The Wand Company TOS Tricorder is coming!

[asalaw]

It would be cool but since I already have the original on one monitor while simultaneously playing the remastered on the other monitor while “roughing it” in the mountains, I’m ok just letting my tricorder be just a tricorder… for now.
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That's lovely--I rarely watch the original version anymore, since they had so much blue spill on the ship owing to the tiny stage they shot it on and having it too close to the blue screen, the model's always full of holes. Not to mention the football-sized grain all over it from the optical printing and the mile-thick matte lines. Modern digital compositing has really spoiled me. So it's the remastered show for me with rare exceptions.

 

[FANATICO]

Looking at the ARM and LCD connector on the PCB…I was able to find just 2 ARM pin-outs to the LCD connector ….the rest are as previously mentioned buried and routed within the PCB layers.

I found the VDD trace from pin 62 of the ARM to pin 1 of the LCD connector.

I found G2 (Green from RGB signals) going from the ARM pin 42 to pin 22 of the LCD connector.

That’s about it (for now) …those are the only direct traces I can find on the top layer of the PCB associated with the LCD.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Now with two in possession, the only difference is the moire pattern seems to turn the other direction on the second one. I imagine that is just the outer insert is rotated 180 from the other. Which is surprisingly loose as others have discovered.

 

[Trooper_trent]

Now with two in possession, the only difference is the moire pattern seems to turn the other direction on the second one. I imagine that is just the outer insert is rotated 180 from the other. Which is surprisingly loose as others have discovered.

Is there a correct way for it to spin since the screen used one never did? lol

 

[Trooper_trent]

That's lovely--I rarely watch the original version anymore, since they had so much blue spill on the ship owing to the tiny stage they shot it on and having it too close to the blue screen, the model's always full of holes. Not to mention the football-sized grain all over it from the optical printing and the mile-thick matte lines. Modern digital compositing has really spoiled me. So it's the remastered show for me with rare exceptions.

I go back and forth. Something about the sacrilege of replacing the filming model with CG just pulls me out of the vintage feeling every time. But I do like the cleaned up look of the remasters. I wish they did that without replacing the effects and ship model.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Is there a correct way for it to spin since the screen used one never did? lol

This is a tough question. LOL If this kind of moire was seen anywhere else on the show actually moving, but it never was to my knowledge.
But I guess you can spin the outer window until it goes the direction you want.

https://imgur.com/5Fx7X0b

 

[Leinads]

This is a tough question. LOL If this kind of moire was seen anywhere else on the show actually moving, but it never was to my knowledge.
But I guess you can spin the outer window until it goes the direction you want.

https://imgur.com/5Fx7X0b

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[FANATICO]

This is a tough question. LOL If this kind of moire was seen anywhere else on the show actually moving, but it never was to my knowledge.
But I guess you can spin the outer window until it goes the direction you want.

At least you didn’t get one of these…….

 

[Leinads]

At least you didn’t get one of these…….

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Win a free tricorder?

 

[CessnaDriver]

At least you didn’t get one of these…….

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"First rule of dabo is, watch the wheel, not the girl."

 

[asalaw]

I go back and forth. Something about the sacrilege of replacing the filming model with CG just pulls me out of the vintage feeling every time. But I do like the cleaned up look of the remasters. I wish they did that without replacing the effects and ship model.

I would love it if they could have done that, but my recollection is they couldn't find the camera negatives of the VFX elements, so they went with the CGI.

 

[FANATICO]

Sometimes I worry our in-depth chats about micro controllers and display screen ribbon cables …….

As previously…. I’m not much of a Software/Firmware type, I lean Hardware…so I think I’m at a point short of tearing into my own tric….to do pin to pin continuity checks.

You seem to be the software/ firmware type imo. The risk of bricking is possible. You already have the Fcopy.

Why not try the engineering STM32H750VBT6 development board?

They are cheap and different ones if you search.

Here’s an example and what it features and comes with…some even with a color display mounted.

