Birth of the Blue Missile

And yet Ross I look at your machining, and feel the same way.
Im just living out childhood fantasies. Being a scifi nut and growing up with Tom Swift and Doc Savage and of course Star trek, what amazes me is all this stuff is out there to be combined into these systems and for less than pennys on the dollar and stuff they could only dream about back then.
I look at this way I didnt build the FLIR system from scratch, I bought a $70 security camera (actually two - I screwed the first one up), put the guts in a smaller box with no changes, I bought a pair of visor monitors for $180 and pluged one into the other. Sure I put some LEDs on a piece of perf board, but this is all pretty basic stuff. I guess what Im saying is this kind of "inovation" is not beyond any of you guys here. Ive seen some of the "homemade" (I hate that term) tools which are VERY cool.
Im hoping what I post will inspire someone to think outside of the box ans say you know theres this idea I have and give it a try.
Thanks again for the kudos, it means alot at this end.
Andrew