The Wand Company TOS Tricorder is coming!

[2vix]

 

[FANATICO]

If I may Columbo you for a moment……..

So this placement is out in your opinion…..because there’s no room between the main PCB mounted (hypothetically) to the back side of the facia panel and the moire/discs bank right? It’s tight…

But as pictured below without the facial panel, at all ( discarded never to be used again or at least until wand activates the SDMC)….would this not give room for all the main PCB cables to hang towards the back with room to route cables (even extended) in general?

( the connectors as seen are openly accessible)

You and I are thinking in different directions to achieve the same goal……your parallel support is much appreciated.

 

[FANATICO]

Ive been thinking about a way to keep the original LCD display and use the phaser to switch between the normal tricorder UI and my video drive section.

They make adapter boards to convert RGB to HDMI and vice versa. If I knew what was being sent from the microcontroller to the display, I could use these boards and an hdmi splitter to output both to the single display. I made this so I could visualize it better:

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Its a lot of ribbon cables and pcbs and power needs etc. but if it could all fit, then the tricorder would work like normal and also be a raspberry pi that plays Star Trek.

So far it’s been reverse/forward engineering on the fly…..much focus to display content on the LCD.

What was your plan to address and tap into the Audio function to play through the Tricorder speaker and or extended the Audio through Bluetooth to the communicator speaker?

Something to think about Ayyyyyyyyye?

 

[Leinads]

If the lower compartment is going to be used, it would be neat if the electronics or ‘video drive section’ could be hidden within a faux science scanner.

This could even be modular, with different scanners incorporating various electronic functions that could be easily swapped out when needed.

 

[2vix]

If I may Columbo you for a moment……..

If the goal is to hide the main pcb and its cables behind the moire compartment - It CAN be done i think. I'll walk through how I'd do it:

Look here see this small empty area

if I flip the pcb upside down and backwards from how I have it in the earlier pic, the wire connector ports fit nicely in that empty area and there's probably enough room to connect the wires, which could then exit the moire compartment via the cable passage on the aluminum side piece or down through the roof of the lower compartment.

You end up with this:

Now the pcb board is almost recessed below the aluminum side plates, and the back door just about closes without touching... except for the MicroSD slot. It sticks up a wee bit, but I think if someone went this far with it, then a bit of hex-pattern removal would almost for sure allow the door to close.

 

[2vix]

If the lower compartment is going to be used, it would be neat if the electronics or ‘video drive section’ could be hidden within a faux science scanner.

This could even be modular, with different scanners incorporating various electronic functions that could be easily swapped out when needed.


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If the Video Drive Section components can be small enough, It would be cool to have them contained inside a hollow 3d printed scanner-case

 

[2vix]

I cant believe it but I actually found the 2 pcbs I would need to make the tricorder display work as a single monitor for the tricorder UI and the video drive.

1 RGB888 to HDMI converter

2 HDMI to RGB888 converter

 

[Leinads]

We know what FANATICO will be secretly watching…

 

[FANATICO]

And now from left field…

 

[FANATICO]

We know what FANATICO will be secretly watching…

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Cheezit!! Your on to me…..

 

[FANATICO]

I cant believe it but I actually found the 2 pcbs I would need to make the tricorder display work as a single monitor for the tricorder UI and the video drive.

1 RGB888 to HDMI converter
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2 HDMI to RGB888 converter
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Ha! Let’s see a new block diagram with picture components….

 

[2vix]

So far it’s been reverse/forward engineering on the fly…..much focus to display content on the LCD.

What was your plan to address and tap into the Audio function to play through the Tricorder speaker and or extended the Audio through Bluetooth to the communicator speaker?

This one's easy, I think.
Since the Pi has Bluetooth, the audio will just play from the Communicator once I pair it to the Pi. Done.
For the tricorder, I have to give its speaker the ability to play from Bluetooth just like the Communicator.
So check out this bite sized little board:

All I think I need to do is splice the tricorders 2 speaker wires into one of the RCA ports on it, power it, and connect it just like the Communicator. I think this little pcb will fit in beside the moire motor, which is right where the speaker and its 2 wires are located

Originally i was like "NO. Without the communicator YOU GET NO SOUND." because i wanted this unholy trinity to NEED the communicator just like i wanted it to NEED the phaser to 'hit play' so to speak. But then the more i thought about it i realized that when this project is complete i will probably have the tricorder on my desk on one side of my monitor and the communicator on the other side, so i can have it playing while im doing stuff on the computer. So having audio coming from the left and right like 2 speakers on a desk seems better ya?

 

[FANATICO]

This one's easy, I think.
Since the Pi has Bluetooth, the audio will just play from the Communicator once I pair it to the Pi. Done.
For the tricorder, I have to give its speaker the ability to play from Bluetooth just like the Communicator.
So check out this bite sized little board:
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All I think I need to do is splice the tricorders 2 speaker wires into one of the RCA ports on it, power it, and connect it just like the Communicator. I think this little pcb will fit in beside the moire motor, which is right where the speaker and its 2 wires are located
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Originally i was like "NO. Without the communicator YOU GET NO SOUND." because i wanted this unholy trinity to NEED the communicator just like i wanted it to NEED the phaser to 'hit play' so to speak. But then the more i thought about it i realized that when this project is complete i will probably have the tricorder on my desk on one side of my monitor and the communicator on the other side, so i can have it playing while im doing stuff on the computer. So having audio coming from the left and right like 2 speakers on a desk seems better ya?

Ya ……