{"id":305,"date":"2004-11-26T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-27T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2004-11-26T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2004-11-27T00:37:10","slug":"the-mark-vii-tricorder-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"The Mark VII Tricorder Project &#8211; Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_306\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tricorderkit1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306\" title=\"tricorderkit1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tricorderkit1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mark VII Tricorder Kit\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tricorderkit1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tricorderkit1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark VII Tricorder Kit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The goal of this project is to construct a replica of the Mark VII Science Tricorder as seen on later seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and early seasons of Deep Space Nine and Voyager. Feel free to click on any of the pictures for a larger (pop-up) version. Since I&#8217;m not a scratch-builder first, I&#8217;ll start off with a kit including the body, graphics, and electronics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_319\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/tricorderkit2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319\" title=\"tricorderkit2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/tricorderkit2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Washing the kit\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/tricorderkit2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/tricorderkit2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washing the kit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First off, I washed the resin parts in warm, soapy water to help remove any excess releasing agents, which could later interfere with painting. I let the parts soak for a few minutes, then scrubbed with a textured sponge, rinsed, and then let dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this project is to construct a replica of the Mark VII Science Tricorder as seen on later seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and early seasons of Deep Space Nine and Voyager. Feel free to click on any of the pictures for a larger (pop-up) version. Since I&#8217;m not a scratch-builder first, I&#8217;ll start off with a kit including the body, graphics, and electronics. First off, I washed the resin parts in warm, soapy water to help remove any excess releasing agents, which could later interfere with painting. I let the parts soak for a few&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mark-vii-tricorder-project","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tricorderkit1.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p930oe-4V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}