Open Source Tricorder Is In It For The Science

What happened

If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. That’s something you’d have in common with [PeterAJansen], who has been working for over a decade now to create something worthy of being called a tricorder.

Frankly, it looks more usable than Roddenberry’s version. The “tri” in tricorder means three, but this device has more than three instruments– so did the ones on the show, come to think of it.

That’s hard to say, but it seems like enough to explore this one. The device is based around a Clockwork Pi uConsole, which takes care of the form-factor: a slabtop with a QWERTY keyboard and an IPS display in a nice screen, and a Compute Module 5 to crunch all that data.