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

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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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[@camhadland6227]

"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

[@LukasJosai]

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

[@biomorphic]

@@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.

[@sic.4191]

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

[@Rohanology27]

The raw energy from this sentence is dwarfing the sun

[@MrBuckshot198722]

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

[@ristopaasivirta9770]

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

[@aaronjones5314]

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

[@vanimapermai]

4:06

[@moonpiedumplings3059]

@@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."

[@gileee]

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

[@Astares9]

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

[@Rajesh-Koothrappali]

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

[@The_Hero_Of_All_15]

Or 320lbs?

[@Rajesh-Koothrappali]

@@The_Hero_Of_All_15 or 480?

[@The_Hero_Of_All_15]

@@Rajesh-Koothrappali wait that's possible?

[@Rajesh-Koothrappali]

@@The_Hero_Of_All_15 spec into enough of the right stuff yeah

[@The_Hero_Of_All_15]

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

[@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

[@loganfisher3138]

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.

[@2kBofFun]

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

[@phoenixvance6642]

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

[@RowdyTheHitman]

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

[@dakotaclark6437]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@spacebearcadet746]

How about this: Sundial.

[@raccooncityhunk497]

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

[@polarknight5376]

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

[@CuppaLLX]

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

[@blackspell9150]

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.

[@Greenlaser]

totally amazing videogame idea actually as well

[@manuxx3543]

@@Greenlaser basically the metroid games

[@MSkwar]

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

[@ltnx9]

nice idea

[@wojciechbieniek4029]

@@bmw2610. I wonder what's the smallest projector available...

[@yamil8003]

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.

[@jamesiewalters2360]

How is there not a mic and speaker mod?

[@loganfisher3138]

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.

[@ReddwarfIV]

It's the PokeGear from gen 2 pokemon

[@ItsChevnotJeff]

I remember it being a thing in the original 2 fallouts where you can add a motion tracker in the maps, and the Stealth Boys kinda act as addons when using them, and there's also mods either with perks or more items

[@GregoryRobertsLx]

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

[@sodiumhydrocarbonate4707]

Nah, it's to boring

[@ridanindustries2975]

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

[@anthonyp4209]

GPS module - sync time from it.

[@veda-powered]

Nuclear power module

[@nictou]

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

[@antoniocialfi77]

My mans just made himself the pip-boy... Wait no, this is a pip MAN

[@glowingdawn9179]

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

[@danielleanderson6371]

The Pipfather

[@thomas6591]

The God-PIP-er

[@peasantinabottle4609]

@@danielleanderson6371 the PAPPY

[@Haverr1]

i laughed more than i should

[@ademrax01]

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

[@mememan2293]

i read that as pipe bomb-

[@mitchellbarton7915]

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

[@CFedits62]

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

[@mykaelredwood942]

Only if it's made by Samsung

[@sketchflix6425]

💀💀💀💀

[@sketchflix6425]

​@@mitchellbarton7915 "Allahu Akbar!!!"

[@Vanillanite]

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

[@egesanl1]

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"

[@Tmar22]

One must first ask what beer does Zach Freedman enjoy?

[@benklop]

@@egesanl1 I do actually have a spare VFD.

[@kalebdye4378]

I got some LSD for all of us.

[@jessewgeek]

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

[@OrangeC7]

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"

[@joaomartins2541]

😂😂 So true.

[@jehans.5997]

@@joaomartins2541 is pp

[@katanah3195]

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!

[@Rezorrand]

Man, you're halfway to a working tricorder there. There's a big prize involved too, go for it!

[@SuperAwesomeWeirdGuy]

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

[@jaredlee6591]

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

[@BarrackObamna]

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

[@hamood3690]

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

[@shawnmulberry774]

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

[@nosville22]

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

[@rahleek8730]

Thank you for generously going through every detail. There are an immense amount of applications, that your creative brainchild could have. I for one, learn a great deal from every one of your videos that I watch. Calling them videos don't do them justice. Thank you.

