Cramming two potentiometers on the panel makes it deviate quite a bit from the reference, but so be it: Of course, the original designer didn’t need to think about scale too much. I went with dial knobs, since there isn’t much in the way of user input devices in the picture. These may be (rather small) knobs for dials, or some cable jacks, or something else.

3a: On the left hand side, there are two roundish things.

The size of the display was one of the main deciding factors in the design.Īctually the date panel in the screenshot is a part of the logo panel, but I liked the idea of a more modular construction, so I added them as separate panels. I went with a 5″ display with dimensions of 68 x 118mm. Also, none of that matters much since there are only so many different LCDs available. However, the display on the screenshots from FO1/2 is not in a 5:3 (1:0.6) aspect ratio. “ 09:42”.Īccording to the lore, the Pip-Boy has a 5″ x 3″ monochrome display. At this stage I’m just going with a static display of the date and time when the first bombs fell, i.e. Now, I could’ve just ignored this and gone for screen accuracy, but now I have the option of revisiting this panel later, and maybe adding a functioning date panel. Note how there needs to be a fair amount of margin above and below the numbers to allow space for the wheels. The first thing I noticed when I started designing this panel was that there just wasn’t enough space for the wheels! It looks like there are mechanical wheels with the numbers printed on them, and the correct date and time are shown by rotating the wheels. This is the widget that shows you the in-game date and time, and works also as an alarm clock. Let’s look at the different components from the screenshot: I decided to go with a wrist-mount, as that appears to be the current consensus on the matter. There even appears to be some disagreement as to whether the Pip-Boy 2000 was a handheld device, or worn on the wrist. Pretty much everything there is to go on by are the screenshots from the game.

There isn’t all that much reference material for the original Pip-Boy 2000 (which I might as well call “Pip-Boy 2000 Mk I”, to distinguish it from the Mk VI that appeared in Fallout 76). Current design – front side Current design – back side The Pip-Boy will be powered by a Raspberry Pi with a 5″ LCD. I’m designing the prop in Blender, and mostly 3d-printing the parts. Here’s another one of my projects that has been on the back burner for quite a while: A replica Pip-Boy 2000, as originally seen in Fallout 1, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics (with minor differences).

Fallout 4 handheld pipboy