I know I'm super duper late, but I think the tooth pick is for applying the stickers. (So that you can push them down in corners and stuff that's hard to reach with your fingernails)
i'm getting the radio upgrade just for ease, the money i'd spend on parts for this added to about the same, but the screen i'm doing similar to the video. They couldve done SOOO much with the screen mod (the wand compancy i mean). they disappointed me.
@@punishedprops honestly, all I could think about in 35:23 was that you could replace the switch on the side with an actual switch to not have that weird button jutting out. Although you still woulda had to deal with the BT pairing thingy Otherwise, I applaud your creativity with implementing the electronics portion with minimal exposed modification.
EDIT: Sorry, should have mentioned. Elec. Eng. here. Re: The tea light LED circuit - I can't tell if you have used the LEDs only or if the circuitry from the lights came with it. If you kept the circuitry, it is probably fine as is. However, if you just took the LEDs, I'm concerned about safety. If the latter is the case, I'd strongly advise adding a resistor in series with the LEDs. Without a resistive load in the circuit the only thing limiting the current is the forward voltage drop across the diodes and the internal resistance of the batteries. Those batteries can probably only supply about 60mA max but overcurrenting could easily occur through a minor fault anywhere, or possibly even just a change in the battery type. If that occurred, not only could it fry your batteries and/or LEDs (annoying but not the end of the world), depending on the components and wire gauge you are using, as well as the materials of the Pip Boy itself, you could easily reduce the entire thing to slag and quite possibly start a fire. I hate to think of what could happen if that occurred while it was strapped to someone's arm. I am not 100% sure of the specs of the particular components you're using so these calculations may rely on assumptions that may not be correct about your specific setup, you'll want to check them if you want get it perfect but the values I have suggested will likely be very close to ideal and, even if slightly off, will still be far safer than your current circuit. You look to be using standard cheap orange GaP LEDs. These have a forward voltage drop of around 2V and you'll want to run them between about 15mA and 30mA for best performance although this will vary a bit depending on your needs and exact LED. These approx. values should work fine though. V= 4.5V - 2V = 2.5V Imin = 15mA Imax = 30mA V = IR R = V/R Rmin - V/Imax Rmin = 2.5V / 30mA Rmin = 83.334 Ohms (Closest standard value is 82 Ohms) Rmax = V/Imin Rmax = 2.5V / 15mA Rmax = 166.667 Ohms (Closest standard value is 160 Ohms) So a resistor between 82 and 160 Ohms is what you want. It's going to dissipate about 75mW at it's maximum so a 0.25W resistor should be more than ample. That should make it safe at least. However, we have an opportunity to also make it better at the same time. I'd advise using a suitable trimpot instead of a fixed resistor. That way you could adjust the brightness and get it perfect. You could also dial it in to maximise the life of the batteries and LEDs. Of course, if you did actually keep all the tea light circuitry, you can ignore everything I just said. I'm fairly sure the unit includes current limiting circuitry but you'll still want to check. They were designed to use button batteries that don't supply much current so they may have skimped, especially if they came from China. Using AAs may provide the potential to supply currents that will still be dangerous or destructive, even with the circuitry included. Possible but not probable IMHO. I wouldn't have bothered with all of this except for the fact that I feel that it is potential safety risk as is. Awesome project though. Makes me want to make one too. Pity I am most definitely your stereotypical left-brained nerd and I'm hopeless with anything artistic. I can probably design circuitry to make that thing teleport between universes but it'll look like a turd and have the ergonomics of a porcupine.
Most of what you did was great... until you got to the battery pack, and then the bluetooth speaker install. You should have used a Li-Ion Rechargable 2000mAh Battery (instead of traditional batteries), along with a micro USB battery charging board with overcharge protection. This could have powered BOTH devices, and you would only have to recharge the battery with a micro USB cable and charger!
@@olivias6521 lol, it's his let him do what he wants. He had most of the stuff lying around and that's why he did most of what he did. this was more of a hey, here's some ideas, mod your own how you want.
dude, if he is goign to be wearing it at conventions, if he has the battery die on the floor, he can swap double AA's immediately rather than having to plug the thing in to charge.
The toothpick is an homage to one of the Lone Wanderer’s companions in Fallout 3, Butch DeLoria. The ‘toothpick’ is actually a very effective switchblade used by Butch.
