tailgunner30uk
Active Member
To Tullfan81, Absolutely you have as good a chance as anyone else. It isn't the quality of the artwork, rather the idea behind it. I wish you luck.
DR Who-Sonic Design Competition (winners announced)
- Thread starter Rassilon
- Start date
greatwazoo42
Master Member
Hmmm....
:facepalm Yep. I see it too now. :thumbsup
Great design. I can see implementations of many different design features in there!
tullfan81, you have NOTHING to be worried about. Your design is very cool with a nice description. Wish you the best of luck!
Just a few days left folks! Get those entries in!
ArtySmartie
New Member
Here is my entry(I couldn't resist old school colouring!:confused).
Sorry about the weird colours behind the 'crystal' I drew something but didn't like it so I used tippex to 'erase' it. That tippex is now in the bin:angry. By the way, the ring sort thing twists for different settings. The wood bit has only one window thing. Apart from that everything is the same on the other side. And the shiny bits are metal. Oh, and there are two buttons. It's sort of Tennant-ish crossed with steampunk. More new series than classic series. That's it I guess. Good luck to everyone participating!:thumbsup
Sorry about the weird colours behind the 'crystal' I drew something but didn't like it so I used tippex to 'erase' it. That tippex is now in the bin:angry. By the way, the ring sort thing twists for different settings. The wood bit has only one window thing. Apart from that everything is the same on the other side. And the shiny bits are metal. Oh, and there are two buttons. It's sort of Tennant-ish crossed with steampunk. More new series than classic series. That's it I guess. Good luck to everyone participating!:thumbsup
ArtySmartie
New Member
Oh, I forgot to say the crystal is transparent. The story: the crystal is a shard of the largest White point star ever to fall to gallifrey. It is the power source of the sonic.
Loosewire
Member
Hi Everyone,
this is my entry.
I did the basic design last year based around the fluted screwdriver-style handle. at the rear end of the handle is a loop for a lanyard so the doctor doesn't lose the sonic and at the rear on the opposite side to the button there is a removable brass hook to help with grip.
The thumb button incorporates the graphics in Jon Pertwee's opening titles and when pressed will turn on the electronics. In the stories, if it is pressed by an unrecognised appendage then it will send a homing beacon back to the TARDIS.
The 'cage' contains a sphere of dark energy which fires electrons through the neck and copper neck coils into the crystal in the emitter head which produces the correct frequency. There will be a dim light in the sphere which will come on when the button is pressed, possibly the sphere would revolve slowly if possible.
The neck in metallic silver and the copper wire coil is a reminiscent of Pertwee's sonic.
The emitter housing is also fluted for cooling and the blue beam passes through a tinted blue lens.
Thanks for reading, I hope you like it.
If anyone else is unsure of entering or waiting around then ENTER! JOIN IN AND HAVE FUN BUT DON'T MISS THE DEADLINE!!!
this is my entry.
I did the basic design last year based around the fluted screwdriver-style handle. at the rear end of the handle is a loop for a lanyard so the doctor doesn't lose the sonic and at the rear on the opposite side to the button there is a removable brass hook to help with grip.
The thumb button incorporates the graphics in Jon Pertwee's opening titles and when pressed will turn on the electronics. In the stories, if it is pressed by an unrecognised appendage then it will send a homing beacon back to the TARDIS.
The 'cage' contains a sphere of dark energy which fires electrons through the neck and copper neck coils into the crystal in the emitter head which produces the correct frequency. There will be a dim light in the sphere which will come on when the button is pressed, possibly the sphere would revolve slowly if possible.
The neck in metallic silver and the copper wire coil is a reminiscent of Pertwee's sonic.
The emitter housing is also fluted for cooling and the blue beam passes through a tinted blue lens.
Thanks for reading, I hope you like it.
If anyone else is unsure of entering or waiting around then ENTER! JOIN IN AND HAVE FUN BUT DON'T MISS THE DEADLINE!!!
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greatwazoo42
Master Member
I'm seeing red X's.
greatwazoo42
Master Member
Now they work.
Agreed! Now, it's become a bit of a contest tradition here with deadlines but I'll be ending this at 12am forum time at the END of August 1st. Yes, Midnight August first is actually at the start of the day but some people have trouble with that so have your entry in by the end of Aug 1st and you still qualify!
Edits to your entry post are also allowed until then. Any edits AFTER the deadline will render your entry void. If there's any explanation or extra imagery you'd like to add to your post do it now!
I see them fine now.
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& here's my effort.... Please excuse the cut & paste (real cut & paste no less!) of the mock-up, but have no idea how to render it as a computer image, so produced this image via photos of tubes etc & cut/shaded it to (hopefully) work & give you a flavour of the finished version.
OK, whats it all about? Well, here goes...
Now, I've never been a fan of point & pretend... I mean think, Sonics. Even as a kid I got frustrated when Pertwee & Baker didn't have setting on the classic prop, so with mine hopefully I have rectified that.
