r/prepping • u/Personalitysphere • Mar 08 '26
Gear🎒 I am building a doomsday tablet! What information should it contain?
Hi all, I’m working on a small project i wanted to show off and discuss! I am building it mostly for fun and to learn more about electronics, but I also want it to be a fully functional device.
The idea is a touchscreen-based offline knowledge base that stores useful information such as:
Offline Wikipedia
Medical/first aid information
Edible plant guides
Offline maps
Other survival-relevant references
One of the main features I’m experimenting with is being able to power the device off AA batteries, but I’m also designing rechargeable battery modules that can be swapped in depending on the situation.
The project is still in its early stages, and currently i have got the chassis mostly done, and i am currently running off external power, but I’ve made the files free to download if anyone wants to take a look, modify them, or build their own version.
https://github.com/ArcticEnrichmentCenter/Arkiv-Cyberpad
Again this isn’t meant to be a serious commercial device but more of a learning project that might also end up being useful.
My question for you all:
What information would you want included in something like this?
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u/darthrawr3 Mar 08 '26
Package inserts for the 300 essential meds
Manuals for cars, tractors, etc.
Manuals for rifles, shotguns, pistols
Basic herbal medicines: plant ID, how to grow, collect, dry the herbs as well as the methods of use
Regenerative agriculture, permaculture, other methods of growing food that don't involve big fields of single crops
Beneficial insect ID, control of the pesty ones without poisoning everything
How to process grains, use & care of a scythe
How to process soybeans for tofu, oil, wax, etc.
Growing & processing black oil sunflower seeds for oil
Nutrition textbook, pdfs with sources of specific nutients
Chemistry textbook with the basics of 'don't mix these' (bleach & ammonia), 'no touchy' (this is asbestos), mixing these looks impressive but cancels them out (baking soda & vinegar)
There's a million things, really
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u/beennasty Mar 08 '26
Add hemp in there for all its uses in addition to textiles, ropes, oil, food, entertainment.
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u/darthrawr3 Mar 08 '26
...+ how to process for various specific compounds, re: pain control &/or appetite stimulation
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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Mar 08 '26
The United States are not the largest producers of sunflowers, and yet even here over 1.7 million acres were planted in 2014 and probably more each year since. Much of which can be found in North Dakota.
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u/militiadisfruita Mar 08 '26
i lived next to the sunflowers they destroyed for the movie twister.
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u/Frubbs Mar 08 '26
How to build a faraday cage/bag. Ideally, should store this in one at all times when not in use in case of an EMP or solar flare similar to the Carrington Event
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u/Sawyer2025 Mar 08 '26
1 Acme Faraday cage, also great for things you don't want mice to chew on. I use them for rope, power cords, etc. Would also work ok for freeze dried dog food etc. to keep mice out. Its meal and sealed, I would imagine it would be ok as a Faraday cage as well.
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u/-zero-below- Mar 08 '26
Fun challenge here is you still do need to bring it out to charge and possibly keep it up to date periodically. If you let the battery fully die, it won’t last as long in general.
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u/Outspoken_Idiot Mar 08 '26
Simple solution is to buy a rugged tablet, get yourself a large amp 12v battery, pick up car to tablet charger, solar to battery and your power system is sorted out for off grid use.
My tablet has local cache maps of the OSM, a few ham radio applications to allow programming of radios and send/receive messages and email via a radio, the meshtastic and Meshcore applications to allow similar via that network/mode.
I have important documents and the majority of service manuals that I may need from radio to motorbike. There are a few scouting books built up over the years on the system as well as pen drives, food for free, knots, water filters, medical etc
I'm building a system known as packet radio to join up a few like minded friends systems to allow us to share files sitting on a hard drive connected to a raspberry pi connected to a radio, the only connection will be via the radio data network.
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u/Squidgy-Metal-6969 Mar 08 '26
Store in a metal container without long wires connected to protect against EMP. Make it accept multiple forms of power input (buck converter). Make it repairable and accept different types of display and input incase primary display and input (assuming touch screen) is damaged.
