Star Lord's new scanner

Finished one of my scanners. Im pretty happy with the outcome. Judging by one screen grab we get a small peak behind Peter's thumb that reveals a circuit board. So I just decided to roll with it since we haven't got a full view.

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Weathered stickers

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I ordered a kit with the parts, they will be here next week, but Soulinertia was kind enough to send me the gif file of the scanner screen. It was really good, but I found a clip of the scanner from one of the trailers, squared it, isolated it, and made my own version.

Here is the isolated version from the film -
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Here is my version, it's a little more stylized -
Tracker Snap.jpg

Here it is in the tracker -
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I've made both are sharp and soft version, if you want to use them here they are as both .mp4 and .gif files. Enjoy!

Files -
Download file GOTG_Tracker_Files.zip

(Links have been updated to reflect the change over to https)
 
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I used the green hex code to make them green. I'm almost completely colour blind, so I have trouble with colours! :)
Here you go -
Download file GOTG_Tracker_Files.zip
Enjoy,
Kelvington

PS Jan 2019 - I have fixed the links thanks to Starboy Sean who mentioned they were broken!
(Links have been updated to reflect the change over to https)
 
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Had someone ask me for the ORIGINAL sounds from Mattel Electronic Football in my video, here it is. I have an hour long version if someone wants it -
Tracker Files
Enjoy,
Kelvington

PS Jan 2019 - I have fixed the links thanks to Starboy Sean who mentioned they were broken!
(Links have been updated to reflect the change over to https)
 
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Just finished my tracker using a Raspberry Pi Zero, video demo is below. This took much longer than I expected due to problems with the header pins on the TFT display and dead-ends with the software. Thanks to everyone on this thread who put time into this prop and especially Soulinertia for the stickers and Kelvington for the animation.

 
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Just finished my tracker using a Raspberry Pi Zero, video demo is below. This took much longer than I expected due to problems with the header pins on the TFT display and dead-ends with the software. Thanks to everyone on this thread who put time into this prop and especially Soulinertia for the stickers and Kelvington for the animation.

https://youtu.be/n3dA_ZEG2DE

Yes! You have solved the issue without having to use a mobile phone and the hassle to open the prop, click through programs, etc. I would love to follow your foot steps with my build. Would you be up for posting a tutorial? Either way, nice job!
 
Yes! You have solved the issue without having to use a mobile phone and the hassle to open the prop, click through programs, etc. I would love to follow your foot steps with my build. Would you be up for posting a tutorial? Either way, nice job!

Thanks! There are actually some really good guides on Adafruit that I followed for the bulk of the electronics, I'll link them below. I'd suggest anyone who decides to take-on a raspberry pi build should be comfortable soldering small electronics and using the command-line in linux. If anyone else goes this route I'll send you my Raspbian config files to save you some time, just PM me.

Below is the guide that I followed primarily for the electronics, except that I used a Pi Zero W instead of a Pi A since the zero is much smaller. I also only wired three of the buttons (#6, #12, and #13) and obviously the case was the Mattel Classic Football instead of a 3D printed case. I also wired an on-off switch between the wires leading to the speaker (I salvaged the slide switches from the original game). One tricky part was header on the Pi zero and the TFT screen. I ended-up shortening the pins on the Pi Zero GPIO header maybe 0.25" so everything fit inside the case
https://learn.adafruit.com/pocket-pigrrl/overview

The 2.8" Adafruit TFT might be even better for this build. I believe it should just barely fit in the case but I went with what I thought was a safer route using the 2.4".

The Pi zero also doesn't have sound built-in so I followed this guide using PIN 19 on the GPIO header for the second wire instead of PIN 13 (PIN 13 was used for one of the buttons).
https://learn.adafruit.com/adding-basic-audio-ouput-to-raspberry-pi-zero/pi-zero-pwm-audio

Finally for software: instead of running Retropie I'm just running Raspbian Jessie light (latest image, April 2017) with mplayer for the animation. I had to crop the animation to run on the tiny screen but that was pretty easy with the right software. See this guide for mplayer set-up: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-2-4-pitft-hat-with-resistive-touchscreen-mini-kit/playing-videos.
 

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