A TVA TemPad prop build – The MagPi Issue 147 @TheMagPi
The MagPi Magazine (+ HackSpace) Issue 147 features a TVA TemPad prop build.
Protecting the timelines of reality, the Time Variance Authority (TVA) is an
anachronistic organisation in the Marvel universe that resembles a drab 1970s office full of retro-futuristic technology that allows its agents to travel to any time. This includes the TemPad, a tablet that shows information about timelines and allows you to travel via temporal doors – it’s a neat little prop, and it caught maker and YouTuber Matt Gray’s attention.
Matt spent about a month making the TemPad – iterating on each part until he was happy with it. “I used parts from Pimoroni and Adafruit because they both make really straightforward and welldocumented things that take so much of the friction away from prototyping something,”
“Unlike some [other microcontrollers], I’ve never had an issue with the capability of the RP2040,” Matt tells us. “And the Pico Lipo’s USB-C connector and battery management means I don’t need a separate board or cables, it’s got 16MB of storage to fit my images on, and supports CircuitPython which I prefer to program in.”
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