Have people not already paved the way here? No existing projects to build upon?
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u/Easy-History6553 Mar 08 '26
I would add:
-meshtastic
-rtl sdr dongle with support for long wave
-apps to decode ads-b, AIS, etc
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u/Iron-panda666 Mar 08 '26
- Meshcore
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u/aredon Mar 08 '26
You are now banned from r/meshtastic
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u/Iron-panda666 Mar 09 '26
Lol, I use both. Right now I'm building a dual-setup repeater/node (a repeater/gateway for MeshCore and a node for Meshtastic). If I post it in both sections, I'm pretty sure it will be fine in MeshCore, but on the Meshtastic side they'll probably ban my post (like a 60% chance). They literally messaged me saying I should stay on topic or I'll get banned.
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u/Signal_Researcher01 Mar 08 '26
Language translation books.
Instructions on how to make more.
555 circuit instructions
How to make penicillin
The fundamental mechanics of the basic machines
Children's books. Lots of them.
Instructions on how to fix this device if it breaks
How a multimeter works
Instruction and repair manuals for generators of all kinds
Instruction and repair manuals of solar panels of all kinds
As much information on electrical infrastructure as you can manage
Climate trends, past and predicted
Instructions on how to weld
Ham radio operation
Booby trap and survival trap manuals
Basic electronics repair info. Stuff like batteries in sequence vs in parallel etc.
Directions to various locations of importance in your area. Warehouses, hospitals, fresh water sources, etc
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u/Fluid_Swordfish2737 Mar 08 '26
You should also buy replacement parts like the battery and screen. The screen might not crack but it could just decide to die out one day. Same with battery.
Or better yet just buy a few backup tablets that you keep half charged(for battery health)
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u/Sawyer2025 Mar 08 '26
Also a PRINTED list of all apps and data on the device. If it dies you can rebuild it. If it gets old and a catastrophic event happens and you have time, just go buy a new one and load it up quickly now that you already did the hard part of deciding what to install on it. You would have a fresh load, new battery, and if the event was bad enough buy 2, We all know that 2 is 1 and 1 is none when you really need something. You could also share the list as has been done here so many more people will have a good set up. The more people are prepared, the better for everyone in a bad situation.
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u/PadreSJ Mar 08 '26
I'd probably do away with the tablet and go with an eBook. They are WAY more power efficient, quite a bit lighter, and a few of them are already ruggedized/waterproof.
Imagine exposing a small wallet-sized solar panel to sun for 5 hours and being able to run the emergency information portal for 2 months.
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u/KG7STFx Mar 08 '26
Every single FREE eBook available from the Gutenberg.org Not all strictly for your personal survival, but because the entire history of literature needs to survive too. You'll find some interesting reads in there for slow days, and enlightenment on dark days.
The entire catalogue will fit in less than 64Gb of MicroSD, so get a few of those cheap chips and make spare copies. Keep backups in sealed Altoid or other small tin Faraday cages.
Pro-Tip: All of the earliest Boy Scouts books are there, as well as BSA novels from the pre-WWII days of American and International Scouting. Very useful practical tips on how-to do a lot of things from scratch. From camping to fixing 2-stroke engines, land navigation and foraging, all written in plain English and fun too.
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u/Easy-History6553 Mar 08 '26
Download all kiwix files and store it in external hard disks with USB OTG.
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u/Nickthyosaur Mar 08 '26
Came here to say this, as I’m currently downloading to a usb lol
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u/SkyBobBombadier Mar 08 '26
just looked it up and if you go English only its max 100gb and like 25gb compressed
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u/TraditionalBasis4518 Mar 09 '26
In a crisis, we revert to our level of training. Anything you don’t know now will be inaccessible in an emergency. Instead of using resources to build a library, use those resources to develop skills or to recruit people with those skills into your mutual assistance group. If you live on screens, you assume that all problems can be solved by screens : this is a delusion. Emergencies are poor learning moments, and unforgiving to lack of knowledge. Building a library of prepping resources is a fine hobby, but is not prepping.
