i need to oh now this project has been a long
journey oh hold on i think that's in the way it actually started that sounds
awful back in february
2017 which come to think of it like why
did it take so long for us to get a laptop charging cart so that we can keep
our laptop batteries from getting damaged well you can't just send me
emails in the middle of the night and expect me to conjure a laptop card out
of midair oh
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so in all seriousness though what did take so long
well we had this vision of what we wanted but
every commercial laptop cart that we could find either held too few laptops
or it was limited to 17-inch devices
which clearly wasn't going to cut it for some of the laptops that we need to
store so i'm sure by now you guys have figured out where i'm going with this
maybe thanks to the huge proto case shipment that we're uh
we just well actually we're getting ready to drag it outside for an outdoor
unboxing but for the kings of overkill
there was just no reasonable choice other than going with a fully custom
solution from our bffs over at protocase
but Linus just build one out of wood Linus come on
Linus no that's stupid if the note 7 taught us anything it's that batteries
sometimes not very often but sometimes blow up so uh covering the kindling in a
gigantic flammable box isn't really the best idea we want to stick with metal so
after some brainstorming with Jake we refined our original concept and sent a
package over to the design team at protocase apparently you can literally
send them cell phone photos of napkin scribbles and they'll turn it into
something coherent so that makes me feel a little better about the combination of
technical cad drawings and i show you not
ms paint concept drawings that we put together
huge shout out especially to daryl over there for all of his help turning our
designs into something actually usable
especially since our original concept would have weighed over
700 pounds he made tons of great suggestions and dealt with the countless
revisions and changes that Jake and i made without any complaining at least
not to us now i'm not gonna lie this project didn't get done in the
guaranteed two to three day production time of a typical proto case order but
the design work alone took up 42 man
hours almost five and a half working days and the fabrication of something
this complex took a pretty significant chunk of time as well
46 individual pieces had to be cut with
an industrial laser say for the right side panel which actually needed the cnc
router treatment thanks to its 1223
cutouts the laser is actually so powerful it would just warp the crap out
of something with that many intricate cuts then the cutters tend to leave some
sharp edges and little shavings known as burrs so each part got a quick run
through the deburring machines with large stiff whistles that polish the
edges down a bit bringing us then to the glue of this build fasteners
we did end up with a few welded joints but we tried to keep everything as
deconstructable as possible so in total almost
260 individual fasteners were manually
pressed into the sheets of metal these little guys are essentially threaded
metal that screws can be well screwed into before moving into cosmetics like
powder coat the pieces were individually cleaned in gigantic bats of degreaser
then dried in an oven because ain't nobody got time to wait for air drying
then the real magic happens in the paint station where the powder coating gun is
charged to 100 000 volts making the
powder coat nice and electrically sticky
for the metal pieces well let's uh why don't we you ready huh
you ready oh i'm ready let's do this thing there we go
oh my god we gotta coordinate the efforts here
all right let's do this thing what is that thing you think we're gonna
take this whole thing apart with that little knife yeah okay i'm gonna get a bigger you know what i'm gonna have it
done by the time you get back there's no knives so i have scissors
scissors really these are titanium coated okay man this thing weighs what
400 pounds yeah 400 and some change 400 change but that's down from 700. see
it's not about the actual weight it's about the improvement right
this is incredible here we can see the custom
full frontal silk screen job designed by ed yago himself this was no easy feat 20
separate screens were used for the design each requiring a tedious prep
process involving burning the layouts into the screen and
cleaning the portions with a pressure washer and then that's all before you
even think about applying the ink so
this 400 pound beast got assembled and skid shipped across the continent to our
office in vancouver and it's time
for us to charge some freaking laptops
yeah okay yeah over on this side you can see there's six fans over here giving us
airflow across the ac to dc uh chargers
as well as like you know if you have a razor blade for example and it just
decides to like cook randomly wake up when it's supposed to be sleeping then
this will keep it from boiling itself so should we grab
everything out uh yeah we should take this stuff out first okay there's a lip
on that one man this thing is solid yeah the doors are steel so they're like is
this fan controller yeah
yes he was like how do we power it and i was
like uh nzxt
oh you're just gonna make me okay well it's not that heavy anymore without
all the drawers inside oh hold on i'm slipping i'm slipping bubbles kind of a
big deal oh god did you lock this wheel
dang it Jake why would you lock the wheel i was happy
about how it locks okay okay slow down okay there's another cart
there how's my parking job here
how are we supposed to actually plug things into this top pdu oh god
that's a little tricky that's a minor design oversight Jake here just so you
guys can see what i'm talking about so these are intended to hold the ac
adapters captive thumbscrews check this out see
they don't come out and do they have padding on all of them
yeah that was the idea and they're vented and they're aluminum
and light we can customize it how we want so let's see if you can do this
okay that's not very fun but yes it it
can technically be done
just a power adapter it's fine
oh wait well here do you want to pop the top and then oh
raindrop drop top i got this it'll be fine okay maybe i don't
custom brandon god so i mean i realize this is a supremely
first world problem but like we have a lot of laptops
and right now they're all just sitting on
the shelf essentially rotting because i
don't know if you know this but it discharges over time and then it can
actually go bad if it sits there discharged for too long remember kids if
you got too much discharge it's always a bad thing that would have been not that
bad until you practiced it with remember kids ouch oh what the hell is this thing
oh my god don't ask questions does this have like an express card
why are we even bothering to keep this thing alive i hate
these stock cable ties they're trash
they're just garbage uh so
this is the water cooled laptop the laptop can go in the cart and then
we'll just put the water cooler like next to it okay no
okay yeah okay just just give it to me
devices like this we should really charge and stuff what is that
they're cool yeah when are you ever gonna use this well never which is
exactly why we need to be charging it so it doesn't die
it's basically just a smartphone with a fat keyboard yeah yeah
wow that is something
honestly like half of the laptops on the bottom i've only got what is this five
six seven eight laptops down here i've got like
12 power bricks i can barely even put
like so it takes up like this much space up
here proto case we're gonna need a rev too
rev2 i actually don't know how many laptops
we have so i'm about to find out one two
flirty laptops plus blancho laptops plus people who have laptops deployed to them
i have two all the writers have one each
we probably have like 40 to 50 laptops why
well whatever the reason for it is we
finally have a safe place to store them um everything from the thinning lights
on the top to the sort of like gaming models in the middle um slash you know
powerful models like the mac pros here macbook pro rather to the completely
over the top ridiculous ones huge shout out to protocase
for sending this over to us if you can imagine it protocase can
pretty much build it how heavy is this thing now
like this is a this is a hard rubber tire
we flattened it um
well ting is the mobile carrier that's focused on customer satisfaction when
you call them you speak to a real person not an automated phone tree and you only
pay for what you use with the average ting bill under 25 dollars per month per
device you don't have to kind of guess if it'll work for you though you can go
over to Linus.ting.com we'll have that linked below and use their savings
calculator enter your last few bills and how much you paid for them and it'll
spit out whether you'd save money on ting then when you decide to switch to
ting all you gotta do is go to that link and you can get 25 bucks towards a
service credit what's cool is that on top of that if you need to get out of
your contract to switch to ting ting will cover 25 of your cancellation fee
up to 75 dollars so again head over to
Linus.ting.com and check them out so thanks for watching guys if you like
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now it's locked now people cannot get any laptops ever
again if we lose this key so let's try not to do that