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Imagine the joy coming across a skeleton in the wasteland and you notice it's grasping an interesting looking box that contains all of humanity's knowledge

Now you only need to make the enclosure EMP-proof and you've got a winner for the post-apocalyptic survival game...

Don't forget to put the words "DON'T PANIC" on the back in large, friendly-looking letters.

You should have a separate switch for the monitor - so if you only want to use it as a hotspot you don't waste energy on a display. Although, you could have it sleep too and wait for a touch input, but that costs energy too... A simple switch would likely give you more usage.

Missed opportunity: solar power bank.

Offline topo maps would be awesome to add to this

"We want survival articles" *skips over chemistry and goes immediately to coffee* Videogames have taught you well fine sir.

basically creating magic boxes that will be destroyed as blasphemy or witchery in the bright future apocalyptic world

so much potential here. With a bigger case, you can add supplies for repairs, a small solar panels, extra batteries, additional accessories....

"Japanese language learning" great, in case of apocalypse I can watch anime without subs

Ah yes, Bulbapedia. For when you're trying to catch and train animals in the apocalypse. You never know when you might run into another trainer!

The Mechanicus are going to be lining up for that STC!

The only thing this needs is a faraday cage over-case in the event of a CME or EMP event. Good work!

Including the power conversion circuitry to be able to charge from unreliable or variable power sources (like solar panels, turbines, or something powered by a campfire) would be cool if there's room left over near the battery. And ports for pos/neg leads for that kind of thing too.

Some ideas to enhance it: - No movable parts as they can break. So no fan, but passive cooling. Metal box will come in handy for EMP reasons anyways. - Add a solar panel that will keep the battery charged, even if fully empty. Never know how long the Zombie apocalypse lasts. - Include basic programming tools (C++ comes to mind) so it can be expanded if needed. - Here Maps with offline world data. The entire world with navigation running on the PI.

I couldn't really get over the Pi showing the ⚡ icon on screen which means it's not getting enough power.

this case need faraday cage... and gps, topomaps, solarpanels :-) great work anyway

Is this the guy from Collins lab? What a great idea. Knowledge will be worth more than food. I've started building mine.

Well, this is the most useful video for the pi that I have seen yet. I can understand how this would be good information to have in a survival (long-term) situation. Thanks for the video.

This is awesome. My only suggestion would be more clicky switches on the bottom part.

A mini printer would be cool to make a book specific to the situation.

The free online encyclopedia that no one will ever edit again!

I did this with my nook color. Used kiwix as well. Just not all of Wikipedia. Science, chemistry and technology. With a portable solar panel 21 watts. My ip rating is a zip lock bag. When camping LOL But I do find this project interesting. Might think about making one. Thanks for the info.

how long battery life is posible with a medium xhamster backup??? i mean thats also a importent part of human "knowledge" :)

"bulbapedia" yeah we really need to know all about pokemon during the apocalypse

"Off Grid Wikipedia" aren't those called encyclopedias?

It has what everyone needs in an apocalypse situation, bulbapedia.

Does this also archive the talk pages on wiki articles? I feel that'd be really important to include, as you can see what's going on under the hood in more controversial articles and such.

You need a DC-DC UP Converter set to 5.12 to 5.2 Volts to get rid of the lightning bolt and power your USB Host controller chip properly ;)

ah yes bulbapedia very important for any bug out scenario

Everyone's ideas: cool robot, helps people My ideas:

Im glad Matt Damon is still acting at his age

I don't think I'm going to see the end of the world, but that's a fun project!

Great job! May be I will do something similar in the future. Now I did a Touch Screen Case for a LinuxCNC control on Orange Pi PC.

I just downloaded the offgrid Wikipedia file as well as prepping & survival pdfs to a spare phone with pdf app & the kiwis app installed for reading Wikipedia files etc offline. Shove it into a Faraday cage and that's the apocalypse knowledge base sorted. Smartphones/tabs are more user-friendly than raspberries.

The more I watch these the more I believe we are making those STC's from war hammer. When I get the money I'll try my hand at making one.

