LCARS (Library Computer Access Retrieval System){Star Trek} - Pi IoT Blog 5

5 Aug 2016

I have started collecting all the tablets for this project and even started programming a couple of the apps.

The android app below is my first LCARS app - it monitors temperature and humidity remotely via Bluetooth. I will post more on this app and remote sensor in a future blog.

The video below provides a feel for the LCARS theme and how it looks on tablet computers:

The app is called "LCARS UI" by NeoTechni in the Play Store

Among its many features it has a built-in browser and text-to-voice browsing capability.

I tried to make the video while hand-holding the tablet because the tri-corder is a hand-held instrument, but it would probably have been better to just leave it on the stand.

Links to the Pi IoT Design Challenge site:

Pi IoT

Pi IoT - Smarter Spaces with Raspberry Pi 3: About This Challenge

Links to blogs about the Star Trek IoT Alcove project:

Pi IoT - Star Trek IoT Alcove - Blog 1

element14 and the photon torpedo - Pi IoT Blog 2

How many tablets to use? Pi IoT Blog 3

Starship Enocean Voyager

The Starship Enocean Voyager - Pi IoT Blog 4

LCARS (Library Computer Access Retrieval System){Star Trek} - Pi IoT Blog 5

LCARS Tablets

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Top Comments

ridalyn over 7 years ago in reply to clem57

Kinda sad too, while Gene Rodenberry was alive he had a standing agreement for anyone able to develop the tech that he was depicting. If you could make it work the way he envisioned it (or reasonable close) you could use the likeness and the name. For example, if you could make a working tricorder as depicted in the show, then you could call it a "tricorder" and make it so it looked like the one in the show.

That pretty much all changed after he died and Paramount started controlling Rodenberry interests. I was actually working on an Okuda-style WORKING LCARS Operating System built around a Linux kernel (not a program that looks like LCARS, but an actual OS). I stopped development when Paramount sent a cease and desist to the group developing the tri-corder.
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dougw over 8 years ago in reply to clem57

Apparently there was a tri-corder app they shut down a couple of times for some kind of infringement.
I'm not sure why - these things aren't competing, they are just cementing the fan base.
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clem57 over 8 years ago

I hope Paramount does not see this. They may say it it "too much like" the Star Trek props.
Clem
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mcb1 over 8 years ago

Very interesting.
He has spent a lot of time on it.

Mark
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fvan over 8 years ago

This would have been awesome in the Sci Fi Your Pi challenge!! Looks great and seems to be very responsive!
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