The Tricorder Project

November 23, 2014 less than 1 minute read

It has always been my dream to have an universal sensing device much like what is seen in the Star Trek world. It is essentially a high-tech swiss-army knife of sensors which helps in understading objects close to the device. Since automatic DNA analysis of previously undiscovered life forms is not possible right now, I will have to settle for the following measurements -

Temperature
Humidity
Barometric Pressure
EM Radiation
Magnetic Fields
Sound Level
Acceleration in 3 axes

All of the above sensors will have to be interfaced with a microcontroller. The one I have picked to learn is the AVR line of processors. These have an 8-bit RISC architecture and the best part is that you can code using C and the gcc compiler.

Sumit Birla