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

My most over-engineered project of all time is the a flashlight, laser, keystroke injection attack vector, current sensor, infrared thermometer, volatile organic compound sensor, and more. The only thing it's bad at is telling the time. Behold the Singularitron.

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[camhadland]

"I'm so many steps ahead of you I'm gonna need a passport to get back" is a quote I now know exist and will absolutely weaponize from here on

[ristopaasivirta]

"Hey man can you tell me what's the time?"
"I can tell you just about everything else!!"

[Rajesh-Koothrappali]

Ah yes but can it magically store 270lbs of items ?

[RowdyTheHitman]

This is literally the spy kids watch, does everything but keep the time

[blackspell]

Would be really cool to make an Escape Room with this, where you get more and more cartridges and have to solve puzzles with them.

[nudemanonbike]

Display idea: Make it E-Ink, so you can write a message to it and it'll stay when you remove it. Use it as an incredibly inefficient way to pass messages assuming you had two of them

[GregoryRobertsLx]

Why don't you build an over-engineered back-up battery module for when you have to change the actual battery?

[Vanillanite]

how does one get invited to a zack freedman house party. This is the relevant question to ask.

[yamil]

You can use the second display as a tab marker. It can help keep track of which module you have active, kind of like the Stats, Items, Data, and Radio tabs on an actual pip-boy.

[GridDweller]

My mans just made himself the pip-boy...

Wait no, this is a pip MAN

[hamood]

"and a taser, because you might be there" is a weirdly wholesome threat tbh.

[SeanHodgins]

Does it come in a left handed version?

[ryanpitchford]

Sounds like you need a gps module to keep track of the time

[loganfisher]

Making it modular is such an awesome idea. I would love to see that added as a feature in the next Fallout game. Discovering new components to improve your pipboy as you explore the wasteland and having to optimize based on limited available slots would be so interesting.

[MogoPrime]

Module idea: Chronotracker - Equipped with a replaceable coin cell battery, the module keeps track of the time and date, and when the Singularitron reads it, either in-situ or at boot, the values are loaded into the OS. Then you are safe to dislodge the Chronotracker until needed, like in a couple hours.

[OrangeC]

9:11 I was completely prepared for him to reference Spy Kids and say "It can't tell the time because there wasn't enough space for it"

[ademrax]

"all coded in object oriented c++ Kill me" that smile though lol 6:15

[SuperAwesomeWeirdGuy]

9:30 "This watch's weakest feature is keeping the time..."
*Gets flashback to Spy Kids movie*

[Adam-myqx]

"Yes this is all written in object oriented C++, Kill me"

I Actually died laughing lololololollol

[Jaayjeee]

“so i use it to blink an led” is about the funniest part i’ve heard in a while