In the same note, Roddenberry suggested a second use for this type of equipment: as a toy for "female-type children." Those simple functions would soon be expanded to include the tricorder's three ...

[Reza Naima] has just released the designs for his Berkeley Tricorder for the public to use. He’s been designing it since 2007 as his thesis work for his PhD, and since he’s done now (Congrats!), ...

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 ...