I Made a Real-Life Pip-Boy... and Mine's Better 

Excuse me I will just save this one for future use as well

@@LukasJosai I just set it as my WhatsApp about, in a slightly different variation: "I'm so many steps ahead of you, I'm gonna need a time machine to get back." Epic.

"I'll just deport you and send you on a plane back to where you were when you arrive" would be a good one

The raw energy from this sentence is dwarfing the sun

Nice vid and watch I subscribed This thing needs a solar panel cartridge

SpyKids!! Smart watch that does everthing but tell time and takes up the entire arm!

4:06

@@aaronjones5314 No, the protaganists of that one had the smart watch that didn't tell the time, but it was shaped like a normal watch. The other set of kids had watches that take up the entire arm, and I still remember the smug look on their face when they said "oh - and it tells the time."

@@aaronjones5314 Just get a $2 quartz watch for the other arm

@@aaronjones5314 yooo i was wondering where i knew this quote from. old memories man. thanks for the nostalgia trip 😁

Bonus: E-ink is so insanely energy efficient that it would then be feasible to have a module that generates power from your movement to keep the battery charged.

@@loganfisher3138 Challenge, make it so that your movement keeps a VFD tube alive.

@@2kBofFun And make it so if it dies you die too. Sorry for spoiling your idea btw.

Even if it had sapphire instead of glass.. but idk if they make those for displays like that

How is there not a mic and speaker mod?

Exactly what I was thinking.

How about this: Sundial.

Except it does keep the time.. Shown multiple times throughout the video.

@@raccooncityhunk497 until the battery dies. In 40 minutes.

years ago i designed a working titantium morpher from Pwoler rangers, updating the90 toyswith a 3d printed new shell, havent had time recently to do all the soldering but i still have my notes, which yess include a built in walkie talkie, since you know no dial pad so no phone

totally amazing videogame idea actually as well

@@Greenlaser basically the metroid games

Any more modules and this is a device to get out of the simulation

And holocards with tips

nice idea

Or 320lbs?

@@The_Hero_Of_All_15 or 480?

@@Rajesh-Koothrappali wait that's possible?

@@The_Hero_Of_All_15 spec into enough of the right stuff yeah

@@Rajesh-Koothrappali ohh, I did not know that

It's the PokeGear from gen 2 pokemon

Nah, it's to boring

or smalller battery pucks that you can swap in and out without losing power of the main board

GPS module - sync time from it.

Nuclear power module

@@veda-powered Thorium? might even give a little glow

1- Get 10 meters of wire. 2 -Make a circle. 3-get in the circle whit a tincy in your hand. 4-Say the secret word. "i have a spare vfd"

One must first ask what beer does Zach Freedman enjoy?

@@egesanl1 I do actually have a spare VFD.

I got some LSD for all of us.

You need to be pretty high... like, Colorado altitude high.

Now introducing the Wrist Mounted Pipe Bomb. Give your punches some EXPLOSIVE force

@@mitchellbarton7915if you need a bit more boom buy the wrist mounted hydrogen bomb (25% off if you use code totally safe)

Only if it's made by Samsung

That is pretty stupid why the purpose of a watch is the time, so why would the time be the weakest feature?

@@jaredlee6591the whole build is stupid. I think that’s the point.

😂😂 So true.

