I have a small problem do you guys remember the ultimate gaming minivan
well ever since MSI repossessed the laptops that we used to build it it's
more of an ultimate minivan I also have
a big problem I promised my kids that over the long weekend they would have a
gaming minivan for our trip to greatwolf Lodge the long weekend's
tomorrow and there's so much more wrong with it than just the missing computers
the screens fell off the cables broke we don't have any way for the middle child
poor middle child to even see the
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thing we would want is a giant monitor mount designed by Alex hey for the kids
to come flying into so we ended up
sourcing this retrofitted incar display that we're
going to put here so that uh that one
doesn't end up with a syndrome wait but Dad will we still be able to play games
together absolutely you'll be able to play games together in fact you will
only be able to play games together instead of having three separate
computers we're going to have one computer and it's all going to be wired
up to this so you guys will pick what game you're going to play together and you will all play but you'll have your
own screens to look at if I want to play by myself if you want to play by
yourself then you have to convince the girls that you're the only one who's
allowed to use it for a bit second computer a twers computer and a
oneperson computer you guys are the choosiest little
Beggars no you get one computer for now second computer Alex you're not
helping this feels like a hostage negotiation anyway this display is from
a company called Extron it's TN but it's one of the better tn's
that I've seen so we're going to say it's good enough as long as we can get
it mounted in kind of a reasonable spot so what's a good kind of location for
you like are you thinking kind of there right there why do I even ask children
things the good location's right here oh
so it's dictated by where the plate to mount it to is under here yeah uh it's
getting attached to the B pillar that goes up and across and stuff got it so
before we do this one thing attaching
this requires cutting a hole in the liner up here what are we waiting for
who wants to do it me please please me oh I think we got a
volunteer unfortunately unlike the DJI units that we put in Emily's camper van
this ecoflow unit uses some proprietary adapter for its AC input so I don't have
it um I guess is there any reason that we couldn't work on this out in the
driveway no that seems fine okay let's get the the solar panels going do you
have sunscreen uh theoretically the
second I pull out into the sun here my
input's going to hey look at that okay
we're charging boys now that we've got power worked out you guys wanted to help
with this today right yeah so we need to get you guys assignments who wants to
help build and install the computer me okay get out of here who wants to help
install the screen me okay see you later
who wants to be my big helper my moral
support animal me
wonderful now for the fun one who wants my daughter's help I'll take it all
right so Justin you're on getting the computer installed in the back and Alex
you get my son and let's get the screen started all right heck yeah as for us
we're going to work on cable management you remember those cables that broke off
on the old screens those were poopy cables they were bad so we're going to
use type- C instead but using type c out
of a desktop is a little bit more challenging than you might think because
while these monitors support DisplayPort over USB type-c they use display
port alt mode which means that if you just output from a regular graphics card
he no working and so that's why we went with a 20 series card because it
supports VR length through this type-c connector here perfect native output
just type-c to type-c Cable of course that only handles one one of our
displays and two of them are still going to use these type-c inputs
so we chose a motherboard with a type-c output cloning the display across your
dedicated GPU and your integrated GPU can have a slight performance penalty
but realistically they're going to be playing what like Castle Crashers yeah
Ultimate Chicken horse it should be okay as for the final display it does have
fulls sizee HDMI which is fantastic not so fantastic it also has power because
no USB type-c so we have to figure out how to run that through here somehow I
guess these come off I don't know it's sorry what those come off yeah oh to to
put power through it yeah um okay and are they going to go
back on these will go back on great what
happens up here we will see
no okay darling so you see where we've got these cables from last time yeah
these are all poo poo so what we're going to do instead is we're going to
run these cables down the same spots okay okay can you handle that yeah so we
got to take all of this off and then so you got to find those down there and
pull them out oh you know what it be really smart though hold on hold
on if we were really smart you know what we would do is we would tape the new
cable to the old cable and then when we pull it out we're going to feed our new
cable right in think you can do that are you that smart yeah okay let's get you
some tape and D doop good enough ah okay
now go find the bottom of this one and start yanking on
it nice perfect now you just got to take
that tape off good job or wait you know
what no we can use it to keep pulling let's go all the way to the back and see if we can find it here this is the one
