Complete noob needs help with Pi3 components for Pipboy

ibagadget get it working and running first, then fit it together and see how much room you have left to add anything extra.

Your Pi with SDCard can host the music, you don't particularly need a USB storage for that, but you can add it.

Additional sensors can be connected directly to your GPIO pins when it comes to it, including GPS. It depends what software you're running

Plug it up and set it up first, then see where you go from there?

Let us know.

Thank you Christopher.

I do have a bit of an update that I hope doesn't affect things too much - I was mistaken in which unit I had. It's actually a Pi2 board. The guy I got it from put it in a Pi3 box just for something to hold it, and I hadn't looked too closely at the board. I hope it still has the functionality and processing capability for what I'd like to do. If it doesn't, then I guess I'll just go with the currently available program made for this unit.

If it will handle more peripherals, then that is awesome, but also leads to my next question:

Can you point me in the right direction as to what are the most economical GPS and Weather sensor chips to get that will work with this? Need rotary switches, speaker, and power management board as well. I have access to RC Helicopter batteries, so I can use those for power, just need to be able to convert voltage to the proper output for the board and peripherals.

Did I mention that I've never done this before?

Once I can get all the components lined up, I think I can find someone locally that can walk me through connecting everything and (hopefully) getting it all to work.

Thank you Christopher.

I do have a bit of an update that I hope doesn't affect things too much - I was mistaken in which unit I had. It's actually a Pi2 board. The guy I got it from put it in a Pi3 box just for something to hold it, and I hadn't looked too closely at the board. I hope it still has the functionality and processing capability for what I'd like to do. If it doesn't, then I guess I'll just go with the currently available program made for this unit.

If it will handle more peripherals, then that is awesome, but also leads to my next question:

Can you point me in the right direction as to what are the most economical GPS and Weather sensor chips to get that will work with this? Need rotary switches, speaker, and power management board as well. I have access to RC Helicopter batteries, so I can use those for power, just need to be able to convert voltage to the proper output for the board and peripherals.

Did I mention that I've never done this before?

Once I can get all the components lined up, I think I can find someone locally that can walk me through connecting everything and (hopefully) getting it all to work.

The Pi 2, depending on version, can be just as fast as a Pi 3 (older versions of the Pi 2 use the same processor chip). Otherwise it can be as capable.

The Pi 2 does not have onboard WiFi though, you have to add that via USB or an interface on the GPIO pins.

For GPS, that depends entirely on how your software wants to interface with it. Usually a GPS only gives information over a 'serial port'. That can either be via pins on your GPIO, or it can be via USB, so that's a decision to make.

As for weather sensor, what do you want to sense? Temperature? Humidity? Pressure? How do you want to communicate with them? Do you want the Pi to handle communication with them? Depending on how you answer these questions, depends on what hardware you get. Some sensors are 'all in one' and contain at least two, pressure and temperature, humidity and temperature, but usually not all three.

From my experience, find out how you want to display this information first, and then see what you can get that works with it - for example if you end up working with JavaScript you're going to find libraries for it for certain hardware to make your life easier, than if you choose Python which may have different libraries available.

Needs a starting point, I'd say if you have a screen, start getting that working first and identify the parts you have to hand.

Thank you Christopher. I think I will stick with Python, as that is the software that the original Pipboy program is written in. As you say, I guess I should get the board and screen up and running first, then go from there. If I can get the basic program running, then I guess I can always tweak its functionality later on as I get peripherals sorted out.

And if I can't, then at least I will have the basic setup working, and can finish off the rest of the gauntlet build without having to worry about space for extra features to squish in.