Canadian Man Releases Open Source Star Trek Tricorder 109
New submitter upontheturtlesback writes "Another example of Star Trek technology becoming a reality. In light of the recent Tricorder X-Prize announcement, Dr. Peter Jansen has openly released the designs for a series of Science Tricorders that he developed while a graduate student at McMaster University. The Science Tricorders are capable of sensing a variety of atmospheric, electromagnetic, and spatial phenomena. Where the Science Tricorder Mark 1 is a relatively easy-to-build proof of concept, the Science Tricorder Mark 2 runs Linux and resembles a cross between a Nintendo DS and scientific instrument with dual OLED touch displays. An exciting video shows them in action, and describes the project goal of creating general scientific tools for learning about and visualizing the world, as well as their importance for science education by helping kids understand abstract concepts like magnetism or polarization visually. The hardware schematics, board layouts, and firmware source are freely available on the Tricorder project website under various open licenses."
sweet (Score:4, Funny)
It's finally here but I can't wait until the fourcorder!
Impressive but some bugs... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Impressive but some bugs... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Impressive but some bugs... (Score:5, Funny)
The neutrino beam is being worked on.
The issue with the cat being misidentified as being silicone based was not entirely in error. After reviewing the scan and command logs, your command "identify my cat" ran into a limitation of the internal verbal dictionary.
Basically, as far as we can determine, the tricorder looked up "cat" for synonyms, and determined that "pus" and "pussy" were suitable alternates.
It then locked onto the silicone vaginal simulator you keep in your closet, and properly identified its molecular composition.
We have forwarded the bug report to our naturnal language coding team, and hope to have a bugfix soon.
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