pinball machine, and converted it into a Star Trek Mirror Universe Pinball machine based on the TOS episode Mirror, Mirror where Kirk and his crew are transported to a parallel (mirrored) universe!
Notable features include the custom CNC machined table with custom artwork, a Nixie tube score board, and that they’ve made the design open source! Minus copyrighted artwork of course…
JJ Tricorder
The JJ Tricorder, named after its team [Julia] and [Jaromir] is planned out to look just like the SR-580 type Tricorder — except its going to be backed with 21st century technology.
The main goal of the project is to have it be able to detect and analyse electromagnetic, geographic and environmental parameters. There’s lots of inspiration for it, like the now-open-source Berkeley Tricorder or the Tricorder Project itself!
Still haven’t entered the contest? Don’t worry — there’s still time for you to put an awesome Sci-Fi project together to win some crazy cool prizes! It just needs to be done and documented by April 29, 2014!
On the Tricorder front, two of my multimeters are sort of similiar in design. I have a Metrix MTX3282 and a MTX3283.
http://www.conrad-electronic.co.uk/medias/global/ce/1000_1999/1200/1220/1220/122070_RB_00_FB.EPS_1000.jpg
Are these available for sale? Is there somewhere I can go for additional specs and/or pictures? Like what it looks like closed? Has any of the sounds or functions been changed from a standard multimeter?
The comm-badge is TNG-era, so wearing a red shirt is a safe bet. Stay away from gold! Captain Kirk used a flip-phone.
Actually uniform colors changed as the service evolved. So the ones worn by the Security people certainly were not red. And the comm used by Jim wasn’t a flip-phone, if anything it resembled a walkie-talkie in that shape.
The comm badge contains those features and a locator beacon.
Definitely want one of those bluetooth com badges.
That pinball machine is cool, but we need to see more videos, but I do have one question, could the functionality of the cat be replaced with an arduino?
I hear you. Was planning on a better video the weekend after next just after I setup the machine at the Austin Mini-Maker Faire on May 3rd.