{"id":384,"date":"2005-02-04T20:07:44","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T00:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2005-02-04T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T00:07:44","slug":"viewscreen-prep-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Viewscreen prep work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Viewscreen backing<\/p><\/div>\n

Next I drilled a small hole into the back of the viewscreen bucket to allow for the LED that will backlight the viewscreen to fit through. I used a 1\/8″ drill to make the hole, and I quickly test-fit the LED to make sure it easily fit through the hole without shorting the two leads.<\/p>\n

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\"Test<\/a>

Test fitting the viewscreen<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I took the slide that will serve as the display screen and cut it to fit in the viewscreen area. Since the piece already fit width-wise, I simply had to trim the top and bottom portions. I did this a little bit at a time to insure I didn’t remove too much material. It between cuts I test-fit the slide behind the viewscreen area since that’s where it’ll be placed during final assembly.<\/p>\n

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\"Graphics\"<\/a>

Graphics<\/p><\/div>\n

I then started prep work on the graphics. I used a sharp pair of scissors and a sharp hobby knife to cut the graphics apart from the white sheet on which they came. I then test fit each graphic in its respective recess-area on the tricorder body, and carefully trimmed each piece to fit properly. In this picture you can see the lower door’s graphics being test-fitted. Almost looks like a real tricorder doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next I drilled a small hole into the back of the viewscreen bucket to allow for the LED that will backlight the viewscreen to fit through. I used a 1\/8″ drill to make the hole, and I quickly test-fit the LED to make sure it easily fit through the hole without shorting the two leads. Then I took the slide that will serve as the display screen and cut it to fit in the viewscreen area. Since the piece already fit width-wise, I simply had to trim the top and bottom portions. I did this a little bit at a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":385,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-384","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\/tricorderkit24.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p930oe-6c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}