PIP-WATCH Version 2 Puts A Pip-Boy On A Wide-Screen Wrist Display

Plenty of makers have built Pip-Boy-themed wearables, but most reach for a roughly square or round display. Arnov Sharma’s PIP-WATCH Version 2 takes advantage of an oddball board instead: the Lilygo T-Display-S3 Long, with a 180x640 touch-enabled strip display that happens to suit Fallout’s wrist computer aesthetic unusually well.

What They Built

PIP-WATCH v2 is an ESP32-based wrist wearable built around that long, narrow touchscreen, recreating the Pip-Boy look in a form factor that reads more like an actual wrist-mounted instrument panel than a typical round or square smartwatch face.

How They Did It

Sharma picked the T-Display-S3 Long specifically for its shape, then worked through the build despite documentation for the board itself being patchy in places — a common problem with newer, more niche ESP32 dev boards. The result is build notes detailed enough that someone following in his footsteps can skip a lot of the trial and error he had to do firsthand.

Why It’s Worth Your Time

This pairs naturally with Huy Vector’s brass-and-copper Pip-Boy build, also covered here: same source material, but Sharma gets there by choosing the right unconventional display hardware rather than leaning on housing materials, which is its own kind of hack — knowing which oddball board exists and that it’ll fit the bill.

Go See It

Arnov Sharma’s project page is on Hackaday.io, and Hackaday covered the build with additional photos.