If you really wanted to go crazy and have a project you could sink your teeth into, you could always attempt to stuff the electronics from a portable scanner into the chassis and housing of, say, an APX 7000.
I think you'd need some ability to design some custom circuit boards to interface all the controls properly, but given how small the circuit board guts of a scanner are these days, I think it's actually a feasible concept.
I think you'd need some ability to design some custom circuit boards to interface all the controls properly, but given how small the circuit board guts of a scanner are these days, I think it's actually a feasible concept.