[@shaunburton1112]

you sir are an underrated genius, both in comedy and in electromatronics. subscribed

[@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.

[@onesadtech]

Love this idea, and the name!

[@heroslippy6666]

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

[@isaacbejjani5116]

@@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.

[@EtherealAuthor]

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

[@wesleymays1931]

@@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.

[@ryanpitchford4355]

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

[@pinaz993]

That's actually a really good idea.

[@PatrickHogenboom]

@@pinaz993 Has the right amount of overengineering 👍

[@xd-fu6ry]

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

[@rewrittenbytes1616]

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

[@absalomdraconis]

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.

[@senketsu_6650]

Yo literally had the exact same idea I had like 10 years ago in middle school with the modules and all of the whole thing absolutely beautiful to see something I happen to have thought of as well in the real world project looks amazing good work

[@skunkprints7952]

You are my hero. I wish I knew about. you when I was younger man. You kill it in every video. You're knowledge and humor is fantastic. I am wanting to learn more beyond my comfort zone because of this which is an gift to be able to do to others! Keep it up man!

[@SeanHodgins]

Does it come in a left handed version?

[@ZackFreedman]

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

[@absalomdraconis]

@@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.

[@JeremyFinch42]

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.

[@EmmanuelMessulam]

You can create your own module for that! Hahah

[@edumaker-alexgibson]

@@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...

[@Adam-my8qx]

"Yes this is all written in object oriented C++, Kill me" I Actually died laughing lololololollol

[@SkipSpotter]

Heavens to Betsy, that is a killer piece of kit. "OVER-ENGINEERED" is now my GOTO word! I hope one day to see a module that fires a workable military grade mini laser canon. Subscribed!

[@paulromsky9527]

Great video. I had an idea for this in 1979 in High School. I just drew what it would look like - electronics was not small enough at the time. Mine had plug in for a DMM and an O-Scpoe. I think I am going to make one with all sorts of Adapters I can get from Adafruit, Eleego, and such.

[@user-ok4pk2mp3e]

This is a legitimately really cool idea. The fact that you can just create new modules and pop them in could make it a really useful tool.

[@Jaayjeee]

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

[@dronesflier7715]

Damn that like count tho

[@wyatt8770]

This man is one lab accident away from being a super villain.

[@minetech4898]

This is inspiring to me more than most projects I see. I am inspired so much in fact, that I will likely change nothing about my day-to-day life.. but I will be happier.

[@Shadow__X]

10:16 "Inducting the Matrix" "Pressurizing my Wife" "Aligning the shmoo"

[@bennyswayofficial]

Ctrl F-ed you, man of culture

[@firSound]

"The very one that Bil Gates snuck into the vaccines".....hahahaha I love you.

[@boommastr1539]

6:55 I'm sure someone has pointed it out by now. But i love the reference on the board

[@user-df2fl1pj6q]

Undertale?

[@thebush6077]

You know, I started thinking "this is really cool I wonder if something like this could be useful" and then I remembered the FitBit Sense sitting on my wrist and remembered "oh yeah..."

[@peptojr8191]

My girlfriend calls me a nerd. I'm proud of that until i watch your videos. Then im just jealous.

[@peptojr8191]

HODL 🤣

[@biomorphic]

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

[@theprogrammer32]

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

[@truthofdsp]

twu

[@jesh3720]

this is the type of stuff you would find in a game about chernobyl

[@calecbrayers3739]

Say sike right now

[@razorstargazer]

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

[@antoninus2678]

@@razorstargazer shhh shhh, we cant let duty know

[@antoninus2678]

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

[@gyarik]

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

[@Ghostboy1006]

I really love the nerd energy you have here, and the amount of effort you put in to be entertaining and delivering scripted lines is extremely endearing to me, take my highest honor I can bestow upon without my monetary loss

[@Aaron_GKV]

i loved this gadget!! the only thing i would add, or change, is adding the posibility of itself rotating on your wrist, so you can have it sideways on your arm while pointing forward. And maybe even adding a little speaker for alert/error codes, like the old PC's, but that also may drain the battery and idk if the magnet can mess with anything...

