| Obviously when this thing is finally on my arm i’m not going to be able to walk around connected to an electrical socket. My solution for the mobile power is using 4 18650 Li-Ion batteries. These can be tricky to use because they have a tendency to become a little explody if not handled correctly. Fortunately hopping onto eBay I found a handy-dandy battery box with all the charging/discharging gubbins built in.
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Materials List |
| 4 x Li-Ion 18650 batteries (eBay) | |
| 1 x 5V 1A Mobile Power Supply Mini-USB/USB Battery Charger 18650 Box | |
Working Fallout Pipboy 3000
If you follow me on Twitter you’ll know that a minor tragedy happened and I managed to blow up the screen I was going to be using for this project – also I seem to have corrupted the memory card that has my Linux build on for the Pi. Both things are entirely my fault, i’ve search high and low for someone else to blame but the only person I came up with was the dog – and he’s got those big brown eyes so that was never going to swing with my Girlfriend. So i’ve been given permission to replace the screen and this time promised to read the circuit diagrams before assuming where I stick power.
Working Fallout Pipboy 3000
| There have been a lot of Pipboy builds, each describing thereselves as ‘working’. So what do I mean by working? The Pipboy in the game has a lot of different uses. It is the users inventory screen, notebook (for quests), map, health meter and light. Well that’s the basics anyway. It also has a radiation meter so you can see your current radiation level and a radio to pick up broadcasts. So what features do I feel I should include before I consider it working, well all of them – but for the first iteration I think we’ll concentrate on Status, Map, Radio and Light features.
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Materials List |
| Raspberry Pi Model A | |
| Sainsmart 2.5″ LCD screen | |
| 8GB SD Card | |
| Double-Row IDC 2 x 20 Header | |
| Flat IDC Cable 40 way |
