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What would be your ideal kit of tools for a real world tricorder? (self.startrek)

submitted 1 year ago by Cool_Name to c/startrek

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Smartphones are cool but they are fairly limited as far as the types of data that they can really take in. If you were putting together a kit of tools with existing technology to gather data for science and engineering which tools do you think would be most important? Here are my ideas.

Multimeter
IR camera
UV camera
Motion amplification camera
Microscope
The flipper zero or some similar hacking tool

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hrm... If going for things that could magically be in it, I think the following:

Multi-meter
Oscilloscope / Logic Analyzer / Signal Generator
Basic microscope
UV/Vis/IR spectrophotometer/spectrometer (possibly part of an imaging system)
Geiger counter / dosimeter
Gas Chromatograph (maybe use some kind of forcefield instead of physical column)/ Mass Spectrometer
EMR transceiver
Onboard reprogrammable logic circuitry (allows for arbitrary signal routing and data transformations)