[@breadproductions6139]

“Rendering your mom” is the best one.

[@dfprod.]

Still rendering…

[@Iknowhowbadthisnameis8828]

@@dfprod. F

[@bemnet_tsegaye]

at 5:03 right

[@crazygamerkasten446]

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

[@wesleymays1931]

Critical error: GL buffer overflow

[@adamleszczynski1109]

Maybe make a module with real time clock to sync time.

[@SolarShado]

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).

[@adamleszczynski1109]

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

[@QuantumFluxable]

@@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

[@mironinopetr6982]

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

[@QuantumFluxable]

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

[@demonswillgames]

Now I feel like my life is no longer complete if don't have one of these. That is by far the best tech I've ever seen. Love the work you've done man. Adding Sub.

[@pumachabra]

Just discovered this channel via a dark path 3D printing (ender 3 pro arrives tomorrow) and I’m pissed I didn’t know it existed! Keep up the awesome work! You do you Zack! *Where is the line of t shirts/stickers? 🤔

[@roxtaze5553]

Fun fact: In their basic concept Pip-boys(yep, there were mentioned more than one model, even the heavy-duty ones which covered the whole forearm and palm) too had the replaceable modules, although there were not so many sockets for them(1-2 instead of 4).

[@ElliotsLegoCreations]

Why would it have less tho?

[@ElliotsLegoCreations]

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

[@Concerned_Custodian]

@@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.

[@ElliotsLegoCreations]

@@Concerned_Custodian oh okay 👍

[@tuamaputanna2897]

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

[@JoshuaDiaz]

"You feel... something. You are filled with determination."

[@drivers99]

detemmination

[@Willow-jx1sp]

Well yes, but actually yes.

[@DanielMonteiroNit]

Nethack, right?

[@drivers99]

@@DanielMonteiroNit Undertale

[@eftorq]

*Hopes and Dreams starts playing*

[@michaelprovins9366]

Watched the whole video! I like tech but I don't understand a whole lot of it you're doing a really good job on these videos. I'm glad you decided to start youtubing

[@Bravo4Whiskey]

YES, I've been thinking of a similar overengineered but smaller SmartWatch with cartridges. One connector but depending on which contacts are used, the central microcontrolling unit talks to the cartridges with either TTL, I²C or other ways.

[@TheDrakanMaster124]

zack: "I've got 4 more of these bastards and I'm not sharing!" me: loads custom nerf blaster with malicious intent

[@Gamer420life]

Duum

[@rockstickcomics]

Zack has created a monster

[@aladoc6832]

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

[@tanmay______]

The virgin step counter smartwatch vs the chad air quality measuring Singularitron

[@donniesmidway]

I’ve been binging this stuff for a week now. I came up with an idea for a modular cyberdeck (or just a deck) with removable modules and components and I’m stoked to see it’s doable!

[@michelleslutpuppy4355]

Can. You buy them

[@Z_kun11]

make it marketable and shut up and take my money.

[@Kneightt]

This reminds me of something Motorola tried a few years back, where you could snap modules onto the phone. The only modules I remember are a little projector and a pro camera thing.

[@AskBin]

Just thinking about it, this would help me so much with my job. I work on cars and I could a few of these models on a literal daily basis. Thermoduel, flashlight, photon wrangler (I'm colorblind), thunderhand. If I could figure out a way to make a more compact version this thing would be insanely helpful

[@zhoutongyang5185]

sell a pip boy to this man

[@christosvolikakis1523]

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

[@ralexcraft990]

@@christosvolikakis1523 use the OLED module instead

[@samscam951]

@@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.

[@jakecannanite4558]

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

[@thelegend8570]

"[...]It's been out of production for years." Welp, dreams officially crushed.

[@soulextracter]

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

[@swiftfox3461]

Keep an eye out for eBay sellers.

