Fallout Cyberdeck
By Ben Everard. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
If things keep going the way they are, humanity might be reduced to living underground, eking out a subsistence living and waiting for the radiation on the surface to reduce to such levels as we can repopulate the earth. Let’s cross our fingers that this doesn’t happen – but if it does, this cyberdeck, built by Eric B and inspired by the video game (and now television series) Fallout.
The active electronics are housed within two layers of conductive insulation, acting as a Faraday cage in the event of
an electromagnetic pulse caused by a nuclear explosion. Battery life is an impressive 14 hours, and the device is loaded with tons of information for offline consumption – useful stuff, like medical information, Wikipedia, wikiHow and perhaps less usefully, TED Talks.

A range of software-defined radio apps gives the user the ability to communicate with satellites, track aircraft, pick up AM/FM radio and more, and computing power is provided by two Raspberry Pi 4s. It even has a radiation sensor, so you know when it’s safe to come out of Vault 33. Good luck!
Program a robot arm, with Raspberry Pi and Python code
Ben is the Editor of HackSpace magazine. When not wrangling words, he enjoys cycling, gardening, and attempting to identify wild mushrooms.
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