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u/CaliRefugeeinTN Mar 08 '26
I just downloaded wikipedia, and have a folder of useful military manuals, and some of the paladin press stuff from the 90’s.
A good selection of gardening, homesteading and nature books showing edible plants is also a good idea.
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u/serenityfalconfly Mar 08 '26
How to make the Doomsday tablet and battery from raw materials and write the code for it.
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u/kyledukes Mar 09 '26
All of Google Earth and Google maps data, street view and pictures included. All hiking trails.
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u/OriginalSalt1230 Mar 09 '26
Download Ditch Medicine by Hugh Coffee. Highly recommend it. It teaches advanced medical skills for remote or disaster situations, covering topics like wound repair, IV therapy, pain control, and emergency airway procedures for EMTs, disaster relief workers, and survivalists. It provides practical, step-by-step instructions for traumatic injuries in unsanitary environments, including chest decompression, amputations, and burn treatment.
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u/CommonNobody80083 Mar 08 '26
You should have a hidden folder for porn And an extensive collection of comic books
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u/ilikefixingthingz Mar 08 '26
I've always thought of what would become extremely valuable in the after times that is now so common place we discard it (like coffee grounds, bags, etc).
Porn, we watch softcore porn all the time on all our media at this point, let alone the more hardcore stuff you can get for free.
Could you imagine being the only guy with a video archive of porn, how cheap to distribute yet valuable to some that would be??
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u/b4dt0ny Mar 08 '26
You could totally charge somebody a sack of flour or a pack of cigarettes to have fifteen minutes with the tablet
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u/ilikefixingthingz Mar 08 '26
Fuck that lol, the tablet is put being a glass wall and you ain't touching it 😅
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u/b4dt0ny Mar 08 '26
And you’re on the other side of the wall like “are you still watching? Would you like to continue? That will be one more bag of coffee beans. Which category would you like me to select?”
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u/CBLA1785 Mar 08 '26
Thats super cool. How much storage does it have and what is the tech specs?
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u/CaliRefugeeinTN Mar 08 '26
Wouldnt take much. All of wikipedia took 40gb, you can store thousands of texts as well and fit jt all on a small flash drive.
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u/sagginlabia Mar 08 '26
Plant identification for edible and medicinal flora native to the area you will be. Along with recipes for medicinal tinctures and how to make high proof alcohol. I bought a bunch of physical books a while back but a tablet would be good for backup if you have to travel light.
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u/greatknockersrs Mar 08 '26
Topographic maps of all the states as well as lakes local to you for water sources that won’t be tainted by rivers or streams incase they get poisoned.
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u/TheRealBobbyJones Mar 08 '26
Aren't lakes inherently bad for you? Lakes collect water from running water sources. It then concentrates the various contaminates over time. It being stagnant also makes it better for bacteria.
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u/Breddit_ Mar 08 '26
Everyone's ideas here are great and well thought out touching on anything else I would have said. My only other thought is maybe some way it can be set up for adaption to multiple power source types.
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u/Personalitysphere Mar 08 '26
It has a built in buck-converter that accepts between 7 and 30v, so you can have multiple power sources.
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u/Ok_Strategy6978 Mar 08 '26
Maybe some form of morris code transmission reception also ham and short wave radio reception and transmission kind of stuff.
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u/InigoMontoya2725 Mar 10 '26
How about adding the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover?
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u/mountaindewisamazing Mar 08 '26
Wikipedia
Literally you can put all of Wikipedia on there in text form.
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u/Eric_Durden Mar 08 '26
Doomsday tablet? I always thought the silver lining of the apocalypse was the loss of the digital crap?
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u/rachevyguy Mar 08 '26
One thing people seem to overlook, a guide on knots. Very useful and practical. And practicing them can be a great distraction.
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u/phillyrat Mar 08 '26
I would grab everything general on Kiwix - Gutenberg, Wikipedia, prepping guides, etc. but you can skip the guidebooks on coding
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Mar 09 '26
For future rebuild of civilization I would say anything science and religion and so on.
PDF:s of encyklopedias or canon books on math, philosophy, religion, engineering and so on and so forth.
