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    Science Tricorder, for real, looking for input

    Gene Roddenberry intentionally did not copyright the word "Tricorder" and hoped that people would make real ones, however you can't make it look like any CBS tricorders from any of it's productions. Most of the trademarks at uspto.gov refer to a "toy" or a "medical device" both of which it is...
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    Science Tricorder, for real, looking for input

    I do have tentative plans for production. There is a lot of work going from prototype to production so I have 3 Phases. Phase 1: Finish designing and testing the prototype along with designing and prototyping some of the sensor packages. Phase 2: Create an LLC company and crowd fund equity to...
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    Science Tricorder, for real, looking for input

    Battery power is always an issue. This original tablet could barely run 4 hours in reduced CPU and backlight mode with no USB devices plugged into it. One of the first upgrades was to add batteries to it inside the electronics enclosure on the back, which are connected to the internal batteries...
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    Science Tricorder, for real, looking for input

    There is a scintillator in the Helium Ion Fluorescence Spectrometer, it converts the back-scattered particles into the visible light range which is then displayed as a spectrum. The spectrum characteristics can then be mapped to known elements.
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    Science Tricorder, for real, looking for input

    Hello Everyone. Yes this is a real working Science Tricorder prototype and I'm looking for input on it's design and functionality. Please critique away. Optical Spectrometer of a tomato, note the amount of IR on the right and Blue and UV on the left that we normally don't preserve. Sorry...
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