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A project log for Star Trek TNG Bluetooth Communicator

Turning a BT headset into a real communicator

bartBART 08/24/2015 at 17:460 Comments

Don't have a 3D printer and scanner, so I have to do things the old fashioned way. Which in some ways is really therapeutic and fun.

Now for those of you who know and those who don't , QMx makes a beautiful prop replica of the TNG comm badge. As lore would have it. These cast and plated prop replicas are made from molds obtained from the TNG production. Can't get more accurate than that. so I bought a few. Gave them to friends and took mine apart. Lol. Sometimes just can't help myself. If a Bluetooth headset/any device is around and less than $5 bucks, it's mine and broken.

I digress. :-d

For perspective a 90s era TNG comm badge toy against a the prop replica without the fa

Which I'd like to make the point. I don't thin we want toys. Wouldn't you like to have the real deal? I mean I don't want a communicator that just beeps or is so disproportionately sized that it's become clunky and obtrusive. How about something that you'd want to use even if you weren't a Trekkie all garbed out for the con in cos play. Something that would be a valuable extension of your phone. So simple and easy to use you could personify it with intuition. That's the goal! No more toys, real deal trek and tech baby.

Refining the shape :)

We're not building this for a contest.

Lol we're building it because we believe the only way out is up. We don't want one person in space, we want all people in space. Our children and grandchildren should be taking field trips to the lunar surface not to the lunar observatory or planetarium.

That's why we keep on, until we have made something truly worthy of starfleet!

Humbly,

Bart

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