@@joaomartins2541 is pp

Honestly the Spy Kids watch was a little bit unfit for purpose cause of that - if it was meant to be a secret espionage gadget, it needed to look like just a watch, and not having a clock face made it look suspicious! That's probably the #1 thing I miss from old spy movies the newer action/adventure flicks don't do - the super cool gadget props, that in Cold War flicks were realistically useful and secret, a lot like actual devices we later discovered either the CIA or KGB actually had, and slowly got more and more overengineered and obvious until the 2000s/early 2010s spy flicks with absolutely insane gadgets and tech not even trying to be disguised or multi functional anymore. Probably directly tied to the shift in public perception of spycraft from "sleeper cells/deep cover" espionage of the Cold War to what we think of when we think of spies nowadays. I just want more Cold War era spy movies and the old style perception of espionage to come back into public perception, that idea of some dignified cloak-and-dagger spywork of the Cold War, simple conflicts, spy/counterspy, CIA chasing the KGB around, deep cover and sleepers being the backbone of the system... that Cold War junk made great spy movies sitting right on the genre intersection of action/adventure and mystery/suspense and I miss those stories. The newer stuff is more hacking than spying and a common conflict is some kid or other innocent and kinda dumb civilian stumbling into something online they aren't meant to and agents having to sort it out and protect the civilian - and that was great mild horror for kid me but it's just not what the subgenre used to be!

He called it a personal augmentation platform so it's a PAP Boy

The Pipfather

The God-PIP-er

@@danielleanderson6371 the PAPPY

i laughed more than i should

Yes but it's true, one of us might be there and he just might have to taze a fan

at the "wearable computing device" levels of power, it may just be a form of greeting

Love this idea, and the name!

yeah im surprised there is not a real time clock or gps module

@@heroslippy6666 need an atomic clock, they are rather large which is why every single consumer clock just updates over wifi. There's also a US official radio broadcast for timekeeping nationwide, I have a Seiko solar powered watch that uses that to update time by itself, never knew until then.

You could also add in a stop watch just to give it another reason to exist.

@@isaacbejjani5116 ...all GPS modules have a one-pulse-per-second output that, in addition to providing a single pulse every second _on the second_, tells you what hour and minute it is based on the pulse's length. You could (assuming you don't mind a bit of weird signal decoding) very easily resynchronize over GPS. Edit: Wanted to elaborate: It's a _weird_ format. It's a 1Hz pulse wave, with lots of different pulse widths to mark the start of a frame, a padding symbol, a 'mark' (1), or a 'space' (0). Writing a driver to read this signal off of a digital GPIO pin is something I hope I never have to do, but I roughly know how to do it.

That's actually a really good idea.

@@pinaz993 Has the right amount of overengineering 👍

You could also add a wifi module and make it sync to a time server.

@@xd-fu6ry imagine not building your own atomic clock smh

Yes, add a GPS module. And use it to select a radio time broadcast! But beware- you should _obviously_ make certain that it is _always_ a time signal broadcast from a _different_ continent.

I'd love to make one, but I couldn't find any left-handed microcontrollers.

@@ZackFreedman : Easy ;) Take a right-handed micro, drag it to Australia (Austria sadly only produces an accent), get it drunk, spin it around till it vomits and passes out, then rush it back to the upright hemisphere before it wakes up; done. Be warned, it needs to sober up while passed out, otherwise it'll always insist on being upside down.

Technically, you'd want to use the controls with your dominant hand, so if it goes on the right arm then it's already left-handed.

You can create your own module for that! Hahah

@@ZackFreedman EASY just bend the pins back and solder those suckers on backwards. I may have done this when I exposed an old-school etched PCB backwards...

Ctrl F-ed you, man of culture

Damn that like count tho

Say sike right now

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Intensifies

@@razorstargazer shhh shhh, we cant let duty know

@g3m1n1 ky its called Atomic Heart its a game still being made, but it looks sick as hell

@g3m1n1 ky why make a fallout game about it when there's already a much better one called STALKER

Why would it have less tho?

It is bigger so it would have more room for more tho?

@@ElliotsLegoCreations Thats because despite having stuff that we could only dream of seeing in modern day, the fallout universe was very behind technology wise, causing things to be stuck in a sort of 90's setting. I forgot what said technologies they were missing, but it was something that was super important to bringing us into the modern era. The reason there would only be two would most likely be one of two reasons: A. Any more than two would overheat it and (obviously) that ain't good. B. They most likely couldnt get it to connect with more than two.