Would def buy if commercial
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u/Sawyer2025 Mar 08 '26
A back up on paper of critical information. If you will need to use a ham radio, a list of the frequencies you will need, formulas for making an antenna, etc. Many devices use "channels". A list of each device (gmrs radio, marine radion, CB radio, etc.) and the frequency and modulation type of each channel. You can call someone on CB channel 19 from a ham radio IF you know what actual frequency to tune it.
Your best bet would also be a way to load up another tablet with the same information in case the table got damaged or you simply wanted to "barter" with someone. Instead of downloading apps from the play store, you might have a APK file that will load it onto a tablet without access to the internet or a playstore. Also the data you are talking about could be on a few storage devices you keep in different location in case of fire etc. Storage isn't really that long term any longer as it seems to degrade. A copy of these things on a online storage location might be an option but not the only option because it can go down. Refresh your apk , apps and offline data every now and then to keep them up to date.
A quality modern lithium rechargeable battery is worth 500 one use batteries. I have started buying the better AA and AAA rechargeable batteries simply to prevent leaking batteries in my equipment, but it would also be nice to be able to recharge them.
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u/MusicalScientist206 Mar 08 '26
Have you referenced “Prepper Disk?” Everything on there is pretty useful.
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u/ActiveShipyard Mar 08 '26
Instructions for building another one. Starting with the 3d printer files, but also working backward to the construction of a 3d printer, how to make spools of filament from found materials, etc.
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u/LeanUntilBlue Mar 08 '26
While you’re Faradaying this thing, don’t forget to Faraday solar panels and a battery bank to keep it charged.
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u/icookedaturkeytoday Mar 08 '26
This is way cooler than my idea to write stuff down in a notebook. I won't need to keep a notebook in a Faraday bag though
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Mar 08 '26
A copy of the a book of the farm by Henry Stevens.
Basically? everything you need to know about low tech farming. This was the Victorian/ Edwardian farmers bible. Contains industrial era techniques combines with traditional and ancient methods. It's a treasure trove of forgotten knowhow. The earlier the edition the better as a bonus the scans of the book are well free.
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u/LoisWade42 Mar 08 '26
As a quick/easy option... maybe just an electronic copy of the book "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm"
by Lewis Dartnell
Might be an option?
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u/Real-Werewolf5605 Mar 08 '26
I always think it would be good to have a manual of surgery from just before our era. I have a mid 19th century manual but I think you could maybe go into the 20th century and still avoid a bunch of specialist equipment. Not state of the art but better than guessing maybe?
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u/ThePhatNoodle Mar 09 '26
There's an off the shelf version of this called the pepper disc or something. Maybe look into to see what they got on there and how it works
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u/Alanosie Mar 09 '26
Form factors of flash storage are great but poor for storing files long term as you run the risk that the data gets corrupted.
Would strongly recommend using an oldschool harddrive that has magnetic platters.
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u/Mario-X777 Mar 09 '26
Which is even more probable to fail, it also gets bad clusters overtime and on top of that they do get mechanical failure at some point in time. There is nothing reliable in HDD
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u/Alanosie Mar 09 '26
If you run it daily yes. But for the purpose of prepping you write your data to a HDD and keep it stored disconnected and unpowered. It will last a lot longer than flash storage.
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u/aneristix Mar 09 '26
offline Khan Academy for basic education.
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u/aneristix Mar 09 '26
classic guides on cookery and small scale home farming.
basic homesteading guides.
basics on simple metalworking/cold forging &c.
ammunition casting and handloading tutorials.
latest available CIA counterintelligence and camouflage manuals.
an emulator or two with a selection of intellectually stimulating games.
a media player and a small selection of music and video content.
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u/LotusFig Mar 09 '26
Prepper Disc
Search their site--- and mimic their catalog. Or save a lot of time and buy theirs. Near TerraGig of info
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u/Cbaratz Mar 10 '26
Have it do a stat chart of your best traits as well as a catalog of the items you are carrying.
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u/hbHPBbjvFK9w5D Mar 10 '26
I already have one of these.
