Trying To Answer All Your Pip-boy Questions 

That sounds like a cool job! Thanks for the insight. Designed any stuff us geeks might use on the daily?

@@MassiveDMG 😅 nothing as cool as a pipboy, but lots of kitchen and bathroom organizers.

Yeah

Thanks for sharing

That would be really appreciated!

@@Flamejumper sure

He be jammin'

I have a feeling you won't be short on Pip-Boy videos for a while 😅

Understood.

same here, im also glad to hear the pop up notifications are just a bonus not a set screen

@@J.L.smith5712 yeah.

Ok

That's awesome. Sounds like a really cool memory! I'm younger than you, so my 1st experience with Star Wars was Star Tours at Euro Disney in the 90s, getting fully physically immersed in the world and after that I watched the trilogy (not the Special Edition) taped from tv when it was on at night, without having Vader's real identity spoiled. My parents did miss recording the Tantive V scene, so 'my' Star Wars starts at Tatooine 😅. The draft script we saw at Propstore said it was (partially) called "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller: as taken from the Journal of the Whills Saga 1: Star Wars". Try putting that on merchandise!

@@MassiveDMG Very cool!

Guess he got lucky on the skill check

@@MassiveDMG or a higher intelligence stat lol

@@Wasteland_Wanderer76 Time to nom some Mentats

True

@@MassiveDMG I can promise there were no chems involved in the making, probably 👀

More to come!

Come to think of it... I've never seen IT. I do work in IT

@@YourGeekFix can't wait!

Prior to the fourth it wasn't it still called "The Adventures of Luke Starkiller"

No flashlight. But you could add one.

@@YourGeekFix I didn't think they'd have any plans for modifications this late into the production. Definitely thinking about adding one myself but I'd hate to do any damage to it. I'm considering an easy magnetic attachment but we'll see when I finally have it lol

@@pip00 good idea.

The experience they had after the stand and watch, they felt bluetooth was not something worth doing in general.

@@YourGeekFix ah, shame. Still awesome regardless

@@cheeky_emz yup

That would be really cool to have Bluetooth. Would be like the better faulty pipboy Bluetooth from fallout 4 we got.

@@bill_gates2489 If you buy it and turn it into a Raider Pip-Boy you can add all the teeth you want. Even Nuka Cola Quantum blue ones!

Thanks for the real-world insights into that! There are some more barebone arduino boards out there like the SEEED Studio Xiao, but those lack the (literal) power for the fancy GUI we want on the screen, not to mention the lack of a screen driver board. Still a fun problem to hack away at. Thanks for commenting!

It's a space problem.

@@YourGeekFix isn't everything in space... Technically? 🌌

@@MassiveDMG wa wa

It doesn't because they are only green in the show

What is this magic you speak of

Just doesn't fit well in the pipboy

Here's hoping! I personally think it will be like the 2000 Radio Module and have some in-universe chatter through your actual radio broadcasts, but having some Public Domain songs on it would be sweet. Not sure how that works for the international market though.

I'll find out soon

June... yes.. also may be releasing a specialized board for it. So, adjusting.

those lithium ion or lifepo portable electrical powertools batteries. about the size of an orange.

a power source is also a , container for fourtimes 1.5 volt double AA battery, they have 1 amps a piece, and connected too a usb plug deliver power within the 4.8 and 6 volt usb trashhold. and connected in serie these easy too get disposeable AA batteries are a good source of power for the raspberry pi. not all the raspberries uses the same amount of wattages. some raspberries uses more power then others.

computer programs do use power each. so if you runneing more programs then the computer uses more power and visa versa

uses programs at the Same time. see cpu useage wich determines the power consumption.

there are "normal" USB POWERBANKS, in every online store. for 20 bucks or so. wich is a big brick with an usb port with lithium something in it, wich can be charged also with usb !!! how fun. too power a raspberry pi, there is also a ,,,,, banana pie and a,,,,, orange pie... watch next ?!

That's a good one. It's featured quite a lot in the show (ha!). I honestly don't know, but perhaps Jeromy can shine a light on it when he's with Chris next week.

The power draw was too much.

For people who ordered in early March, comes in Nov

I sound like the dog from Wacky Racers!

Oh

@@MassiveDMG lol

useless

Not a nuclear physics engineer, but here's my two Vin-cents. There's background radiation all around us, and different kinds of radiation do different things. Some of it doesn't even penetrate your skin. Depending on where in the world you are, you might get some peeps and pips from building materials. Apparently bananas cause it to beep as well. But you're right, an actual geiger counter wouldn't be so useful as a daily driver (thankfully!). There is a lot more theory behind it. The Modern Rogue channel covers a lot of ground on radiation in some of their videos, so check that out!

Good dream. My 2000 has one.

Idk. That would be cool.

