It is as accurate as I can make it, with no sacrifice to fit anything in. The Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV Accurate edition (not yet finished) is the version for the serious tinkerer. My apologies to anyone who wanted the accurate version.) While I might do it at some point, don’t expect it to happen in the foreseeable future. To design it I need to completely redo everything about the design (a 30 hour job) and I simply cannot find the motivation to do it with all other projects that I want to do. ( Edit 26-11-2015: The accurate version of the Pip-Boy 3000 Mk4 has been postponed until further notice. The gauges however cannot be lit, there simply isn’t enough room to fit lighting with the phone in the way. The lights on the Pip-Boy can be 3D printed in clear plastic, and can be lit using colored LEDS. It does have a latch mechanism and a tape player. To make room for the phone, some of the buttons have been merged with the body of the Pip-Boy. No tools are required to place and remove the phone (though it still take a half a minute or so). To access the phone, 2 knobs near the tape player allow the front to come off. It is simply a case of printing it to have a usable Pip-Boy. It can hold (as the name suggests) a phone that is within a certain size range. The Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV Phone edition is the version that will be most useful for most people. The standard sizes that the pip-boy comes in are: 100%, 108% and 115%. If these holes become 10% larger, the screws will no longer fit. Some holes in the parts are designed for the screws to tap threads. Simply scaling the parts up is not only time consuming and prone to mistakes, it messes up the design. This is because the previous version, the Pip-Boy 3000, was already too small for some people, and the Mark IV is even smaller in some regions. The 3D printed Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV comes in 3 sizes. For the phone version of this 3D printed version, the proportions have also been broken to make the phone fit. In some cases, dimensions are broken by around 1cm (which is way more than it sounds like). Bethesda has fixed this by breaking some of the proportions and dimensions to make a smartphone of decent size still fit. Smartphones have become bigger since fallout 3, and this Pip-Boy is smaller than the previous one. ![]() At the E3 it was announced that the collectors edition had a wearable Pip-Boy that could hold a phone, and so this 3D printed on also needed to be able to do that. The people at Bethesda really tried their best to make the Pip-Boy as difficult as possible.Īnother thing that was a real challenge was getting a phone to fit in this Pip-Boy. ![]() I like to make as much features working as possible, and to get some of the features (most notably the tape player) working, was a real challenge. Another challenge is the huge amount of features in the Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV. This does not give the kind of reference I usually have. The Pip-Boy is already extremely difficult to design with proper reference, but now there is only a teaser trailer and the E3 video. Now there is a difficulty with this project, there is only limited reference.
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