we want so you got to pull this here and
I'm going to help feed it through okay oh wo hold on wait did we get it the end
yet oh that is not quite long enough hey
Alex yeah are these cables intended to be long enough to reach up to the
headrests uh which ones uh the type C's
I think so Justin says he doesn't have longer type c's for the front seats my
solution to that oh no was to have this just kind of exist somewhere in the
middle oh oh so you can go from traditional
DisplayPort to DisplayPort alt mode but what you need is an active adapter
and this is one of the little VR Port boxes that comes with vario varo highend
really nice professional VR headsets it's a little less clean than the direct
USBC run that we had intended and it means there was no reason to use a 20
series NVIDIA card anymore but hey at least it means we're not up the creek
without a paddle right kids what since we're going to be
playing around where some side curtain airbags are we're just not going to take
any risks so battery is getting disconnected right here and then we
don't have to worry about uh those airbags exploding in our faces you're
welcome fortunately the built-in cables
just barely reach where our front cable gets to and just barely reach the back
of the computer so what we need to do now is get this cable managed so that it
doesn't move all right do you want to break your parents van yeah most of car
interior work is just pulling on things and hoping that the little plastic Clips
on the inside don't break so uh do you want to just pull on this as hard as you
can and it'll probably come off yeah there we go come there we
go oh that escalated quickly yeah he
pulled it off oh okay all right we've
got our two boxes now we just need to decide where the optimal place is to
mount them so that we can reach them with our cables from the front let's go
figure out where those cables are going to land why can't we just drill a big
Square over here oh we will but we need to get the water
up and in so it's nice and tidy are you guys thinking like we can just fish it
through yeah oh well that'll be fine then right yeah oh well why were you
freaking me out about the fabric at the top because we just need to take it out
a little bit here and it's Headliners just never go back in the same oh I see
yeah okay why don't we run another one of these cables okay okay you got it
yeah keep going keep going okay that's
good okay let's see how much slack we've got got once again we have just barely
enough room we're going to mount this I don't know here or something and then
these are just going to make their way around to the back of the PC perfect
just like we planned what are those these are the
brackets that hold it down so that way when you guys are driving and hitting
bumps and stuff like that the computer doesn't go flying around so these here
are 3D printed brackets they are printed at 100% fill in ptg so it should be nice
and strong shouldn't go anywhere while she's installing the computer sort of uh
let's talk about the specs we went with something pretty mid-range it's a ryzen
5 5600 so this is last gen ryzen 16 gigs
of T Force memory a P5 SSD and okay the
motherboard's a little high-end it's an x570 board from ASUS but that's just cuz
we had that kicking around the reality of it is we don't want anything that's
going to draw a ton of power or kick out a ton of heat because once we have the
top cover on here it's a pretty confined
space that was one of the justifications for laptops last time this is a cool
addition though this was actually created by a viewer it's from markz from
cosmic goo.com and it's a little IR
receiver that can be used with pretty much any programmable IR remote to turn
a PC on and off so we're going to be giving it a try wait IR how's that going
to be that useful inside the trunk of a car well we're going to have to have it running outside the car um it does come
with some pretty long wires as it is but we might have to go a little bit longer
and maybe stick it to the roof or something on the inside of the car not the outside I see
okay I do wonder if at that point it might have been easier for us to just
press the button but okay sure you know what we're shouting out Mark Z and if
the solution is a little weird then blame Mark Z this is the mounting plate
for the middle Monitor and it is sharp as heck you will actually cut yourself
if you touch it the wrong way so uh deburing tool Linus's kid gets to learn
how to use one he he didn't give
consent one thing you might think would be smart would be wearing gloves while
doing this that's a really bad idea if you touch your hand against it maybe you
have a bit of a bad hour you have to put on a Band-Aid if a glove gets caught in
it and gets pulled off you're you're having a bad month or
so why is that there that is there so
that we can take this little adapter box and stick it there so it won't go
anywhere what's this this is a wireless
router what does it do well it does a couple of things in our application it's
going to take the 4G Puck that we have and it's going to distribute networking
to everything what's the 4G Puck that's going to give us internet when we're in
the car we had wanted to put starlink on the roof of the car what starlink it's
um like satellite internet that you can have anywhere but they didn't have the
new like really small one that they have now back when we built this so we didn't
get starlink oh so we're just going to use a 4G Pock what does that do that