@@Concerned_Custodian oh okay 👍

@@Concerned_Custodian if anyone's curious about what is the missing technology, it's the transistor

Still rendering…

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at 5:03 right

I would 3d render your mom but my moniter isn't big enough

Critical error: GL buffer overflow

Or, if that's too boring, use a GPS module to get the time. I forget how it works, but recall reading that it's possible (given that you can get a signal, of course).

@@SolarShado or a wifi module to get time. GPS is a little to big i think.

@@adamleszczynski1109 GPS isn't that big anymore, check out the ublox SAM-M8Q module, it basically handles everything complicated like RF design for you and you can just get a GPS, Galileo and GLONASS signal via I²C. It's footprint is only 15.5mm x 15.5mm, so I think it'd fit great

Ooooh, like a cmos module that pairs with the oled screen and has a direct link or something so that the time is shown even when the rest of the watch is off

@@akshaysai1109 that would imply zack leaves his workshop. i doubt it

detemmination

Well yes, but actually yes.

Nethack, right?

@@DanielMonteiroNit Undertale

*Hopes and Dreams starts playing*

Duum

Zack has created a monster

@TheDrakanMaster124 I got the missile launcher loaded, and the 50rnd drum magazine loaded up....

HODL 🤣

That's why you manage to get a girlfriend, you wouldn't if you were like him. :-)

> has a girlfriend Sorry, I'm gonna need to see your Nerd License for a second.

twu

sell a pip boy to this man

I think the screen would break if you crawl around under cars/truck but how cool to switch out mods instead of having 100 testing tools! This guys video is one of the most entertaining vids I've seen in awhile

@@christosvolikakis1523 use the OLED module instead

@@christosvolikakis1523 I can imagine you could replace the screen by a number of LEDs although that could make it somewhat less easy to read off the stuff you want to know from the pip boy.

@@christosvolikakis1523 it would make it heavier but what about a tempered glass or a convex screen like CRT Tvs

Well, there is that guy who started making nixie tubes again, so who knows, right?

Keep an eye out for eBay sellers.

Just the display itself is no longer produced/sold. It is still in production in version with a driver board - look up part no CU20045-UW5J.

@@Solusarian that's probably better for DIY electronics anyway. It does cost a fair chunk of change.

@@Solusarian Oh, nice!

Sounds better on paper than it is, the refresh rates on these are horrendous so it'd suck for real-time data

@@Yuzuki1337 good point!

@@Yuzuki1337 you don't need to refresh the whole display at once: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KdrMjnYAap4.html

Fun fact, we were going to use a Colorado beer but... I drank the last one because I didn't know he needed to film one being opened. Whoops!

I was also going to bring this up

Craft beers found IN Colorado

eeew american beer! what is it, like 3%? try pretty much anything brewed in quebec (besides molson, its garbage) like st. ambroise, rouge de chambly, cheval blanc, UNIBROU! so many and not a one of them under 6%

I raise you beer from Belgium.

Yeahhh but then you'd have to leave it in the sun for a long time...and leaving it at night isn't an option, because...night. You'd also have to rewire it to accept voltage to recharge the battery, who h you have to replace with a rechargeable one. At that point, it's easier to carry a few spares and put the used ones in a charger over night.

or a spare battery module

Forget QWERTY, it could be made into a working, if somewhat slow keyboard already. Twist the knob and the first buton rotates between ABCDE, second FGHIJK, third LMNOP, fourth QRSTUV, fifth WXYZ. And some numbers etc. on top maybe. Then just press corresponding button that has the right character. With just letters you'd need max 3 notch movements.

@@Rezorrand a bit like the flower keyboard layout for controllers in steam big picture mode. I always found that type of thing a little tedious to use. a little qwerty is intuitive. To each their own

@@sirspamalot4014 do you remember Virgin Mobile sliders? With the varying styles of keyboards? Lol Just theorizing different keyboard layouts. Blackberry had interestng boards too.

@@bornstellarnova1991 I do not, they probably had a different name down under though, My go to thought is a modified xbox360 chatpad just because it's available.