Aliens M314 Motion Tracker Replica

[MachinaExUmbra]

I totally forgot to post pictures of this last year. I finally completed my Motion Tracker build with all original parts. Figured I'd jump on the Adam Savage band wagon since he just posted his One Day Build of this. Mine took a lot longer than one day, this was well over a year of researching reference photos from the original props and searching tirelessly for some of the harder to find pieces.

(Side note, nothing was 3D printed (besides the pump adapter), my CR10 enclosure is just a nice place to take pictures.)

In the end I cherry-picked details I liked from both the hero prop with the working screen and the units used for walking shots.

And thanks to some amazing folks on here I was able to make it "work"

 

[PAULH]

That's a beauty !!

 

[Paul H Edd]

That is stunning.

 

[NicolasBsst]

Very nice prop !

How did you manage to get a working screen and LEDs blinking ?

Can you share the inside of you hama viewer with some pics ? :3

 

[MachinaExUmbra]

I’ll have to dig around when I get back home to see if I have any build pics, but the thread linked below is where I ended up working through the electronics.

raspberry pi aliens motion tracker

Hi all, I've been working for a long time now to create a viable motion tracker prop for the raspberry pi. I'm happy enough with my results to share that with you now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzfXKLisqew&t=67s The good news is that if you fancy making one I'm sharing the source code...

www.therpf.com

Everything was a tight squeeze for me, but I remember being impressed enough with the performance of the second gen Pi Zero W units to swap it out. The first generation Zero was a little sluggish and a full size Pi just wouldn’t fit comfortably.

 

[MachinaExUmbra]

I found some videos on YouTube that jogged my memory. I only have the display electronics and the two LEDs in the Hama viewfinder. Basically what’s in the screenshot below.

This video shows how all the wires for the display and the LEDs are running out of the conduit from the back of the viewfinder. I think I stripped an old HDMI cable out of its sleeve then ran my own silicone wires through that.

Some builds have you putting the Pi and everything in the viewfinder but I opted to put the “brains” in the drill body so that the viewfinder body was mostly empty, allowing me to keep some distance between the LCD screen and the glass of the viewfinder to get a good magnification effect.

 

[MachinaExUmbra]

Very nice prop !

How did you manage to get a working screen and LEDs blinking ?

Can you share the inside of you hama viewer with some pics ? :3

Finally back home, as promised here's a couple pics of the guts inside the viewfinder.