Ok, this meter looks nothing like the one used in the movie, not even remotely close. Truth is, if I were to try to build one like that, I wouldn’t even know where to start, and I just can’t see spending all that money to get the chipsets for the lights to make an authentic one, considering it’s really just a small side-prop. Obveously the Proton pack is the Steak, everything else is just a side dish.
So, that being said, I wanted something that, though wasn’t from the movies, looked like it could be something from the movies. I got the bright idea that a electrical tester looks prety techy and is reletivly cheep. It’s got a dial on it with a lot of technical looking stuff that most people wouldn’t understand, and I knew that at least one of the settings would read if the negative and positive tabs were crossed just from the power of the AA battery inside. On top of that I wanted some sort of antenna, and an old TV antenna seemed to do the job quite well. The best break came by taking a blinking LED chipset off of a display box from my work. amazingly the LED’s fit perfectly in the holes for the negative and positive polls, I really got lucky there, because I didn’t plan it that way, it just sort of worked out perfectly. I slapped a push button on the back, and wired it to the negative and positive tabs on the chipset so the scale jumps when it’s pressed. needless to say with all the extra wires and stuff added, I crammed quite a bit in the casing for that box, but the result, I think, looks prety sweet.
So here’s some pictures, tell me what you guys think.