[@Solusarian]

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.

[@swiftfox3461]

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

[@thelegend8570]

@@Solusarian Oh, nice!

[@bearwithabark]

This is the first vid of your's I have come across, but my gosh, I like your style. Keep up the good work. Great creative engineering piece.

[@bryandacosta1882]

If I was new I would say that the extra screen can be used for showing the dark useing a other one or just be a like a phone screen with smaller and closer pixels for pictures😊

[@jayff0000]

"Yes this is all written in object oriented C++ ... kill me." lmao ded 🤣

[@Bedbuggies]

"Yes, this is written in OOP C++, kill me." :^)

[@Wifgargfhaurh]

Very impressive! I could definitely imagine walking around the wastelands with something like this on my wrist

[@adventuresin9797]

I feel your pain on the apds 9960. Getting the gesture engine calibrated to get reliable readings is effort. And suggestion; add a gps unit. Bonus, you can use it to set the time after changing the battery.

[@martinvasilev6099]

That is the coolest smartwatch I've ever seen. Please continue to amaze.

[@KegaB3]

"i have four more of these bastards and im not sharing" im losing my mind thats the realest shit

[@SSZaris]

Gives me so much Alien vibes. I absolutely love the cartridges too. Reminds me of the PSP's camera from back in the day. I always felt like I was "hacking" the PSP when I installed it XD

[@thehouseofhorsepowerautobo4506]

Solar panel option? This is so cool!! Great video! Patina and all

[@mintzbuck]

"Colorado's craft beers" *Shows a beer from Michigan*

[@eponinesg]

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!

[@richmooremi]

I was also going to bring this up

[@Kimchi_Studios]

Craft beers found IN Colorado

[@FUKTxProductions]

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%

[@LigeValkyrja]

I raise you beer from Belgium.

[@jasdanvm3845]

4:45 Wangjangling Nerf... Locking monkeys... Evacuating beer... Crafting hot lava... Scrambling...

[@mdessureaults3]

The random lines loading screen is fucking hilarious! Evacuating beer.... Pressurizing my wife.... 🤣

[@linkcell]

Singularatron... I mean, as soon as he pull that out there is no ounce of doubt in the room that he is a... erm.. single.

[@lopypop]

Would an e-ink display be possible? It would be lighter, less breakable, and use less energy...but it probably wouldn't look as badass. 🙃

[@Yuzuki1337]

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

[@lopypop]

@@Yuzuki1337 good point!

[@fezbpu]

@@Yuzuki1337 you don't need to refresh the whole display at once: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZXVfp2kjqaUppY

[@FoodStampPhone]

“This brings us to the juiciest part on display, the display.” subscribed!

[@Jango1989]

Brilliant project and really well presented and edited! And the memes were just *french kiss*.

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

Cool stuff, I like how much of the hardware you built yourself. I think I would've just taken an old smartphone, forced it to be in landscape mode all the time and make the control buttons bluetooth (maybe just ripping them from a controller). However no idea how I'd actually connect the sensors to the phone, but I bet here's a way to do it. If I wasn't gonna look into it, I'd try connecting the sensors to the phones wifi or a seperate wifi module and then streaming that data via REST API to a webserver and then just using the browser on the phone to access the info.

[@treyfruge5797]

Oh damn, out of all the years of my internet maker spelunking, the ancient pictograms upon the almighty google, that was your face I had seen among the endless archives. Bravo, my friend. Lol in all seriousness your watch had a special place in my heart. Thank you for making a video about it!

[@stefan-js7qq]

I feel like a solar panel module would be a cool idea

[@operatorchakkoty4257]

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.

[@user-Coycat1985]

this is my first time watching you. im impressed. you have a great mind some great talents. keep crushing it dude.liked and subbed up. just wanted to say keep up the sick work. and mention things like that tech,,are going to be worth alot and you are paving the way in the feild . If i could suggest, maybe reaching out to NASA. that tech could be very important to someone someday. i know you will continue to do great things. jus keep doin you.