does oh it apparently is a button I have I have no idea maybe we're breaking it
good gravy this is the chunkiest puck I think I've ever seen we're not going to
need that MSI thing in there anymore we could just run a little switch off of
this thing okay perfect never mind uh that's going to go so we can take that
out if I'm honest I don't know how I feel about having a kid just put an Ula
knife through the roof of a car um that's okay but that's what line is said
to do so how you feel yeah I just like
poke it yeah there we go
nice oh there we go heck yeah I did it
we can see the B pillar right there we are golden I scratched this part that's
fine no one's going to see it oh wow what a mostly even hole you've cut it's
okay it's going to get much bigger that was just to see what's on the go Mr
Justin I may have a task that you're uniquely qualified for this doesn't use
Keyhole mounts like our magnetic Cable Management would like for it to use but
it does have these little slide in feet things I see how hard would it
be to make them out for that it's not okay I'll get on her may I has mhm let's
do it okay okay I'll just hold on to this
104 perfect this looks great but is
there a reason we used double-sided tape rather than the slides uh yes because if
I went with the right thickness of material that would allow it to slide
the little feet stick out and then you got a big bump and right AC it would be
so flimsy anyway all right let's screw
it in I'm going to put this kind
up right here cuz I'm thinking the closer I can get these antennas to at
least a window rather than the metal chassis of the vehicle the better so I'm
kind of I'm kind of feeling this Vibe they are antennas okay keep going a
little more little more okay yeah that's good good job all
right awesome this is my favorite technique for getting stuff through
confined little areas you just zip tie a zip tie to the end of it and then add
some Tesa tape so it gets through kind of easily it'll probably work just fine
all right I'm going to try and fish this through can you try and grab it in there
when it starts showing up assuming it does heck yeah there we go pretty big
moment now I've got the power adapter for our second VR box so I'm just going
to go ahead and get this Plugged In which means all we've got to do is flip
the switch on our computer oh sure you
have an IR emitter on your phone red magic 9 has one brand new phone still
has it wow okay and what I just press the power button yep T that is awesome
computer's powered up which means you two girls can go plug those monitors
into the front and let's see if we get a signal to them go for it as cool as our
programmable IR button is though I think that what I'm leaning toward is just
extending these two wires that are coming off of the power button on the computer and just putting it power
button in the front I uh I don't have a blaster on my phone and I don't have any
obvious way to hit this unless we like install an array of mirrors to yeah
Zelda Zelda dungeon it um Okay cool so
can we do that yeah yeah quick and easy problem okay perfect it turned on yay
wait do you guys see an out from the computer it said it says 12% 12% oh no
yeah yeah yeah but there's a Windows background that's all we care about it just turned off yeah it's at
0% oh okay's power this
on okay it's powered on Republic of
Gamers yeah I know it's hey look at that
we've got both of them now excellent we definitely should have done
all of the cutting before throwing the cables through that was an
oversight look how bad of a job you did last time perfect than his writing it's
going to look so good it's Perfecter than his drawing he sticking out we just
rip it there we go yay hey all right put
the blade away there's holes in the slots that I wanted for
there to be not holes so we can observation getting griefed by
children how are we feeling about right there do we have any way of telling if
it wait Alex that's not centered you know that right Alex we can move it over
a bit okay right there okay you want to
hold it I'm going to try okay going to do one R oh this is going to be so tough
Oh I thought you said it was great and super fantastic Alex Alex you're saying
that it's not right now I mean I'm not saying anything do you want to do the
honors Len oh yeah perfect where do I drill it you are determining right now
whether this will be centered or not and you can't even put your glasses on
upside right this is the right way
little bit more
all right we didn't go through roof that's
great time to pick where you want it oh okay well let's go find a spot I'm going
to regret it if it isn't somewhere where the kids can reach it yep okay let's
just put it up here on the floor okay fil so whatever you do don't fart
Alex Oh I really wish I had
one so it's very important that this goes in straight here I'll do the one
that's I'll do this one so that if we still have this one it's finer yeah uh
three was already kind of the minimum my son what could go wrong we've got a
12-year-old tapping uh the tap could
break why is it called he could strip it rhetorical question he could go in
sideways rhetorical question I think he might have done it he didn't do it he
did do it oh okay
sure great he did it of course something went wrong power button test
is it off Justin it is off okay then it works all right it's just going to hang
here shouldn't we use a screwdriver for that uh yes oh what did Alex oh it's
both of you now the safety glasses on
