CyberPack VR

This part felt really awkward but was also kinda fun.

And then some silly posed shots of what it looks like when carried or whatever.

And finally just a thing I did in the terminal in the .zshrc for fun.

The larger interior power supply cooling fans inspired this design for the little twin 40mm fellas that help cool the pc in the mesh exterior pocket. Not sure how much I need to engineer a shape for these, I figure they can just kinda be propped against the edge of the computers exhaust. We'll see!

I decided to add switches using inline usb cables so I could change around what gets toggled power. I chose usb SS cables cause I figured they'd handle more power just in case. I didn't realize they had more than the typical 4 wire cable. Google was semi helpful, as it turns out there is a lot of inconsistency with the internals of a USB 3 cable. I used my rad usb testing thingie to discover that the braided cable shielding was where the ground was, which allowed me to successfully connect the toggle switch after two failed trials. Yay!

Look! It clicks!

So what I discovered yesterday when trying to install these things is that my attachment design was flawed, and the position in the pack where I want to install them is tricky. It kept falling apart, and then I broke one of the solder joints trying to jam it in there. So this morning I redesigned the patch panel a bit (adding counter sunk nuts to the OUTside) and will now attempt to resolder everything approximating the pictured configuration so I am able to actually plug stuff in here from the top.

Counter sunk detail. This allows the whole shebang to be installed without the switches falling out, or without a crappier design I had printed out where everything was sandwiched together creating too much height and fragility.

Installed! Not connected to anything yet, as I'm still working out some wiring but these will connect to (in order): Wifi Pineapple 5ghz Wifi Pineapple module ...something. I am thinking of the alfa wifi adapter but not positive. These feel and sound so great this is kind of a weird dream come true for me I love these things.

This is a great example of how tough it is to get a nice smooth look when working with a soft fabric case. It's wavy and wrinkly and clearly I'm lacking a skill here, but I still really like the way it came out. CLICK

Here's the inside connectors. Doing my best to prevent a tangled mess of spaghetti in here.

From the outside it's nice and clean and industrial. Fun to see it all coming together.

These webbing clip thingies I have are way too thick to fit the pineapple case. Will trim.

I cut them. It was a giant mess. I hope the used portion doesn't unravel like a looney toones sweater.

It is mounted nice and solid here now. Clean.

Internally what you don't see are stupid oversized buckles and poor sewing technique.

Starting to clean up the wiring. This is the transfer area between hardware and power supplies. Also home of small wifi dongles.

This is the home of the power supplies. Gets hot so need fans. Also the space where the oculus rests during transport.

Simple design just holds everything together solidly against the fabric.

Set on the right can accommodate up to 3; currently configured to hold 2 and a bolt in the empty spot to help hold it together.

Setup on the left can accommodate 4, currently holding 2, a bolt in an empty spot and a little led indicator hooked up to a USB spot on the pc so I'll know when everything is on. Kinda hacky but that's ok for now.

Left set is for the 5ghz pineapple add on. Right set is for alfa dongle attached to the pi.

Let's start with the bad news: turns out the tiny PC I have has a short somewhere that has killed the hdmi and at least one of the usb ports.  I thought it might have been a CMOS thing, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  Crap.

The good news is I think that means the umbilical I made utilizing the Russian aviation quick release connector may actually be functional.  So that's fun.

This has made me reevaluate the heart of this project (the windows 10 box). Initially I was just looking for the smallest cheapest box I could find.  This was functional but when running the Immersed app, it was very laggy and unsatisfactory.  This was due to the fact that Immersed, as far as I understand it uses the gpu to send virtual screen renders over the wire to the Oculus. Apparently in order to be most productive in the virtual space I need a gpu better than the 256MB that comes onboard the celeron I had employed.

Now I just gotta find an NVidia card with a PC built around it.

/Intel NUC Enthusiast 11 enters the chat.

Terminal from the front.

Underside details, the thing is so comfortable to hold and move around with the handle!

All the bits

Hold it like a shovel if you want

Time to splice the hdmi cable for the umbilical. I've been dreading this and am super intimidated but here goes nothing.

I'm terrible at this but it's coming together. The connector is dirty and I should have cleaned it. The joints are all terrible, but I guess we'll see what happens!

Test number one is totally a success! Holy crap! While connecting it, I lost at least one joint but it must have been one that passes audio or something as the image came through clean. I'm going to try to clean up the joints tomorrow and add solder to them, and then continue to the USB portion of the umbilical which are only 4 wires each so hopefully no big deal. Famous last words.

Pretty excited about this! Spent a couple days during off hours designing and printing test parts to create this plug holder for the terminal. It's now "done" and I can get to work completing the umbilical.