There are two dials at the end of the Sonic, both with 6 settings (echoing the 6 sides of the console) that can be used in a variety of combinations. Maxim is 36 with neck retracted & another 36 with it extended. That's a whopping 72 settings!
The neck is spring loaded & released by a heavy touch of the button inside of the raised edged ID thumb panel. Normal pressure Switches the Sonic on in both modes. The button fits into the cradle of the panel so to look invisible.
The main body section is telescopic, if you pull it open it reveals a mini read-out, touch screen on one side, & a speaker grills with copper button on the other.
The speaker is for the communicator. In S6 the Doctor uses a gadget to talk to his companions a few times, I like this idea & have included in this Sonic. Something the 3rd Doctor could have done with in his UNIT days! to activate it, press the neck back into position, pull open the main body to reveal the speaker, extend the aerial, press the copper on/off button, turn the Sonic upside-down & talk into the Red emitter... & there you have it, a Sonic communicator!
To over-hear a transmission hold down the copper button for 3 seconds. Once the communicator is switched on, in either mode, the dials disconnect from their usual functions & can now be used to tune in & boost the Sonic's communicator frequency. (OK so make that 73 uses for the dials).
The Aerial: This is located under the 2nd dial. Pull it out for communication. In its extended mode it can perform a variety of tasks, such as when pressed against a safe, or computer it will download info or combinations. Or for a full medical scan, stick it in someone's ear. All of these downloads & reports are then transferred onto the mini screen inside the telescopic section, which is read landscape (not held up vertically like 11th Doctor does on his current model).
Now as the Dr likes to tinker with things, I have designed this sonic to come apart in 4 sections so he can add & upgrade sections whenever he likes (don't know how practical this would be in the real life tooling of the piece though).
Section one unscrews at the top collar, so he can change the neck & emitter. Section 2 unscrews at the main body before the mini speakers/LED screen & by unscrewing the brass ring, this releases the telescopic speaker/screen section. (to separate it from the copper ring it would have to be pushed through it). Section 3 unscrews at the copper ring to help release the tube as above. The final section is after the dials & this is were to small aerial is housed. On the diagram I have marked them as ABC&D.
Oh yeah one last thing on the functions, this Sonic Screwdriver also does not do wood!
The look is heavily influenced by the Classic Sonic & Anti-matter detector as seen in The Three Doctors. To complete the 'classic look', I imagine it as highly polished or a chrome type of finish, similar to the 2nd Drs Screwdriver. (See picture of my cobbled together build) However if you look closely you can see minor influences from all the versions of the Sonic to date. The dials echo the end section of 9&10th, the copper bits a nod to the 8th & the extension & readouts of 11th, but really this is the type of sonic that I'd like hence all the extra settings etc.
Various versions of this has been kicking about in my head for years now & this competition has finally got me off my butt & on to the drawing-board, so thanks for that.
Hope you all like it & if you have any questions please do ask!.
OK, whats it all about? Well, here goes...
Now, I've never been a fan of point & pretend... I mean think, Sonics.
Even as a kid I got frustrated when Pertwee & Baker didn't have setting on the classic prop, so with mine hopefully I have rectified that. There are two dials at the end of the Sonic, both with 6 settings (echoing the 6 sides of the console) that can be used in a variety of combinations. Maxim is 36 with neck retracted & another 36 with it extended. That's a whopping 72 settings!
The neck is spring loaded & released by a heavy touch of the button inside of the raised edged ID thumb panel. Normal pressure Switches the Sonic on in both modes. The button fits into the cradle of the panel so to look invisible.
The main body section is telescopic, if you pull it open it reveals a mini read-out, touch screen on one side, & a speaker grills with copper button on the other.
The speaker is for the communicator. In S6 the Doctor uses a gadget to talk to his companions a few times, I like this idea & have included in this Sonic. Something the 3rd Doctor could have done with in his UNIT days! to activate it, press the neck back into position, pull open the main body to reveal the speaker, extend the aerial, press the copper on/off button, turn the Sonic upside-down & talk into the Red emitter... & there you have it, a Sonic communicator!
To over-hear a transmission hold down the copper button for 3 seconds. Once the communicator is switched on, in either mode, the dials disconnect from their usual functions & can now be used to tune in & boost the Sonic's communicator frequency. (OK so make that 73 uses for the dials).
The Aerial: This is located under the 2nd dial. Pull it out for communication. In its extended mode it can perform a variety of tasks, such as when pressed against a safe, or computer it will download info or combinations. Or for a full medical scan, stick it in someone's ear. All of these downloads & reports are then transferred onto the mini screen inside the telescopic section, which is read landscape (not held up vertically like 11th Doctor does on his current model).
Now as the Dr likes to tinker with things, I have designed this sonic to come apart in 4 sections so he can add & upgrade sections whenever he likes (don't know how practical this would be in the real life tooling of the piece though).
