You heard that we’re shutting down Hackaday on November 11, 2015, right? That’s the release of Fallout 4, and trust me: I’m not getting anything done that day. A new game in the Fallout series means more power armor cosplay builds, and hundreds of different wearable electronics from the friendly folks at Vault-Tec. I speak of the PipBoy, the wrist-mounted computer of the Fallout series, and [THEMCV] built the first one we’ll see this year. It won’t be the last.
The PipBoy [THEMCV] created is the 3000a model, the same one found in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. We’ve seen a few real-live versions of the PipBoy before; this one used the PipBoy prop that came with the Amazon exclusive special edition of Fallout 3. Things have changed in the years since the release of Fallout 3, and to build his PipBoy, [THEMCV] just bought one from Shapeways.
The electronics consist of a Raspberry Pi Model A, 3.5″ LCD, a battery pack, and a great piece of software to emulate the software of the PipBoy 3000. It looks great, but [THEMCV] still needs to find a few retrofuturistic buttons and dials to complete the PipBoy experience.
Video below.
What is this “shutting down” of which you speak?
It means I need to write everything for November 11th before November 11th
don’t worry, it’s a joke, HaD will remain on the internet even after November 11th.
Assuming Bethesda don’t release any DLC before Brian completes Fallout 4 :)
It’s a joke about how much they are looking forward to the game. Shut down as in so busy playing they forget to update the site.
11 Nov 2015 is VETERAN’S DAY in America (USA). This is how we honor our war heroes by shutting down for the day to remember their supreme sacrifices for US. I’m sure they be back at HaD articles 12-Nov 2015 (Thursday). What’s one day off?
Needs to have a real CRT. Maybe a flat one with side deflection like those used in some old portable sets.
Look up Sinclair TV80. That would be perfect!
Not enough room.
I have no idea what “Fallout” is (I assume a game) – but I do love that someone is willing to “officially shut down” a web site when a new release of something appears. That’s enthusiasm. I really like that – passion is a good thing, no matter what philosophers and religious dumbs are crying.
Fallout is a video game series.
Fallout 1+2 were fairly old isometric RPGs.
The series was sort of rebooted about 7/8 years ago with Fallout 3 and followed up with New Vegas. Both extremely popular.
Fallout 4 was announced last week. Possibly most anticipated game to appear at the e3 conference this year.
I myself am waiting on new vegas to finish installing again right now, fancied replaying it.
Duke Nukem
Bah someone beat me to it. I’m working on adopting an Nokia N900 to a pipboy mod.
I just want a wrist case for my Samsung S5 with a Pip Boy “skin” on the screen.
I love your website…Is it true you are going to shut down ?
I think he means that HaD office will be closed due to the release of the game. Poor choice of words in the writing of the article to say Shutting Down.
I believe he is saying the for the day of November 11th that the HaD office will be closed due to the launch of the game. Poor choice of words saying Shutting Down as it implies complete closure
Brian is known to use humour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour from a time to time.
Looks like powerful weapon of mass confusion.
there is a mass difference between humor, which I understood btw, and poor choice of words. the words chosen to convey the message were poorly done and sent a mixed message. that is not confusion, that is poor writing
The joke was pretty clear. Read between the lines and stop taking everything so seriously.
Awesome project!!! Connecting the map screen to a real time GPS to make a map of your local area would be sweet. So when you walk around in the real world it would start mapping. Collecting real time bio stats with sensors placed in your Vault 101 jacket would be cool too.
Dint forget the mandatory geiger counter, 2 ways to go about that, the cheep way, taking electrical tape and a camera and counting the pixels that get excited by presumably radiation, or the expensive way with a real geiger tube and HV circuitry.
Just thinking the same thing about the GPS. Dunno if I could be bothered to write the mapping code for that though. Then again Bethesda managed to. IIRC a lot of the interface code in Fallout 3 and New Vegas is actually Macromedia Flash apps. So mmmmaaaybe, one could have a look at extracting it?
Or otherwise just stick an image filter on Google Earth to get something halfway close.
Far as I know mapping data is valuable and proprietary. GPS companies sell maps for various regions you can download to SD card, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was encrypted, or at least too complex to easily mess about with. Probably too much work for a novelty you’re not gonna wear all the time anyway.
Very nice ! I’d really like to see the code, especially the mapping part !
ACTUAL WAR-FIGHTER WEARABLE DEVICE IN USE TODAY:
https://youtu.be/getXycCHLKI
It’s just a toughened Android phone with hardware to link to whatever radios militaries and emergency services use. Presumably that last part is the unique feature and why it presumably costs a ludicrous amount of money.
Does anyone know where to get the lens he uses for the screen. The domed glass looks so awesome but I can’t find anything big enough to use from slide viewers online, they all max out at like 2in by 2in. His looks around 3×3 or so. Please let me know if anyone knows!!