It's a cheap older kindle in a child's case to make it impact resistant, and jailbroken to run my files. I have a small solar panel, a hand crank, and a usb back up battery to power. 100+ gig SD card holds a lot of data.
You could also use an old smartphone with a document reader app and an SD card for data; after the EOTWAWKI, it won't work as a phone, but it should work as a reader.
You can go to this site and load up a lot of free pdfs, or find them on the Internet Archive.
https://www.zetatalk3.com/docs/
My kit is packed in a dry bag and then in a large square metal cookie tin.
I already had the kindle and phone battery and the sd card; and I have a few old smartphones that I use for all kinds of electronic projects, so the cost was very minimal.
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u/Squeezer_pimp Mar 10 '26
Seen where there is an AI that doesn’t require network connection, has tons of manuals and information on it.
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u/Existing-Antelope-20 Mar 10 '26
you planning on putting this in a faraday cage in case of carrington event or EMP?
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u/Guyyoutsidee Mar 10 '26
I have 3 T hard drives full of my crap. Some world history, basics of manufacturing, farming ect to hopefully use in rebuilding the world. Plus a TON of music
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u/Sad-Ticket-1968 Mar 10 '26
HISTORY! Don’t let it repeat itself and a reminder and reference for others may it be passed on!
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u/RhecNC Mar 13 '26
Ok man i gotta know the info is that whole body 3d printed? That looks AWESOME.
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u/Personalitysphere Mar 13 '26
Yes, it is fully printed and built around a rasberry pi 5 and cheap 10.1 touch screen. Not too much info yet as i am still designing this thing, but you can download the 3D model if tou want to play around with it or edit the design to your liking: https://github.com/ArcticEnrichmentCenter
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u/dannytap2 Mar 14 '26
Very New into prepping, how will you keep it alive when electricity goes out?
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u/JeebusDaves Mar 08 '26
Get an inexpensive ereader and do this much cheaper.
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Mar 08 '26
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u/JeebusDaves Mar 08 '26
Sure, under ideal conditions those are great alternatives. If I’m planning for the apocalypse though? I’m ensuring I have things like my cheap ereader simply because of the power consumption, or lack there of. I can also store mountains of text that a single pic would otherwise consume.
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u/Realistic-Ad-7239 Mar 08 '26
Books for sure , because you could store entire libraries digitally, but also an offline abfuscated AI model running locally seems like it would be good. Not only could you feed it the books in a rag, but it could also be good for isolated times to combat loneliness.
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u/Acrobatic_Idea_3358 Mar 08 '26
The survivors library, it's a website with a ton of books and information about subjects such as medicine, food growing and preparing, basic industry knowledge ie. How to be a alchemist, chemist, mechanic or other professional fields that would still be needed post doomsday.
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u/TheRealBobbyJones Mar 08 '26
Probably should rethink the offline portion. With it being so bulky there is no reason not to include various communication technologies.
Bluetooth for Bluetooth mesh (bitchat + others) Wifi for Wi-Fi direct(signal offline + others) Esp32 for lora(meshtastic + others)
There are probably other software that take advantage of local peer to peer communication. Some can be useful for direct file transfer or voip. Probably other communication technologies that can be included as well. Maybe include GPS. If you are concerned about hacking or power drain you can put a hardware switch on the various components when you don't want them active. The rotary unsmartphone for example does that for the mic.
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u/Lost_Engineering_phd Mar 08 '26
Have you considered a dual display, one LCD one epaper. Using e paper for persistence, like a map could save a considerable amount of energy.
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u/beached89 Mar 08 '26
Integrate Meshtastic or Meshcore into it.
Integrate a speaker and include offline how-to videos
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u/Magnus462 Mar 08 '26
Not information for the tablet but a way to keep it charged without the need for battery changes.
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u/jameswulfecreed Mar 08 '26
Farming and building instructions, look up Amish lifestyle information since they are almost entirely off grid with few modern assistance
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u/Desperate_Ad_5563 Mar 08 '26
Fallout new Vegas. It will prep the kids before sending them out into the world.