Section one unscrews at the top collar, so he can change the neck & emitter. Section 2 unscrews at the main body before the mini speakers/LED screen & by unscrewing the brass ring, this releases the telescopic speaker/screen section. (to separate it from the copper ring it would have to be pushed through it). Section 3 unscrews at the copper ring to help release the tube as above. The final section is after the dials & this is were to small aerial is housed. On the diagram I have marked them as ABC&D.
Oh yeah one last thing on the functions, this Sonic Screwdriver also does not do wood!
The look is heavily influenced by the Classic Sonic & Anti-matter detector as seen in The Three Doctors. To complete the 'classic look', I imagine it as highly polished or a chrome type of finish, similar to the 2nd Drs Screwdriver. (See picture of my cobbled together build) However if you look closely you can see minor influences from all the versions of the Sonic to date. The dials echo the end section of 9&10th, the copper bits a nod to the 8th & the extension & readouts of 11th, but really this is the type of sonic that I'd like hence all the extra settings etc.
Various versions of this has been kicking about in my head for years now & this competition has finally got me off my butt & on to the drawing-board, so thanks for that.
Hope you all like it & if you have any questions please do ask!.
Yet another great entry. :thumbsup
I've always wanted to see a Sonic Screwdriver that actually looked like a screwdriver. So with that in mind, I went to cobble something of my own.
My favorite Sonic designs are Baker's and Smith's and, put it in with a regular screwdriver, I think this is something I could see a Doctor walk around with. If not, I'll gladly walk around with it.
I don't want to get into how it works and all that stuff; they don't do it in the show, so I won't do it here.
My favorite Sonic designs are Baker's and Smith's and, put it in with a regular screwdriver, I think this is something I could see a Doctor walk around with. If not, I'll gladly walk around with it.
I don't want to get into how it works and all that stuff; they don't do it in the show, so I won't do it here.
Very cool.
Do me a favour though and edit your first post to add the pic there. When I'm compiling the entries I'll just be quoting people's entry posts so everything you'd like the judges to see should be there!
Good luck! :thumbsup
jazzygeoffery
Well-Known Member
Blast! I thought I'd be the first one to have a fluted handle on my sonic :behave
Here is my design, a combination of most of the doctor's sonics, and a screwdriver from Earth to keep it less conspicuous. Highlights of the design include the classic "Halo" from Mk II-IV, bullet-shaped emitter crystal (a combination of the Mk II-IV's and mMk V-VI's emitters), a neural relay/ scanner screen (because it always irritated me when the Doctors would get readings without a screen) The screen is visible in both closed and open positions. There are 4 buttons (design borrowed from River Song's screwdriver) around a cylindrical section of the handle, and the best part is... THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE MICRO BUTTONS FROM EARTH The Diamond knurling comes from the Eleventh Doctor's sonic, to aid the 12th in twisting the knob at the bottom.
One interesting feature is the the knob on the end acts as an acoustic resonator, and the emitter acts as an amplifier, so when the base is held to a surface, the sonic becomes sort of an electronic stethoscope :love
The sonic is aluminum with brass buttons, and a crackle finish on the section with buttons (please excuse the absence of one of my drawing :facepalm)
I'd like to thank Rubbertoe, Greatwazoo42, and Cyberman for holding this contest, and giving me, and everyone else to exercise their creativity, as well as Rassilon for giving us incentive :lol and Orange_Blend for moderating the contest
Good luck everyone!
P.S. The fluting on the handle, the "cage" over the scanner, and the emitter head should all be rotated together so that the screen is less obstructed, I just couldn't draw that
Here is my design, a combination of most of the doctor's sonics, and a screwdriver from Earth to keep it less conspicuous. Highlights of the design include the classic "Halo" from Mk II-IV, bullet-shaped emitter crystal (a combination of the Mk II-IV's and mMk V-VI's emitters), a neural relay/ scanner screen (because it always irritated me when the Doctors would get readings without a screen) The screen is visible in both closed and open positions. There are 4 buttons (design borrowed from River Song's screwdriver) around a cylindrical section of the handle, and the best part is... THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE MICRO BUTTONS FROM EARTH
The Diamond knurling comes from the Eleventh Doctor's sonic, to aid the 12th in twisting the knob at the bottom.One interesting feature is the the knob on the end acts as an acoustic resonator, and the emitter acts as an amplifier, so when the base is held to a surface, the sonic becomes sort of an electronic stethoscope :love
The sonic is aluminum with brass buttons, and a crackle finish on the section with buttons (please excuse the absence of one of my drawing :facepalm)
I'd like to thank Rubbertoe, Greatwazoo42, and Cyberman for holding this contest, and giving me, and everyone else to exercise their creativity, as well as Rassilon for giving us incentive :lol and Orange_Blend for moderating the contest
Good luck everyone!
P.S. The fluting on the handle, the "cage" over the scanner, and the emitter head should all be rotated together so that the screen is less obstructed, I just couldn't draw that
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NTBBCPD
Well-Known Member
Done, I have included all of the important info into Post #84
Good Luck to Everyone.
Edward