There used to be Bluetooth to radiowave (forgot if it was AM or FM) adapters that you could plug into your car lighter. They (said). they would broadcast in a small bubble around your car so your in-car radio picks it up. Not sure if they are legal or available, but. it could be a way to let the Pip-Boy play your kinda radio.

@@MassiveDMG there was

I have one! It works great and runs on AAA batteries. (Get rechargeable ones of course).

@@squidlit4308 Cool! Got a brand name?

Canned, yes.

No, just pre-order. They are making then to the exact number ordered and stopping.

Very funny! Lol!

Warhammer... Warhammer never changes.

They tried. Was a power sucker. A battery operated one would be difficult to add batteries.

​​@@YourGeekFixI think a good idea is to increase the screen brightness even more when flashlight is turned on in the pip-boy, so that kinda acts like a flashlight, just like in the games.

@@aarmin1902 ok

It's not cheap, that's true. It's a premium item. And a bargain is subjective, because this could feed a whole family for a week depending on where you live. However, considering what is being put into the Pip-Boy on that scale, you have to take miniaturization into account. Small things doing a lot of stuff are expensive, especially for a niche audience and perhaps usecases. Electronics and programming-wise the Haslab Proton Pack is a bunch of buttons and lights with a speaker encased in plastic, nothing too complex. I actually had to buy a 300+ dollar lights and sound kit from GPStar to make it do what I want it to do. But that's me. Space was also no issue for the Proton Pack electronics. The Pip-Boy that you can preorder now is a much smaller footprint, and a wearable with a working screen and die-cast metal front with a lot more functionality in it. That gets expensive fast. Knowing Chris a bit, he won't skimp on the packaging either unless it's really necessary. Oftentimes the box it comes in is just as valid of a replica or prop as the toy itself (it's still a toy peeps 😅). Also, based on publicly available data: Hasbro: 8.9 Billion net worth The Wand Company: around 3-5 Million net worth That's not a really fair comparison in my book when it comes to economy of scale. It might be Bethesda granting the license, but it's still The Wand Company putting their hands in the fire producing such an item for us at built to order manufacturing. For a smaller company that means footing the bill for production beforehand and hoping to recuperate the cost afterwards. I bet Hasbro has an easier time floating monies towards production lines than The Wand Company does. Heck, they probably own some lines themselves. Either way, I hope you get to experience the Pip-Boy in person somehow once it's out. I got burned on the Starfield watch so I am still a bit sceptical, but I do think the above should be taken into account, and trust Chris and the rest to deliver a top notch product as they did with all their other Fallout products. Because he's a friend of the channel doesn't mean I'll handwave away any issues I might've got with the product. Like if the clock can't do dd-mm-YYYY, I'll flip! 😉 Whether it's a bargain will depend on the actual final product and how much they'll be going for on the secondary market once they're all sold out and out of production. Thanks for the comment though, and the opportunity for discussion. I appreciate the comparison, and the above is how I justified the price for myself. It doesn't invalidate your opinion, by no means! Let's look back at this topic after the release and I'll let you know if I still think it was a bargain or not in a later video 😅. All the best! -Vinz

It's funny you didn't mention the price of the wand of the proton pack, with pulse membership by itself was almost 200.

Amazon shipping centers have wrist worn computers with scanners.

​@@YourGeekFixYeah check out the Zebra WT6400 for an example.

James had a slip and fall and fractured his leg quite badly he's recovering as we speak with the cast show I'm sure he'll return as he's able to we wish him all the best.

@@SithLord_MiguelYeah James is/was recovering when we recorded this. Send him good vibes!

Thank you!

Appreciate it!

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Got it.

Did you not pay attention? There were two reasons not to do it. One, they didn't do it in the show. Two, the one everybody seems to be missing, is that they don't have LCD screens in fallout. They use CRTs which are thick so even if you could open in up it wouldn't fit behind the screen, at best you could try and squeeze in into the right or put it where the fallout 4 one is on the top.

@@thomgizziz i was the one who sent the diagram that he talked about, i sent SO much

@@YourGeekFix im glad👍

@@J.L.smith5712 You're freaking awesome! Also my armchair engineer remark was by no means meant as a jab. It's honestly admirable to see so much thought go into fixing the problem. Happy to have you on board looking for solutions 🫡.

Todd and the art department at Bethesda designed it.

So, we did a real one on the 2000, but it didn't do much. Emg was more interesting. I eventually made it a fake geigercounter with moving needle.

I want an H.R. Giger counter for when I watch Alien

@@YourGeekFix All you would have to do is change the programming so it clicks more with less radiation detected. You don't have to have it do a click per a count... It averages out the counts and you could have it do 10x or 100x the clicks. Which would make it a bit less useful if you ever actually need to know if you are dealing with dangerous radiation... but if you are in that situation things are pretty bad.

@@thomgizziz the key was... who wants to carry radiation around? I didn't.

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You are awesome!