The MkVII Tricorders By now, you would have known that I am a little obsessed with post MkVII Tricorders from the Star Trek:The Next Generation. Although this is just a plot device, it was the folding clamshell design which go to me. Imagine a small compact device which unfolds to reveal its internal controls and […]
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20250705 The Phosphor LED
One of the things that irks me during the design of the Playmates Toys MkVIII Tricorder or the actual replica, is that I cannot get uniform lighting on the four ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA & DELTA indicators. I can use SMD LEDs, push it deeper by a few milimeters and stick a diffuser in the front. […]
20240911 Tricorders on Display
And so, the two gmsprops’s Tricorder boards are now mounted inside the Ikea’s Hovsta Photo Frame. It is a very simple exercise but ti still took me decades. I do not see myself ever building the beautifully casted Roddenberry.com Endgame Tricorder. As for the MkVII, I do have a few Playmates Toys which I might […]
20240910 Showing off the TR-580 aka MkVII part. 01
This would be the second gmprops (aka Gerhard Mros) Tricorder Electronics that I have and would like to preserve. I bought my first from him in the early 2010’s but during a local Malaysian SciFi Prop display, it developed legs and wandered off. I was compensated with a cheap version of the 2009 JJPrise version […]
Protected: 20231018 The Revised Sensor Board
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