{"id":51,"date":"2012-10-01T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=51"},"modified":"2021-07-02T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:14:29","slug":"pipodcorder-pipod-tricorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Picorder &#8211; Raspberry Pi-powered Tricorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deskarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tricorder-star-trek.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/deskarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tricorder-star-trek.jpg?resize=320%2C320\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Long-term hardware project: a Raspberry Pi tricorder. It&#8217;s not exactly a novel idea, but it gives me the opportunity to merge my software skills with the hardware side of the Pi, which I&#8217;m just learning.<\/p>\n<p><b>PHASE 1 &#8211; Tricorder<\/b><br \/>\n<b>BASICS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battery-powered Raspberry Pi with 3.5mm (or larger) screen.<\/li>\n<li>Additional diagnostics via 16&#215;2 lcd screen.<\/li>\n<li>Wifi network access.<\/li>\n<li>Extended capabilities via Windows Mobile phone connecting with VNC and Putty.<\/li>\n<li>Rii Bluetooth keyboard and touchpad. (Touchpad will be visible all the time as will a couple of the keys, but the main part of the keyboard will be a &#8216;revealable&#8217; affair.<\/li>\n<li>Contained in a clamshell case of some sort.<\/li>\n<li>LCD readout panel. <b>(PARTIALLY DONE)<\/b><\/li>\n<li>LCDs and moving parts for function and decoration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>SENSORS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Temperature\/humidity<\/li>\n<li>Distance via ultrasonic<\/li>\n<li>Movement via PIR<\/li>\n<li>Barometric pressure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>PHASE 2 (Location and Environment)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add GPS module<\/li>\n<li>Add mapping interface to GPS<\/li>\n<li>Light level sensor<\/li>\n<li>Compass module<\/li>\n<li>Some kind of on\/off switch for the Pi itself<\/li>\n<li>Accelerometer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>PHASE 3 (Medical tricorder)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some kind of bluetooth\/wireless peripheral (&#8220;Medical tricorder&#8221;) for taking temperatures, that kind of thing.<\/li>\n<li>A camera to take picture of &#8216;patients&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Heart rate \/ blood oxygen monitor &#8211; http:\/\/www.coolcomponents.co.uk\/catalog\/heart-rate-monitor-p-816.html<\/li>\n<li>Geiger counter (for when you absolutely MUST know the level of cosmic radiation on that alien planet!)<\/li>\n<li>Some kind of sound sensor<\/li>\n<li>Some kind of bluetooth\/wireless peripheral (&#8220;Medical tricorder&#8221;) for taking temperatures, that kind of thing.<\/li>\n<li>A camera to take picture of &#8216;patients&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hoping that at each Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam I can show a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>The Picorder will run Adafruit&#8217;s Occidentalis distro with my Redwing script suite.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only I could find my original toy tricorder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term hardware project: a Raspberry Pi tricorder. 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PHASE 1 &#8211; Tricorder BASICS&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,32,37,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-my-projects","category-picorder","category-raspberry-pi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Picorder - Raspberry Pi-powered Tricorder - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Picorder - Raspberry Pi-powered Tricorder - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Long-term hardware project: a Raspberry Pi tricorder. 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