If you have a box of tacks and an old transistor radio, you can make an inexpensive Star Trek communicator and Tricorder.

These are definitely not as authentic as the store-bought replicas, and they don’t have flashing lights, but they’re far more inexpensive than replicas. (And if your transistor radio still works, you can be the first member of Star Fleet to get AM/FM radio on your tricorder…not even Spock could do that!). You can make the set of both for around $20 or less, rather than the $70 you’d pay for replicas.

The thin black foam I used on the communicator is sold in sheets for 99 cents at JoAnn fabrics and Michaels. The black material I used on outside of the tricorder in the same stuff I used for Thor’s Vest and Loki’s Coat. It’s just a black polyester material I found in JoAnn fabrics near the alova, but it looks like real leather.

If you want to make the Star Trek uniform click here to watch the how-to.

(And yes, I know the line is actually supposed to be “Come in, Scotty,” but I messed up and wasn’t re-filming, so now it’s “Scotty, come in.” Whoops).

Video tutorial by Amber Reifsteck, The Woodland Elf

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