If Star Trek taught us anything, it’s clearly that we’re not quite in the future yet. Case in point: androids are not supposed to be little flecks of printed circuits with wires and jacks sprouting off them. Androids are supposed to be gorgeous fembots in polyester kimonos with beehive hairdos, designed to do our bidding and controlled by flashing, beeping, serial number necklaces.
Not willing to wait till the 23rd century for this glorious day, [Peter Walsh] designed and built his own android amulet prop from the original series episode “I, Mudd.” There’s a clip below if you need a refresher on this particularly notable 1967 episode, but the gist is that the Enterprise crew is kidnapped by advanced yet simple-minded androids that can be defeated by liberal doses of illogic and overacting.
The androids’ amulets indicate when they BSOD by flashing and beeping. [Peter]’s amulet is a faithful reproduction done up in laser-cut acrylic with LEDs and a driver from a headphone. The leads for the amulet go to a small control box with a battery pack and the disappointing kind of Android, and a palmed microswitch allows you to indicate your current state of confusion.
You’ll be sure to be the hit of any con with this one, although how to make smoke come out of your head is left as an exercise for the reader. Or if you’d prefer a more sophisticated wearable from The Next Generation, check out this polished and professional communicator badge. Both the amulet and the communicator were entries in the Hackaday Sci-Fi contest.
I imagine a small coil with E-Juice(from Vaporizers) hidden in a small compartment or in the necklace could create the smoke you are looking for.
I think it’s mineral oil that they use in smoke machines.
Usually it’s just pure vegetable glycerin if you want to get a lot of “smoke”. It’s really cheap and works pretty well.
Fog juice is propylene glycol
I never noticed the continuity error before with the gal’s heads.
Same here, I was looking at their legs, too.
:o)
This was my project.
There’s a closeup of one of the amulets in the original episode, and if you look closely you can see silver and gold
speaker wires threaded through the chains and soldered onto the eye hooks.
Another continuity thing, but probably OK for a TV show where you can’t see close details.
https://hackaday.io/project/19996/gallery#3b9326c9e5104a906d45e327fa08b235
For multiple reasons, that was one of the funnier episodes.
I thought “A Piece Of The Action” was funnier.
“Check?” “Right”
” LIBERAL doses of ILLOGIC and OVERACTING.” .. caps emphasized to highlight a very true observation of liberals!
Much as I tend to agree with you, this really isn’t the correct forum for such observations.
anyone who thinks any one ideology is practically workable suffer from those issues.
they are IDEALS, the word itself almost defines them as impossible to attain, there isn’t a singular ideology i know of that will work on its own.
Okay. Conservative doses of illogic and overacting. Though I would just call it theatrical, as all things tended to be when Roger Carmel was on stage.
And that’s what passes for political debate in this day and age. People thinking it’s like supporting football teams. This is why we’re doomed, this is why bad things happen. Because people are just so fucking stupid. If anyone’s working on a way of increasing human intelligence, I’ve got ten quid with your name on it.
There’s a pill for that.
“It’s clearly not the future yet.”
But it’s going to be the future soon.
https://youtu.be/NDzMY5GiSrI
The future isn´t anymore what it used to be. Those costumes and props are plain ridiculous
We will never be in the future. We are doomed to be forever in the present.
The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
Many people in congress refined the technology to stay firmly in the past though.
Once Musk has his neural link thing ready the hackers can just hack some girls, no rushing need for fembots I guess.