You know, we wouldn’t be that surprised if aliens or ghosts show up for real before this year is out. If paranormal becomes part of the new normal, it might be nice to have a PKE meter that can detect spirits and help get a head start on figuring out what they want from us.
Yes, that’s right — instead of just lighting up whenever ghosts are near, [starscream205]’s meter goes the extra yard and translates spiritual energy into English words that scroll across the LED matrix. Inside is a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and a sense HAT, which takes spatial and environmental readings and assigns different words based on the results.
Now [starscream205] can go fearlessly into the night, guided by the night vision camera on the end, and watch for ghosts on the screen. Instead of a typical Pi-compatible screen, this is from a car back-up camera system and has been modified to work with the Pi.
We’ve seen a few PKE meters around here before, but they usually do things such as detect radiation. It’s nice to see one that’s faithful to the original purpose.
It’s the ultimate do-nothing box! Now if we could come up with a use for it…
But seriously, does taking a picture of a ghost capture its soul?
We all know if you eat the ghost, you take it’s powers.
What next, Hackaday? Healing crystals? Pyramid power?
why not a healing crystal ? it´s only need to work in real life, just it …
Placebo is 20% effective right, so get 10 different crystals and you’re not only in perfect health, so is anyone standing next to you.
I have a whole ESD bag full of various crystals and oscillators. Why do I still get colds and seasonal allergies?
Obviously, the ESD bag blocks the healing frequencies. Pfff..
I wonder if that ESD bag could protect against 5G Death Rays.
Do they come in HC-49 or other SMT packages? :P
I have an ill crystal in my parts box, it oscillates on wrong frequency. Can you heal it?
Seriously, useless device but looks kinda cool.
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/grinding-radio-crystals.573210/
You can tell who clicked through to the OP and who didn’t.
It’s a rebuild from the Ghostbusters cartoon series.
Hmmm, could also be turned into an “alien detector”.
In the film “They Live” at one point the aliens use the PKE meter prop as a human detector or something.
Please save this garbage for April 1.
It might be that they have rejected your reality and substituted their own.
I find it very interesting that there is a huge display in the device, a very powerful computing device inside, but the important info is shown on a tiny 8×8 LED matrix ?!?! I hope I’m wrong though.
But where are the antenna’s that swing out when it is used, this and the lights make it look like the meter form the movie. I just don’t get it, as attempts were made to make it look like the device from the cartoon… but important things are missing (the large knobs on the side and the antennas). Considering that a 3D printer was used, why not print these parts to.
I’m confused.
Regarding the effectiveness of the project/device, good luck.