Comments on: Make It So: Open Source, Arduino-Based Tricorder Nears Completion – IEEE Spectrum https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2014/10/12/make-it-so-open-source-arduino-based-tricorder-nears-completion-ieee-spectrum/ All about electronics and circuit design Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2014/10/12/make-it-so-open-source-arduino-based-tricorder-nears-completion-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1283937 Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:10:14 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=27847#comment-1283937 Medical Tricorder Mark I
http://hackaday.com/2014/11/07/medical-tricorder-mark-i/

A handheld tricorder is as good a reason as any to start a project. The science-fiction-derived form factor provides an opportunity to work on a lot of different areas of hardware development like portable power, charging, communications between sensor and microcontroller. And of course you need a user interface so that the values being returned will have some meaning for the user.

Medical tricorder
http://letsmakerobots.com/content/medical-tricorder

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2014/10/12/make-it-so-open-source-arduino-based-tricorder-nears-completion-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1279025 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:37:09 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=27847#comment-1279025 The Hackaday Prize: The Hacker Behind The First Tricorder
http://hackaday.com/2014/11/03/the-hackaday-prize-the-hacker-behind-the-first-tricorder/

Smartphones are the most common expression of [Gene Roddneberry]‘s dream of a small device packed with sensors, but so far, the suite of sensors in the latest and greatest smartphone are only used to tell Uber where to pick you up, or upload pics to an Instagram account.

[Peter]‘s entry, the Open Source Science Tricorder or the Arducorder Mini, is loaded down with sensors. With the right software, it’s able to tell [Peter] the health of leaves, how good the shielding is on [Peter]‘s CT scanner, push all the data to the web, and provide a way to sense just about anything happening in the environment.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2014/10/12/make-it-so-open-source-arduino-based-tricorder-nears-completion-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1279024 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:35:44 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=27847#comment-1279024 Make It So: Open Source, Arduino-Based Tricorder Nears Completion
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/make-it-so-open-source-arduinobased-tricorder-nears-completion-

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2014/10/12/make-it-so-open-source-arduino-based-tricorder-nears-completion-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1279023 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:35:25 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=27847#comment-1279023 10 Finalist Teams Announced for Tricorder XPrize
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/diagnostics/10-finalist-teams-announced-for-tricorder-xprize

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2014/10/12/make-it-so-open-source-arduino-based-tricorder-nears-completion-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1258461 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 06:25:00 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=27847#comment-1258461 Open Source Science Tricorder
Science in your hand. A pocket-sized instrument capable of visualizing and exploring the world around you.
http://hackaday.io/project/1395-open-source-science-tricorder

Sensing Capabilities

The current prototype has been designed to include the following sensing capabilities:

Atmospheric Sensors

Ambient Temperature and Humidity: Measurement Specialties HTU21D
Ambient Pressure: Bosch Sensortec BMP180
Multi-gas sensor: SGX-Sensortech MICS-6814

Electromagnetic Sensors

3-Axis Magnetometer: Honeywell HMC5883L
Lightning sensor: AMS AS3935
X-ray and Gamma Ray Detector: Radiation Watch Type 5
Low-resolution thermal camera: Melexis MLX90620 16×4
Home-built linear polarimeter: 2x TAOS TSL2561
Colorimeter: TAOS TCS3472
UV: Silicon Labs Si1145
Spectrometer: Hamamatsu C12666MA micro-spectrometer, with NeoPixel light source

Spatial Sensors

Inertial Measurement Unit: Invensense MPU-9150 9-axis (3-axis accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometer)

Other Sensors

Microphone: Analog Devices ADMP401

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