Looks great! I second the suggestion by WoodmanFFM to make the enclosure EMP-proof as well. Another suggestion would be to add an indicator LED to show when the battery is charging (been there where the charger was connected but didn't work), and when the battery is fully charged.

And here I was worrying I'd have to print out all those zombie survival guides.

This was the perfect opportunity for a eink display and some solar panels!

I'd add exhaustive books for minerology, metallergy, and chemistry. Books for tech would be great too- stuff that could teach a person how to build almost all tech from scratch; tool making, metal working, machining, glass works, pottery, plastics, paper, electronics, computer chips.

The lightning bolt means your are undervolting. Geekworm makes a good UPS that runs on those 18650 lion batteries used in vapes and laptop battery packs. It had auto shutdown and also an external lighted button for power on/off. It will also fully power off during shutdown after rpi halts

You jumped the best part: The mounting on the casing :(

Cant believe I only found this video now! excellent content, inspired much to make one of these!!! subscribed!

Spiffy project. 80GB for all of Wikipedia? I'm floored. I noticed the under-voltage on the display. I assume the issue is that the 7" display, plugged into the Pi 4, has the Pi trying to draw more power than the PowerBank can provide? (by my math, you would need between 3,5 and 4,0A to eliminate the warning) Any thoughts on a replacement battery?

I would like to see a solar panel on the case. So you'd be really "off-grid". It could charge the battery even if it takes days.

You could fit all of that in a smartphone as well. Including the hotspot, if you root the device.

this is very cool, there are a few things i'd change but the overall concept is sweet. thanks.

We should start building these for people in other countries to use as educational devices in areas with little to no internet service.

I was literally thinking in my head search “cat” and he did lol

Loved the video. Had you thought about making one that would be protected from EMP? Being disconnected from any power grid helps, but I figured a metal faraday type enclosure would be better.

Love the show. I would suggest getting rid of the AudioJungle watermark on the opening audio though :0

Something to recharge the batteries without a socket would also be nice, something like Solar panels or a Dynamo 😉

it's good there's an 'and reference library' tacked on there, so many things that would make wikipedia barf if you tried to wedge it on there, just not available. surgical manuals for instance.

that looks vary good

A company made an offline wikipedia device years ago that was sold in stores. It used a touchscreen but was text only. It had a micro sd card that could be updated, not from the device as it did not have any kind of connectivity. The touchscreen was the old style and not that great to use.

This is an excellent idea! Thanks for sharing. Is there a mechanism to automatically update the data? New knowledge is added to Wikipedia every day. Would be good to have a weekly/monthly refresh.

I've used xowa to download the entirety of wiki, wikiversity, books and news, in English, back in 2016. Approximately 243GB of data (back then) in a magnetic disk. I then covered it in antistatic bag and cardboard, and I keep it in a metallic cover under a soft purse, and it's either stored in a wooden cabin under meters of cement (the building I live in) or a cooler bag inside another backpack when on the go. I now keep an SMG with it and I'm damn proud of it all !!! XD LOL I gotta say, in all honesty, that I'm for real. I've also developed a lossless compression algorithm and I plan on printing the whole thing with it (maybe in metallic sheets too). The only drawback is that, at the moment, I need the same amount of space in ram to do that and I can't overcome this problem. I did manage to find alternative ways but they're a mess. TMI, I know, but who knows. Maybe this saves a life or, should I ever die, lucky those who find the thing (and the rifle). Humanity has a chance ! XD

An e-ink display would be awesome

Great video, and I plan to build a smaller version of this but I do have a couple of questions. In the video you mention that you figured out how to make use of an attached drive instead of the SD card. Do you have documents on that somewhere? also how did you get the Rasp Pi to start up in the browser?

Cool project!

In the future we need to put offline AI chatbots on cyberdecks lol

It looks like your power bank isn’t able to provide enough current/voltage for the Pi 4 (indicated by the symbol on the top right of your display)! You should probably rethink the power side of this design as you really need something capable of delivering 3A at 5.1V, which most standard power banks won’t do. Also, it would make a lot of sense to have a switch to kill power to the display . . . if you are running this as a ‘hotspot’ to be viewed from a phone/tablet/computer, then you don’t want to be wasting power on a screen and backlight.