Tech Specs

• STM32H750VBT6 Target MCU
• 44×2 PinHeaders (76 GPIO Pins)
• 480MHz Cortex-M7 CPU
• 128KB ROM
• 1MB RAM
• 22x Timers
• 3x 16-Bit ADC
• 2x 12-Bit DAC
• 2x Comparators, 2x OpAmps
• HW Cryptographic Accelerators
• 4x I2C, 4x USART, 6x SPI/I2S, 2x SDIO, 2x USB OTG, 2x CAN, 1x Ethernet, 1x DCMI

OnBoard Features

• USB Type-C
• User LED (PE3)
• User Key (PC13)
• BOOT0 Key
• RESET Key
• 25MHz HSE
• SD Card Slot
• 0.96″ TFT LCD Display
• DCMI (Digital Camera Interface)
• 8MB QSPI Flash Memory (W25Q64)
• 8MB SPI Flash Memory (W25Q64)

You can experiment and use what you’ve learned …here’s a website, to start with…… LINK

The ST detailed reference manual at the link…is the real deal….an extensive section on the LTDC!


Here’s a short vid on the development board…..

Link

 

[Leinads]

As previously…. I’m not much of a Software/Firmware type, I lean Hardware…so I think I’m at a point short of tearing into my own tric….to do pin to pin continuity checks.

You seem to be the software/ firmware type imo. The risk of bricking is possible. You already have the Fcopy.

Why not try the engineering STM32H750VBT6 development board?

They are cheap and different ones if you search.

Here’s an example and what it features and comes with…some even with a display mounted.

Tech Specs

• STM32H750VBT6 Target MCU
• 44×2 PinHeaders (76 GPIO Pins)
• 480MHz Cortex-M7 CPU
• 128KB ROM
• 1MB RAM
• 22x Timers
• 3x 16-Bit ADC
• 2x 12-Bit DAC
• 2x Comparators, 2x OpAmps
• HW Cryptographic Accelerators
• 4x I2C, 4x USART, 6x SPI/I2S, 2x SDIO, 2x USB OTG, 2x CAN, 1x Ethernet, 1x DCMI

OnBoard Features

• USB Type-C
• User LED (PE3)
• User Key (PC13)
• BOOT0 Key
• RESET Key
• 25MHz HSE
• SD Card Slot
• 0.96″ TFT LCD Display
• DCMI (Digital Camera Interface)
• 8MB QSPI Flash Memory (W25Q64)
• 8MB SPI Flash Memory (W25Q64)

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You can experiment…here’s a website, to start with…… LINK

The ST detailed reference manual at the link…is the real deal….an extensive section on the LTCD!

Remember when Mac clones were a thing? I’ve got a weird feeling we’re heading toward some kind of “Tri-clone”, and I doubt Wand Co. will be thrilled. You can almost smell the cease and desist letters brewing.

 

[FANATICO]

Remember when Mac clones were a thing? I’ve got a weird feeling we’re heading toward some kind of “Tri-clone”, and I doubt Wand Co. will be thrilled. You can almost smell the cease and desist letters brewing.

As for cease and desist…..they’ll have to canvas the entire WWW….to see who is trying to get in. That’s a lot of lawyer billable hours. I can’t see them trying to sue someone who lives in a shack in the rural boonies.

Can’t squeeze blood out of a rock

As I mentioned….they should have activated the tric for user use to play and read files…instead we are stuck with a functionless sd card slot that aesthetically is definitely not canon.

The TWC team is not enthusiastic about changing it…..yes of course, it was to late to retool and remove the sd slot…or so Chris has mentioned….and so begins another 5 years…..

This road would not have to be taken…but someone somewhere on this planet will do it.

Welp…perhaps in the finality of it all…it might turn out that Wand has a robust crypto encryption protocol that’s unhackable by someone.

 

[Leinads]

You won’t get any argument from me there. I enjoyed every iPhone jailbreak up until about five years ago, then the security concerns just became too great for me to keep doing it. I say: Liberate that tricorder!

 

[FANATICO]

You won’t get any argument from me there. I enjoyed every iPhone jailbreak up until about five years ago, then the security concerns just became too great for me to keep doing it. I say: Liberate that tricorder!

Tri-clone!

 

[Simonized]

Is there a correct way for it to spin since the screen used one never did? lol

Centered is all we ever saw

 

[Simonized]

The problem with adding new electronic/visual/immersive features is that it's not a universal update ... so you're gonna get people spamming your inboxes asking if you can do theirs too.
Make yourself available for the next 2 years

 

[FANATICO]

Centered is all we ever saw

If you think and look at it like a compass needle…it slightly NE and slightly SW….not straight up North and down South….at least from the camera shot point of view…..

It’s PST Zzzzzzz

 

[Technoboots]

If you think and look at it like a compass needle…it slightly NE and slightly SW….not straight up North and down South….at least from the camera shot point of view…..

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It’s PST Zzzzzzz

Depends on which photo you look at as well. Here is one where it is at around 45 degrees.