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Step 2Getting started
I found great reference photos on tk560.com and startrekpropauthority.blogspot.com, with more information on the star trek wiki memory-alpha.org. tk560.com has a set of templates that I used as a starting point (somewhat confusingly under the HOW TO guides for star wars props). You can find various Star Trek sound effects floating around as well. The basic tricorder is about 7 1/8 x 2 1/8 x 5 1/4. Mine is roughly 8 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 7.
Step 1 was to try to mimic the medical display. I wrote an animated presentation in Apple Keynote, saved it as a quicktime, and used itunes to convert it to iphone format. I think the iWork '09 version of Keynote can't export to quicktime, so I hope you kept a copy of the old version. Also, iMovie can't edit quicktime, but it can import the file after it's converted to iphone format, so there was a bit of fiddling here. I did some minor editing and added some scanner sound effects and tested it out. Note that this movie isn't an exact replica of the medical scanner, but it's pretty close.
Step 1 was to try to mimic the medical display. I wrote an animated presentation in Apple Keynote, saved it as a quicktime, and used itunes to convert it to iphone format. I think the iWork '09 version of Keynote can't export to quicktime, so I hope you kept a copy of the old version. Also, iMovie can't edit quicktime, but it can import the file after it's converted to iphone format, so there was a bit of fiddling here. I did some minor editing and added some scanner sound effects and tested it out. Note that this movie isn't an exact replica of the medical scanner, but it's pretty close.
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