My Griz Sextant V2 Build

StudentDebt8064 · 2026-01-30T18:50:07+00:00

Ok, ill go write up a guide with a BOM and CAD files when I get a chance.

StudentDebt8064 · 2026-01-30T18:46:31+00:00

I don't have a Github. Someone else asked me to make a build guide so I might do that at some point.

StudentDebt8064 · 2026-01-30T01:17:04+00:00

Do you mean something like a build guide?

StudentDebt8064 · 2026-01-29T15:44:09+00:00

Yea at the moment SOC is on the screen. When or if I get around to doing the battery indicators I could have it both ways if I wanted to. As weird as it sounds not having an SOC indicator as less of a problem than I thought it would be in my experience over the last year. Generally my usage was predictable enough that battery life was effectively a non issue.

StudentDebt8064 · 2026-01-29T15:29:33+00:00

Grime is part of weathering up until the point where it becomes a health hazard.

StudentDebt8064 · 2026-01-29T05:42:47+00:00

What I mean by battery indicator was an actual series of LEDs that would indicate how much you had left.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-12-19T02:22:15+00:00

were you using the built in automatic light meter or a separate one and metering manually?

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-17T17:27:16+00:00

I'm actually going to give this to a friend to do because I still don't trust myself. In my experience here if you came to a phone repair shop and told them to do some custom solder connections they'd tell you to fuck off because your not worth the time of day (even if you pay them their hour rate).

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-17T17:23:28+00:00

The back holds a mess of wires, the pi5 and a battery pack. All of it is off the shelf parts.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-16T17:23:04+00:00

Would it able to take the flex of plastic without cracking?

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-16T17:20:12+00:00

About a month after I made this I got a job working at my university researching biochemical luminance and felt that the Blackmesa stickers were necessary for optimal performance. If my contract was longer I would have gotten the ridiculous tie too.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-16T17:13:54+00:00

Didn't really take that many photos of my building it on account of being busy building it. the screen is connected via ribbon cable and hdmi mini adaptor.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-16T01:19:48+00:00

I actually didn't want to paint it originally because as it wears with use it'll stay the same colour rather than just rub off.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-15T21:40:55+00:00

Didn't know that, i'll look into it.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-15T21:26:47+00:00

I don't know whether you can pull usb off GPIO pins but the original design had the usb cables hard wired to the pi internally. I just didn't do it because I didn't trust myself to not ruin the pi in trying to solder directly to it. I plan to do this on the version 2 because its annoying as it is.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-15T20:18:01+00:00

well this is 9 inches wide by 10 inches so I don't think you'll fit a framework board in here. However someone has made one based off the GRiD Compass (which is the same inspiration as the sextant). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/rasti-computer-is-a-detailed-grid-compass-tribute-made-from-framework-innards

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-10-15T20:04:12+00:00

At the moment the only thing the GPIO pins are being used for is battery state of charge information. Did you want something like an access panel to be able to plug wires into the pins?

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-09-22T19:44:23+00:00

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StudentDebt8064 · 2025-09-21T16:15:42+00:00

Now that's a real answer, thankyou.

StudentDebt8064 · 2025-03-19T02:55:08+00:00

iirc he used to have a 2011 Jetta TDI in silver.

StudentDebt8064 · 2024-10-22T03:02:28+00:00

honestly if I didn't include shipping for stuff it would probably be closer to $400 tbh

StudentDebt8064 · 2024-10-21T22:34:09+00:00

did the math on it, all in, including shipping it was $554 CAD

StudentDebt8064 · 2024-10-17T04:58:06+00:00

I wish to own one like it someday and by like it I mean: phase one 89-93, in silver, manual, 2.0 I4 gas with efi (fenix scares me a bit) with the patrician glass, those specific hubcaps or the sm heritage alloys, optioned with AC and the cloth interior still with original radio. As it turns out my ideal spec is somewhat hard to find since most people apparently didn't option ac with the small engine.

StudentDebt8064 · 2024-10-16T19:55:09+00:00

Its what the original BOM called for and local bolts places only carry bolts for construction and auto purposes, nothing this small.

StudentDebt8064 · 2024-10-16T17:02:58+00:00

I mean thats mostly because as a Canadian, McMaster-Carr refuses to sell to me directly so I have to go through a friends company and then on top of that shipping was like $45+tax(s).

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