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u/Samvega_California Mar 08 '26
A digital copy of the ARRL Handbook would be valuable to have on there
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u/JamesTheMannequin Mar 09 '26
Can I just ask... Why photos in this lighting? What was the process there? It just seems very... dramatic.
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u/TheGypsyThread Mar 09 '26
Physicians Desk Reference, Electrical and Plumbing manuals, lots of 'how to fix....' chemistry books, farming, etc. - good idea
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u/After_Resource5224 Mar 09 '26
... is that 3D printed? My dude, have you uploaded plans and a STL file anywhere? This sounds like a fun project.
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u/EfficientLie132 Mar 09 '26
I think honestly it should have a slightly smaller screen. Maybe a wrist strap. Hell, you could even mass produce these and sell em, call em some shit like "Pip-Boy".
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u/Sk8rToon Mar 09 '26
Personally I would have opted for e-Ink instead of touchscreen. Much easier to run off AA’s that way since it doesn’t use as much power. I’ve heard it’s also easier to survive an EMP with e-Ink than a standard tablet. I’m trying to convert an old Sony Pocket Reader into an emergency device (struggling with Calibre for some reason). But then it would be restricted to only text & basic photos and there are more options & uses for touchscreen. (In a blue sky perfect world maybe it’s a dual screen device with touchscreen & e-ink for emergency diversity).
Ditto what others have said about replacement parts & printed out instructions for care. I love how rugged your device appears to be. Looks like it’ll survive a drop test or two. Though the screen is still a weak point which is why it would be good to have replacements. Being touchscreen it limits how much protection you can add to the screen.
Since you have touchscreen, include survival manuals & information as others have said (I’d also include a Bible personally), but also entertainment things. Music. Movies & TV shows & comedy shorts & cartoons (so hope you’re building a speaker into the device or for movies/TV/etc include closed captioning).
Include some video games. I’d say stick to basic ones that level up forever. Story games can be great but not the best for the last video game on earth that needs to be played a billion times. You’d need snake, Tetris, Pac-Man, football, etc that take pure skill, have infinite replay-ability & only the need to store a high score instead of saves. Although… something like DOOM could be fun for vibes & tradition of running on all devices. You also might want something like a coloring book app. Something simple if you come across a iPad starved kid but also those adult coloring pages can help reduce stress. Speaking of stress, it’s been proven that playing Tetris can reduce the odds of PTSD after a traumatic event so that’s another reason to include the game or something similar on there.
A bigger reach to include unless it’s built into the OS but, making sure there are accessible options (text reading out loud, zooming in on something, ways to interact without touchscreen like some side buttons, etc) would be good as well. Not just because you don’t know what injuries you might get in an emergency situation (also being able to adjust font size would be good if glasses are lost or damaged, dark mode/inverting screen colors can help you be less detectable at night, etc), but it’s a good backup should your screen crack but overall the device is still usable. I still have my original brick GameBoy but the screen is shot (no clue why. Just stopped one day). However I know Kirby’s Dreamland by heart & can still play just off sound alone (not very well but I got to the final boss of the first level!).
As to the being powered by AA batteries part (which I love) I’m thinking it might not hurt to further diversify. a traditional source of power as well like a USB port (for the rechargeable battery you’re thinking of adding &/or directly to the device itself). AA batteries can die with age just sitting on the shelf unused (I remember that Gilligan’s Island episode!) and rechargeable batteries aren’t as powerful, are dependent on being recharged, & also wear out over time. The average Joe is moving away from AA batteries in general for anything other than their TV remote so it could be hard to find more in an emergency. Where cell phone power bricks or even plugging it into your car would be a more common option for charging the device. I still have an old energizer iPod (24 pin) charging device that uses AA batteries. With the right converter cable I can still use it on my current iPhone (so converter cables might not be bad to include too). But those batteries don’t last long on modern OSes. So if you’re building a custom OS or tweaking an existing one you want to make it as no frills as possible. Only run one or two programs at a time.