Some kind of EMP protection (idk if that would be possible), and a solar panel you retrieve from inside and i think it would be apocalypse ready

Hmm, at first I thought this was great idea, a way to look up information in an off grid situation, whether it was a survival issue or just isolationism. However after some testing, I don't see the value in having a portable wikipedia in either situation. At a basic level, I searched for "how to start a fire" and got nothing about how to create fire....instead I got a page about a music album called "How to start a fire" . I tried "How to fish" and "how to build a shelter" none of which was very helpful. I think tried smaller segments like Shelter, fishing, survival , etc etc and nothing was useful. I like the idea but it would be better if you had something like this where you could look up information you would actually need in the scenario its trying to plan for.

This is a cool project but………… you can also install Kiwix on an old iPad (as long as it’s a 128GB model or higher) and slap a high-quality beefy rugged case on it. And if you must, you could keep a rugged outdoor battery bank with it, especially if it has a built in solar panel (which often have slow charge rates, but if the panel sitting in the sun all day gives you a few hours of iPad charge, that’s good enough in emergency/disaster situations).

Lightning bolt... Underpowering or Overheating... Consider using a Pi3 rather than 4 as it will need less juice and lets face it, the wiki purpose does not need the computing power of a pi4. Epaper for the screen if its only for reading could also be a better power saver in an apocolypse scenario... and dude... what about recharging the battery & solar... definitely needs a part 2

2.0 should be EMP hardened, solar charge ability, and possibly a higher end Pelican case.

19:40 I have’t watched yet but imagine a program that downloaded each oage but also downloaded the sources linked. I guess the next step would be to download some log of the reasons for why it’s written and generally download wikidata.

Was there a way to add external storage im interested in this whole KIWIX install now

What code did you use to make the virtual keyboard pop up from a momentary switch? 14:10

This. this would be the device I would take back in time with me

Nice design but I feel v2 could use a ruggedised solar charging system built into the lid to trickle-charge the battery over time.

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I need an offline / off-grid google earth. Any videos?

You just need a button the shut the display and a solar panel to charge the battery and you've got an amazing thing.

Only thing missing is a solar panel for true off the grid survival, maybe even a hand crank generator :P

I see ArmA in the explorer. I like!

one good Carrington Event this is destroyed, needs the box to also be a Faraday cage.

Which Raspberry Pi version do you recommend? Is the Pi 4 8GB worth getting, or would it be too much of a power drain, and total overkill?

This is so cool!

I have been trying to do this since the first raspberry pie came out

Noticed the bit in the beginning about potentially wanting more storage and saw this is about 10 months old, 256GB Sandisk SD cards are quite affordable at about $35 a pop.

if you did decide to add a mouse, you could hook up a mouse sensor. If you flip the x axis it can work similar to a trackpad.

how much did this cost? wouldn't it make more sense to have a different power plug since micro usb is going extinct?

this is cool, I would personally want to add solar cells so that it can easily be recharged

Thanks Matt Damon!

It would be nice if you had a full farraday cage around it. To make it survive EMP pulses.

This reminds me of NODE

You can do this on your smartphone if you want, download Kiwix from the App Store.

This thing needs a big trackball.

I had thought of something like this, although I'd probably use a Pi Zero W for better battery life. I assume that the Kiwix software doesn't require a crazy amount of processing power. I would also get a bit more sophisticated in terms of power, such as having a solar panel built in, as I would expect not to have access to power to recharge in an apocalypse situation. I would also make sure to have a way to turn off the display for hotspot-only use, and preferably a custom battery solution with some indication of charge level. But this is still cool

Gday Great idea , possibly expand it to Solar panel on the outside, speaker and RLT SDR card Also needs a RED BUTTON and some switch's

interesting, very useful.

Nice build.

we want more cyber deck pc builds

Excellent project!

Might want a printer while your at it. That way you can print out the specific knowledge you need in case the unit becomes unavailable

Thought I'd try to make one. Just wondering if you thought I could add an SDR software to find radio to that kit? Give myself the ability to listen to radio frequencies and have access to Wikipedia.

a bit late to the party but it would be good to have the screen on the button and put where is the scene now a solar panel, cooling can be solved with some copper stripes.