Current scan data points:
- Atmospheric: Ambient temperature (averaged across 3 sensors), relative humidity, barometric pressure, Target Temp, GRIDeye temp (8x8 grid of IR thermal detectors)
- Electromagnetic: UV Index, IR intensity, RGB Color, Visible light intensity in Lux, UV intensity
- Radiation: Gamma/Xray detection
- Gasses: Carbon monoxide, Nitrogen dioxide, Ethanol, Hydrogen, Ammonia, Methane, Propane, Isobutane
- Mechanical: 3-axis Accelerometer, 3-axis Digital Gyroscope, 3-axis Hall Effect Magnetometer
Currently, the Tricorder Version 5 is made up of the following:
- 1x Feather microcontroller board
- 9x sensor boards
- 1x TFT LCD
- 4x logic boards
- 2x Neopixels
- 1x 500mAh LiPo battery
- Assorted electonic components (LEDs, switches, wiring...)
- Custom built ABS, Aluminum and Polycarbonate chassis/casing
- My horrible, patched together code
This is the 5th iteration of the Tricorder (the first was a prop build, not functioning), running v.o-10 code.
Not bad! Unfortunately I was never able to finish my own one. I´m still not sure about the basic strategy how to build it. You´re using a µC with on board radio, that´s useful in the long term I think. I also thought of using only limited amount of sensors within the main unit which might give long runtime, small size and weight. Using LoRa etc. one could shift all heavy duty sensors out to accessorie units...