[@twistedlight9750]

Hello, this is the introduction video for me to your channel. I have loved this! Keep it up, you brilliant technophile.

[@oceanman2811]

You can't freeze time though, and you can't eat and drink and use drugs and use medicine. 11/10 it just works

[@MaybeAnnatar]

I unironically did a spit take at "and a taser, because you might be there!"

[@johnmorris7151]

I’ve got an idea for the extra display. So you press the button to open it then press another button and it’ll display the main thing of that button (excluding the laser and flashlight and whatever) like the the temperature thing, well, shows the temperature. The drunk detector tells you your wastedness. And so on and so forth.

[@toto99303]

Dude, you're amazing me every single time I watch a video from your channel. This is extremely cool gadget!!! A true joy for a DIY junkie like me :)

[@sirspamalot4014]

I love it, all it needs is a qwerty keyboard on a retractable cable and a LoRa Module and you'll have a pager too. You could absolutely add that with the expansion slots. I need to learn how to make those, I love cartridge expandability

[@Rezorrand]

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.

[@sirspamalot4014]

@@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

[@bornstellarnova1991]

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

[@sirspamalot4014]

@@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.

[@Darkmaster5629]

Nothing tops that over-engineered oscilloscope change my mind.

[@jackhendricks1100]

you should sell this kit cause this project looks super cool and sounds like a fun project I know I'd buy it!!!

[@Star_cab]

"The Freedman Pip-Boy, The perfect accessory for any occasion. Birthday's, parties, bar mitzvahs, graduations, weddings, Job interviews and eliminating zombies in a post-apoltic wasteland."

[@adamchurchill2354]

Hmmm, no room for a backup battery to keep the time on battery swaps? Sounds like a great chance to add a "Time backup" module!

[@anduro7448]

or a spare battery module

[@thegrate1521]

Smart "watch" also, can you link to that library for the loading screen?

[@wirabros6709]

Taser module would be cool tbh and maybe calls it electrobite, so basically when its plugged in the module will have extended wires connected to a finger socket (glove works too but takes time to wear it) now your finger is now a weapon :)

[@jdmeesey]

The relevance that this project has given that line from Spy Kids about the big watches is astonishing.

[@onesadtech]

Watched this a while back, and recently re-found this channel, had to rewatch this cause it's just so dang cool! Great work man! 😁 Honestly could see this being a super useful tool for technicians in various fields. I can see a few things on there that would help with vehicle diag, my ideal one would be able to read trouble codes, hahaha.

[@Seadg]

Needs nixie's somewhere e: Clock module that's just a fat bank of nixie tubes

[@DiddyReviews]

Just stumbled on this channel and I'm kind of hooked now. Do a video making cool things for pc/pc gamers. Maybe you've already done one?

[@Excronix]

Would be so dope to see a redesign of this in metal or higher quality materials

[@designersmind3140]

How you make stuff that is so polished yet at the same time so janky is beyond me and I love it

[@alexmcqueen2748]

Ricky wanted to know "do you have a Geiger counter? Do you have a god-damned Geiger counter!?!"

[@restcure]

Mine is in the shop.

[@zach4505]

Have a time saver module that you put in when swapping a battery. The module has power and/or saves the time and counts how much time has passed until it senses power from your deivce.

[@PGtheVRguy]

This has probably been one of my favorite Zach Freedman projects

[@justinsmith26]

"Yes, this is all written in Object Oriented C++... Kill me" :-) That got me, not gonna lie.

[@AwkwardHypernerd413]

not gonna lie, i like the first smart watch's 5 straps

[@Omega_Mart_Employee_K1Z]

WE NEED MORE OF THIS!!!!!!

[@Random1105]

very good, it would be better with a small screen, which focuses mainly on taking text but if you put the camera module you can see it on the screen, which can be used to send text messages, calls, voice messages, heartbeat sensor , etc. All of this would be more comfortable with a screen and so sometimes you give more functionality to the homemade pip boy