Wow this is amazing! If only there was a more realistic pipboy with all functions working and such that would be so f- amazing. But really, GREAT JOB!! Seriously this is so amazing I had to watch the entire thing haha
@@bobbyfischer7609 I am now picturing Bill and Britt as the two power armored characters you see fighting off a horde of Liberator drones in the live action Fallout 76 Advert lol
I LOVE this video!! Good job dude, keep up the amazing work. I can tell you're as much of a fallout fanboy as most of the other people that watched this 40 minute video
I know I'm 4 years in the future, but first observation, you can cut those EL panels into "any solid" shape you want and not stop it from lighting up. Just don't cut off the plug, also you can even have holes in the middle. its good stuff and available in lots of colors and sizes today. Great vid so far
There's so much potential here for a Raspberry Pi! Drop a pi in there, make the screen functional, all the buttons, knobs, etc. could be made functional! SO much potential!
Okay I heard a few electro swing songs, one of them from another dirty room's intro. But that aside, you did amazingly with this build, if I had a pip boy kit of my own I probably would have done the same. Except I would have added more lights like to the meter with the dial and the radiation sticker with some warm white LEDs or something
what you should add is a bluetooth in there and any time you have that on pop in the orange thing i forgot what u call it and then with ur phone connect and done music
Wow this is amazing!!! I have one question for you, what did you use for weathering it at the end there? It looks like you are applying a mix of paints, but it gets wiped away really easily and looks great !
I think the best part of the video for me was watching how happy and attached this guy was to his work. I mean, so often we see trendy tutorial videos that mean little to nothing, save for the amount of views, yet here we see a guy who's not only doing what he loves, but loving what he does. Props to you, man. Pun intended.
this pipboy is easily the best design in my opinion...because it is based on the original fallout design, which is a really cool idea. i kinda wish it would feature in the next 'proper' story focused Fallout too. But they seem keen on designing a brand new for each new game. But i wouldn't mind this design in the next game.
@@thestaminabs I would say the Fallout 3 pipboy was a bit dull, and the Fallout 4 pipboy was too clean. It actually bordered on looking like plastic in the game, funnily enough.
I remember when my friend took his old phone that didn't have a sim card so it was practically useless and was collecting dust, so he took a pipboy model, painted it and then found a way to get the Pipboy app and made it fit in the Pipboy, which practically made it a useable Pipboy which was super cool.
@@PerMagnus It's not as stylish though..... Also, show me a phone that can show the damage you've gained from radiation, every single item you're carrying without you needing to manually input the data into the phone, the individual weight of EACH item, and has a seemingly-infinite battery life.... And can manually hack robots. And can withstand bullets and grenades without a scratch.... *AND WHAT PHONE CAN STOP TIME???"*
Funny thing about those flickering tea lights.... try hooking a low ohm speaker to them. Almost all of them are reused Chinese musical greeting card soundboards.
@@GLITCH_-.- yes just a bit of electromagnetic noise causes the diode that would control sound through voltage to make a speaker diaphragm vibrate now makes the lights "flicker" through that same voltage variance. Neat repurpose huh!
@@osiantarrant8797 I think he's referencing about how modders are making something arguably better than the people who are actually in a company making games. Its a nasty habit Bethesda developed and looking at how 76 became, I'm wondering how it didn't happen sooner.
Great build! I know this really isn't required, especially for a prop, but I wonder if someone could make a mod that incorporates a raspberry pi and have a real working pip-boy with dials and buttons. Might be cool
SHODAN well if a touchscreen display was used it could be linked to a phone using the pip boy app. Then you could not only interact but also use it to mess with your game because it links to a save.
@@h.1699 3d printed Terminal, www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-desktop-terminal-replica-fallout-4-74195 And here an what you looking for www.instructables.com/PipBoy-3000-working/
Watching this gave me some ideas...since you modified the fake speaker to be a real speaker, another route could be turning that into a working radio. Along that sane train of thought, using a raspberry PI to have a functional screen is also an option. Really cool work!
I've been thinking of doing that. with a real tube radio actually. i mean there are Tube TV and radio sets that are put together and i've been thinking about that but it would hang about 5 inches off of my arm. But the thing with Bill's is that the tubes flicker, if you have flickering tubes on a radio, you've done something wrong. I would buy one of these, but i'd rather make my own.
I'm sure that Pip Boys are always modded, fixed, scrapped, scavenged in the wasteland so no Pip boy is alike. Don't worry too much if you change something on yours
I replaced the buttons on mine, intentionaly mounting them a bit poorly to look like a scrappy quick fix. I also accidentally lost one wire terminal, so I stripped some wire and wound it around the screw. IT looks great :3
Bethesda:sell pip-boy Fallout comunity: Are you kiding? This is in bad condition Bethesda: Oh yea well doit your self if it so easy Fallout comunity: Okey Bethesda:Demmet
So why not combine the entire setup to run on a single recharging battery with USB charger so you can charge it between use. And for the Data tapes why not make them a USB thumb drive connection so you can save game music for use on it.
Hands Down, this is my favorite episode. And of all youtube, its still a top favorite. Love the project, your mods and just how you are in it (you have such joy, that is infectious).
