Eric Benson Emerges From the Vault with This Bomb-Proof Fallout-Impressed Vault-Tec Cyberdeck Construct

It is protected to say that maker Eric Benson is a fan of Amazon’s current live-action TV adaption of the Fallout post-apocalyptic role-playing franchise — as a fast look at his Vault-Tec themed cyberdeck will reveal.

“Jeff Bezos bringing Fallout to TV has impressed me to construct a cyberdeck able to withstanding a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland,” Benson writes of his creation. “EMP-hardened with a conductive shell, double faraday cloth layers, and Flex Seal insulation. Offline information libraries, navigation, alerts intelligence, plane monitoring, climate information reception, radio, and long-distance communication capabilities. [It’s built] to face up to a nuke — I imply, not a direct hit clearly. Would in all probability want a much bigger case for that.”

As is frequent in cyberdeck circles, the center of Benson’s construct is a Raspberry Pi 4 Mannequin B single-board pc — or, extra unusually, a pair of them working in parallel. There aren’t any fewer than 4 radio modules on board — a receive-only RTL-SDR, a HackRF One, a DigiRig, and a truSDX HF QRP — with capabilities together with plane monitoring, NOAA climate satellite tv for pc reception, AM/FM decoding, and transmission capabilities together with off-grid digital communication, and the power to obtain GPS alerts for location monitoring on a devoted 2.8″ TFT show.

Elsewhere within the Pelican iM222 Storm case is a ten.1″ touchscreen show, a NukAlert radiation detector — applicable, given the system is themed across the survivors in a world devastated by nuclear struggle — and a 2TB onerous drive full of offline copies of Wikipedia, WikiHow, varied Ted Talks, recipes, medical data, and extra. There is a Teensy 4.1 microcontroller, battery monitor, and a mechanical keyboard — and among the most belt-and-braces strategy to {hardware} safety you are more likely to discover.

“When the case is closed, it varieties an entire conductive shell across the inside electronics,” Benson explains. “The inside of the case has a double layer of Faraday cloth (held in place with rivets and conductive tape). The inventory Pelican O-ring was changed with a conductive gasket and the O-ring slot was lined with Faraday tape, and all potential weak spots had been painted over with a water based mostly nickel conductive paint.

“Then, the inside was lined with Flex Seal (yeah that man), to create a rubberized insulation layer, so the shielding is not shorted. Lastly, ferrite chokes had been positioned on lots of the wires contained in the case as a final line of protection.”

Extra data on the mission, which runs for round 14 hours from a single cost of its 12Ah LiFePO4 battery pack, is accessible on Benson’s Hackaday.io web page.