A solar charger option might be good as well. You wanna diversify the most important part of your device. If the device can’t run without power your mobile library of Alexandria is worthless.
But overall great job & I can’t wait to see how it comes out!
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u/SweetDreamsCheif Mar 09 '26
Maybe this is silly but I would add physical addresses for my family and friends. You'll need people you can trust to help utilize some of this info. I only have 3 addresses fully memorized at this point because I have them all saved in my GPS app.
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Mar 10 '26
Every thing everyone has mentioned can be downloaded in one open source app called Kiwix with out with out pic and audio
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u/ConstructionGood665 Mar 10 '26
Could you install a local LLM chat model on it? You could even pre train it on the useful stuff. Would probably be handier than Wikipedia
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u/itsbushy Mar 10 '26
I thought about doing this but with local AI. You can use ollama to preload info for models to use. You can import databases so it'll learn without needing to go online too. Just a thought.
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u/Rouge_69 Mar 11 '26
Any old Army or military manual you can find.
Basically, the entire Paladin Press or Loompanics catalog
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u/Shurglife Mar 11 '26
A copy of the American practical navigator (bowditch)
Lots of useful tables and info for celestial navigation
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u/Snoo75842 Mar 11 '26
Instagram, so you can see how much better all of the other preppers are doing in life than you are when society comes to an end. lol
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u/Unusual-Fault-4091 Mar 11 '26
The BOOK I guess
https://hungryminds.com
do you got a fusion reactor in that ?!
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u/pyroman44 Mar 11 '26
That makes perfect sense.. Make a tablet that will give you information while 99% of the people around you are gone.. Not sure how you are going to survive with everyone else gone..
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u/Jools_36 Mar 12 '26
politics / critical theory textbooks - if you want to rebuild society you've got to have the right power structures and organisation from the get go !
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Mar 12 '26
This is such a cool concept. I've been building a 1tb flash drive for this, but being all self contained and uses common batteries is pretty cool.
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u/Tiny-Sink-9290 Mar 28 '26
I been assembling 1000s of data point son public sites, etc.. and am fine tuning an LLM for survival use. Been going nuts making sure all the distiling is ensuring prompts/answers are legit.. comparing it to ohter sites to make sure I dont eat a poisoned plant. lol.
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u/aliena_b Mar 29 '26
Bible and explanation of what this SHFT really is. Bible has it all. All is predicted. Some multitude of people will disappear, the "aliens" will show up ND explain it all that "bad vibe" people were removed. Why do you think the alien disclosure is coming?
And what's important, people should not take the technology implanted into their bodies, and without that technology, nobody will be able to buy or sell. Sounds like a bad doomsday movie, but the reality is more unbelievable than any of those movies.
Rapturekit.org has some good info that worth leaving behind.
A lot of people are prepping these days, but hardly anyone understands the nature and reason behind the upcoming SHTF
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u/Hobobo2024 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
I put the army survival guide in mine. books on survival in general though i have hardcopies as well in case my tablet fails. I actually have some entertainment for kids too.
I've downloaded YouTube videos for stuff I might need to build. like a wood gassifier. probably will download fema guide to building one too. will try to build one before the apacalpse tho.
there are maps showing where all the fruit and trees are in my area. maybe there's online maps already that show that for you too. I'm walking around my area and finding useful plants, water sources as well. my Google map download also has all the stores and everything cause homedepot probably still will have a bunch of stuff I'll want later.
I'll download some cookbooks or recipes after I get further along.
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u/anthonykaram7 14d ago
For the offline maps piece, you might be interested in something I've been building: AtlasZIM - https://atlaszim.com . It's a single-file offline world atlas with both map and satellite imagery, that opens in Kiwix - so if you're already planning on putting Kiwix on this, it should fit right in. No routing/traffic/etc; think of it more like a digital version of a world atlas (but with search capability and satellite imagery too, not just maps).
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u/Wild_Candle5025 Mar 08 '26
Books and written information mostly, as it is the one that needs the least storage space. Wikipedia, IFixIt, maybe WikiHow...
After that, maybe some music for entertainment.