Difference between revisions of "Picorder"

Revision as of 07:11, 14 March 2018

Logo for the Picorder Project

The TR-108 is a Raspberry Pi Zero based system that includes a sensor package, battery, display and supplemental components to provide a satisfying and accurate Tricorder experience. In the interest of inspiring others to build on what I have done I am providing all of the documentation I can.

Notes

Basic functionality is complete; the program logs values from the sense hat and displays them. Future releases will optimize this code, for now its a dogs breakfast. What do you expect, I'm a noob.

Requirement:

Picorder.py uses a number of modules to operate, specifically:

• Pygame
• Senshat
• RPi.GPIO
• sys
• time
• math
• os
• psutil (PC Demo only)

Be sure you have these modules installed before attempting to run this program.

Construction

You can find all the necessary construction documents in the "construction" folder.

Adafruit parts Wishlist is here: http://www.adafruit.com/wishlists/435166

The base I used for the tricorder: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B001820194/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB

Wiring

Picorder Wiring Diagram

The layout of the Picorder.

Sources

This project was made possible by information and inspiration provided by these sources: - https://hackaday.io/project/5437-star-trek-tos-picorder - https://github.com/tobykurien/rpi_lcars

Resources

Software

Github Link

Additional Media

Youtube Video

I decided to make a youtube video under my Obso1337 channel to walk through how I designed and built this device.

Media Coverage

The Picorder was featured on Hackaday.

http://hackaday.com/2017/08/18/picorder-raspberry-pi-stands-in-for-stone-knives-and-bearskins/