wrong unbelievable okay here we go so the HDMI
input is just on the side yeah why so if
I don't misunderstand this then all this crap just sits up there
yep okay no one's going to see it yeah we'll just kind of stuff it in here I
feel like that's the gold ones this is going to be really hard to line up gold
ones I believe in you Alex is it long
enough I think it's long enough it's just going to be hard to hit wait did we
nail it say let
go no no not even oh wow know we were
super close might be right there oh that's under
promising yeah I'm I'm Letting Go it's not coming down I think we got it I
think we got it how's that looking I mean good enough it's as good as it's
going to be because it's into a plate that's in a fixed position well but we
can like lightly move the plate oh I see
check this out big moment guys peels coming off who pro professional
buddy only took two tries
all right not bad not bad that looks
sick you can't even tell there's a big ugly HDMI cable sticking out of the side
that is legitimately kind of cool though because it means that at a moment's
notice you could just plug anything you want into it yeah kind of Handy kind of
cool like if someone's sitting there with a a switch OLED or something and
they want to just share their screen connect another controller for a second player boom you just keep playing on
your handheld and there you go
get the whole van playing like six kids all playing smash BRS you totally could
all right let's put the car back together yeah I should test if that
internet Puck works I'm going to do that
okay we got internet let's check googly Chrome uh sure Web Store
hey nice okay we've got internet and one
display progress yay Andrew what do you
think are the odds this just works uh 80
80 oh come on man doing a quick test run
with them just Twisted together here we go is that screen going to turn on let's
find out and ah uh-oh that is not powered oh
there's a remote I mean the light's not on though oh the light's not on uh-huh
uh hold on maybe I did it wrong no you
did that right uh-oh Alex did you tie the accessory in to the voltage okay
time for some probation volts that's bad that is really bad okay
if I support this yeah I got it do you
want to have see if you can grab the cable harness stuff yeah do you think we
just didn't get the wios on properly
that's my vote I'm voting for that Justin says power supply I say wos you
got any guesses I can see the problem already
what accessory wire isn't wired into the positive there's no wi going to the
positive oh what's this
ACC yeah so you need both uh yeah BCC
and accessory H oh
okay well that's good yeah that was a relatively Quick Fix oh
Von come around the other side what do you think of the center monitor yeah she
just told me what what do you mean she just told you look at her drawing her
puzzle drawing yeah I didn't know that you guys were
putting one in but well we are yeah oh wait you're upset about the hole in the
roof oh well you'll never see it cuz this will be there last time when you
guys worked on the car I was driving and
the car just stopped working there was no more power yeah very dangerous yes
are we going to have the same issue no oh no are you sure oh yeah okay that
wasn't me also that was
someone a BMW Enthusiast in all honesty
if you weren't trying to make a video and have your three kids help you you
could probably do an install of one of these in couple hours I'd say maybe an
hour really okay but I'm I'm buffering Alex yeah I came up with how long I
thought thought it would take and then I doubled it yeah two hours I mean you've
read the YouTube comments I no offense some of you are could probably do it in
an hour just fine but a lot more probably think they could do it in an
hour yeah oh yeah hey y look at that it
has no apps uh that's okay we can fix that wow that image quality is not great
sorry middle child she has the bigger screen though
that's what you get for being the middle but it's farther away also I don't think it's bigger it's
smaller if anything okay let's put the third screen on shall we yeah all right
oh here's the remains of that micro HDMI
cable there it goes like everything else
in this car hey hey hey come on we're doing great here can you not triplicate
a display is that not a thing okay so uh
how are you supposed to do this again uh you click set up multiple displays yeah
and then you right click on the display you want to duplicate and then select
clone with and then choose the displays you want to duplicate uh-huh that was UN necessarily
complicated agreed but yes we got it
heck yeah all right you guys want to try a game yeah yeah all right let's do it
Alex do you want to help me guide this bad boy in for the last dish time for a
wildish look at that it looks all proper
professional sort of yeah wow this whole setup is actually drawing less power
than this late afternoon sun is inputting we're around 170 watts output
and we're at around 200 Watts input for all the trials and tribulations the end
result is actually oh yeah really good I
mean it looks sick it legitimately does
and it has way more flexibility than we're even taking advantage of now
second computer okay we do have the ability now that we have those little
adapter boxes to DisplayPort alt mode in the back to put up to three computers
in without any difficulties but hey they can play games
together it wouldn't kill them they're siblings right you guys love each other right I
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