PipBoy 2012

Gus_Issa · June 13, 2012, 9:10pm

I want one

mhectorgato · June 13, 2012, 10:23pm

Very very very cool!

How are you mapping the movements on the image? Using the lat/lon, or calculating the difference from current/previous positions and scaling that to map?

Also how are you powering the device?

Architect · June 13, 2012, 11:10pm

Awesome!

Skewworks · June 13, 2012, 11:25pm

The mapping is done with Lat/Lng. The GPS spits out GPS lat/lng (obviously) and I convert that to map lat/lng in the driver to work w google maps. Then I take a print screen of a map, mark the coordinates and the top left and bottom right corners and use that to plot the point in the image. I also modify the living daylights out of the image to look more fallout like. Each road was redraw by hand and half a dozen filters/effects applied.

It’s powered by a 2200mAh LiPo with a battery life of around 36hrs of max use (gps always looking for a fix, LCD constantly writing, and LED on). More like 2-3days normal usage.

@ Gus, get the uSD online and I might just make you one

Gus_Issa · June 13, 2012, 11:27pm

This? http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/359

Skewworks · June 13, 2012, 11:33pm

Yes but working w the Cerb40

mhectorgato · June 14, 2012, 9:36am

Skewworks:

mhectorgato:

Very very very cool!

How are you mapping the movements on the image? Using the lat/lon, or calculating the difference from current/previous positions and scaling that to map?

Also how are you powering the device?

The mapping is done with Lat/Lng. The GPS spits out GPS lat/lng (obviously) and I convert that to map lat/lng in the driver to work w google maps. Then I take a print screen of a map, mark the coordinates and the top left and bottom right corners and use that to plot the point in the image. I also modify the living daylights out of the image to look more fallout like. Each road was redraw by hand and half a dozen filters/effects applied.

It’s powered by a 2200mAh LiPo with a battery life of around 36hrs of max use (gps always looking for a fix, LCD constantly writing, and LED on). More like 2-3days normal usage.

@ Gus, get the uSD online and I might just make you one

Nice job. You’ve given me some (hopefully good) ideas!

One quick question about that GPS module - how does the reception change if it’s not exposed through the box?

Skewworks · June 14, 2012, 11:28am

@ mhectorgato - I haven’t played with that too much, though I am sure it would dampen the signal a bit. The truth is the document for the GPS module really sells itself short. I remember reading it would not get a lock inside and the horrible lock times it had, but i figured that was good enough for this little pet project.

I was pleasantly surprised that neither of those were really true. There have been time I waited a very long time on a cold boot, but adding the RTC battery to it (Adafruit ships their board with a coin cell holder you can solder onto the board) fixed that right up, and I’ve never had a problem getting a lock in doors.

Outside I can usually get 9+ satellites where inside I almost always stay at 7. So it would be a fair guess to say that in the outdoors with the GPS unit fully blocked by the enclosure you’d see roughly the same.

mhectorgato · June 14, 2012, 11:35am

Skewworks:

@ mhectorgato - I haven’t played with that too much, though I am sure it would dampen the signal a bit. The truth is the document for the GPS module really sells itself short. I remember reading it would not get a lock inside and the horrible lock times it had, but i figured that was good enough for this little pet project.

I was pleasantly surprised that neither of those were really true. There have been time I waited a very long time on a cold boot, but adding the RTC battery to it (Adafruit ships their board with a coin cell holder you can solder onto the board) fixed that right up, and I’ve never had a problem getting a lock in doors.

Outside I can usually get 9+ satellites where inside I almost always stay at 7. So it would be a fair guess to say that in the outdoors with the GPS unit fully blocked by the enclosure you’d see roughly the same.

Thanks for the report.

Ransomhall is working on a module based on the same chip/antenna. Sounds like that will give me the performance I hoped for.

ianlee74 · July 10, 2012, 9:43am

@ Skewworks - I saw this and thought about you

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Skewworks · July 10, 2012, 11:35am

@ ianlee74 - Monty Python [em]and[/em] Fallout? Brilliant!

Architect · September 1, 2015, 3:55pm

Cool PipBoy project on instructables

Skewworks · September 1, 2015, 6:14pm

I’ve got the pip-boy edition of fallout 4 coming in Nov. You can be sure I’ll hack it.

Architect · September 2, 2015, 9:43am

@ Skewworks - Oh, man! I have missed that. Not available anymore

Skewworks · September 2, 2015, 10:37am

Don’t feel bad, I was checking for it daily and missed it. Had to pay double on ebay.

Architect · September 2, 2015, 1:58pm

It is more like five times more now on e-bay!

Anybody from Bethesda here?

ianlee74 · September 2, 2015, 2:00pm

Bethesda, TN is just 20 miles or so from where I live.

Skewworks · September 2, 2015, 2:01pm

…I still gotta come down for that visit…

ianlee74 · September 2, 2015, 2:19pm

Better hurry. Only two more months of summer!