I recently got a Star Trek TOS reproduction tricorder from The Wand Company to accompany my cosplay at the upcoming STLV: Trek to Vegas 2025 convention. But, more important to me right now than getting a costume ready is the contents of this device!
So in this video I do a full teardown; Though this isn’t a tutorial necessarily, as I shot it whilst figuring things out for myself the first time.
My apologies to anyone that would rather I have preserved this NIB. But remember, Lore was disassembled and he turned out fine! Seriously though, as much as I’d love to preserve this in perfect condition, I purchased it to bring it to a con. It’s gonna get banged up and scuffed at least a little bit as it hangs on my hip. So long as I can put it back together again, it should be no worse off in the end.
Sorry for the ruse in the beginning, but I wanted to show my other costume prop option: An AM/FM radio that seems to have been included with a Japan-exclusive TOS DVD box set! That was an eBay find, as I can’t imagine anyone is still handing out analog radios. I couldn’t find much in the way of details on it, so if you know anything about the device please lmk in the comments!
As usual, this video was *not* sponsored nor endorsed by The Wand Company, nor whatever company was behind the AM/FM radio in the 2000s. :)
PCB Images
I did my best to get a nice rectilinear view of all the PCBs at a reasonably high resolution and with even, sharp focus. I was mostly successful. The lighting might seem to be too shadowy, but I had to use a somewhat oblique light to get most of the component markings to appear legible.
However, I didn’t realize until after all the photos were taken and resized that the markings on both Winbond chips were illegible. But both of those appeared in the video, and I included screencaps below, which should hopefully suffice.
All images are in 2 sizes: Medium and Max Resolution. The Medium size is to make it less cumbersome if you just want to take a quick peek at about 1-3MB; The largest of the Max Res photos is about 12MB.
