90's Comic Spider-Man Spider-Tracers (possibly functional?)

[The New Blood]

After seeing someone selling Spider-Tracers on facebook it inspired me to 3D model my own.

The inspiration is from the 90's Amazing Spider-Man comics (Bagley's of course) and the image I used for reference was this.


So after a few days using Skectchup (with a ton of plugins) managed to create this


It's not perfect but its turned out better than expected when working with Sketchup. Any thoughts?

 

[Transhuman325]

Re: 90's Comic Spider-Man Spider-Tracers

I'd love to see where this goes! If you were to make an .STL or .OBJ file, that would be AMAZING!!

 

[The New Blood]

Re: 90's Comic Spider-Man Spider-Tracers

I'd love to see where this goes! If you were to make an .STL or .OBJ file, that would be AMAZING!!

I can do that as well as other formats.

 

[Transhuman325]

Re: 90's Comic Spider-Man Spider-Tracers

I can do that as well as other formats.

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[The New Blood]

Is it possible to make actual functioning spider-tracers? Not sure if the technology is there yet, just wondering it was possible and if so how it can be done. it would be cool to put a tracer on my glasses or ipod and easily find em if I lost em lol

 

[frentraken]

These new spark electron's are the smallest GSM capable micro's I've seen https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ce=store&utm_medium=button&utm_campaign=spark add a gps module which can be pretty small. The killer will be a battery, so I guess it depends on how big this will actually be when printed. Less functional, but easier would be something like this https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2143723879/hiro-bluetooth-thing-finder?ref=nav_search there are dozens of BLE devices that work like this, some even on the market already.

 

[RiotJavelinDX]

These new spark electron's are the smallest GSM capable micro's I've seen https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ce=store&utm_medium=button&utm_campaign=spark add a gps module which can be pretty small. The killer will be a battery, so I guess it depends on how big this will actually be when printed. Less functional, but easier would be something like this https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2143723879/hiro-bluetooth-thing-finder?ref=nav_search there are dozens of BLE devices that work like this, some even on the market already.

Here is picture of their tracking module.


Pretty large compared to a Spider Tracker

 

[frentraken]

That one is, but you can get those GPS modules broken out to wires instead of a board, and if you connect things properly instead of using a huge breadboard size would be not much bigger than the electron in width and length, then maybe 3 times as tall. But like I said battery is gonna kill it most likely.

 

[Bandit]

What about the micro chips they put in dogs so they can track them? Just a suggestion as well,

 

[The New Blood]

What about the micro chips they put in dogs so they can track them? Just a suggestion as well,

link to those? I wanna use a chip that can give you the location of something at a computer or an app

 

[Bandit]

I actually didn't think about my last post. Microchipping animals is used for identification not GPS location. Sorry

 

[frentraken]

Ok so ready made products I would go with a TrackR which uses BLE to find the position of your item. These things are tiny so should fit in any size spider tracker, but fairly limited range. I did find this GPS tracker buts it's bigger though I wouldn't think too big if you were to remove the case and build it right into the spider traker.

 

[jarradfx]

Try the TILE? Maybe bust it open and use the tech inside...

 

[Transhuman325]

Here are a few links that should help you out:

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2013/12/01/gadgets-track-valuables/

http://sellout.woot.com/offers/tracker-bluetooth-tracking-device-3

The second link I think would be more practical due to its size. You can print out the hollow version of the spider-tracer and insert that bad boy in, and you should be good to go.