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we've identified a problem with pretty much every desk on the market the

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traditional sitting desk has all kinds of ergonomic and posture challenges and

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of course encourages a more uh sedentary lifestyle and then there's the

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new age standing desk well with the

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standing desk you know you stand and there are a lot of claims being made

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about how these might help offset the uh

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gigantic cake that you're apparently eating for lunch and making matters

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worse these standing desks are inordinately expensive in many cases

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so we thought leave it to us we've got the solution

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for less than a couple hundred bucks we're gonna build the desk that forces

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you to stay in shape

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more so you want a desk that keeps you fit

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where do you start well there are actually commercially available

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treadmill desks but they are freaking expensive so we set out to make

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something a bit more economical now given that many maybe even most

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people should probably have a bike lying around and if they don't you can get one

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for pretty cheap on craigslist we figured that seemed like a good place to

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start but how could we make sure that the user

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actually pedaled on it and didn't just sit on the bike seat feeling like they

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were exercising could we maybe generate the power for

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the computer using the bike well that seemed a bit harsh but what if

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we took away their internet whenever they stopped pedaling

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now we're getting somewhere so we set about creating a small

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generator from a bike that could be used to power the user's internet switch

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after ordering a bike fitness trainer an electric motor and a charge controller

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from amazon we were ready to get started now you might think that we should put

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the electric motor directly onto the flywheel of the fitness trainer but we

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need the motor to be spinning at around 3000 RPM and we're not going to be

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hitting anywhere near that on the bike so we need to create a gear reduction

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from the bike to about two and a half

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two inches something like that so the plan was to use a v-belt attached

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to the tire and then onto one of these pulleys which came in from amazon and

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the bore diameter is just totally wrong and will not fit onto here so now we're

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just going to kind of raw dog it and see what happens

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the flywheel was removed from the fitness trainer and the tire was removed

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from the rim allowing the belt to sit directly on the rim

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the tires needed to come off alex's bike anyway after he ran over some beer

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bottles that someone kindly smashed on the road so that worked out great for

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everyone so the plan since

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our die cast pulleys aren't going to work

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or to laser cut out pieces of wood

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have one that fits over this sprocket and have a couple

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that go along the shaft here and sort of

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screw them all together and hopefully can transmit the torque after a little

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bit of cad we were ready to fire the laser

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fire the laser

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look if we can just transmit the torque with this it's going to be like done

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tomorrow like on a scale of one two absolutely

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horrendous where would you rate this idea

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somewhere

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okay i'll take that

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do you think that we just got someone to sort of hold this and then we pedaled we

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could just see if it's going to work

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with the wooden pulley attached and screwed together

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we were actually we weren't that hopeful at this point

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so that's got a bit of stickiness

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i don't even think this is going to work with wood all right fits in the groove pretty well

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yeah we'll just call friction part of the exercise experience with very little

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to lose we geared up to see if this plan could work at all

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we would need to make sure that we could have the motor spinning at over 3000 RPM

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without the poor wooden pulley blowing to pieces

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looking go so we're getting like 27 volts something like that

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so clearly we need this to be mounted better than just me holding it but

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after proving that at least in theory this should work we needed to make a

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more permanent mount for the motor so we need to lift the motor up about this

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high so that the belt doesn't hit on the frame here

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i'm kind of thinking that we might be best off making a frame so we sort of

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put two here and then

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one across and that's where the motor actually mounts it would be nice to if there's

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some way for us to tighten it do you have any ideas

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this is not how you're supposed to use these tools

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oh that's kind of sketchy no that just

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came right out editors note that one didn't happen

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you know i just realized this is a dirty prototype why did i even bother drilling

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four holes

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so that's a problem

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yeah we need to sandbag that for sure the electric motor will be connected to

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this solar charge controller which will take the constantly changing voltage out

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of the motor and output a nice clean 12

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volts from here it will go to this 12

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volt inverter which will turn the 12 volts into 120 volt ac so that you could

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plug any device into it like a normal outlet

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we weren't entirely sure if this would work since

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you might need a battery between the controller and inverter

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i wonder if this will work

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actually it kind of looks like that i just forgot to put the nut on

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oh so if i start pedaling

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can you press the button that's on that nothing

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yeah we must need a battery in there darn fitness pc

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we grab dead because he's over here taking candy

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the candy that's upstairs

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for it to actually work we need this battery here between the solar charger

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and the inverter and that basically just allows the solar

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charger to actually turn on and then it does its thing so add start pedaling

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so when this light's blinking slowly that means that we're actually getting

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charged into the battery and that means that it's around 24 ish

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volts or so now what we need to do is have it so that if ed

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stops pedaling this light turns off because right now

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it's just staying on until the battery drains which is way too long and it's

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not nearly as would you call it draconian as we want

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because the idea is to punish the user whenever they stop exercising we needed

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to add a relay where the did i put that relay that closes a switch when the user

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starts pedaling completing a circuit and sending power from the battery to the

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inverter then immediately opens it disconnecting the circuit once the user

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stops pedaling with the relay added into the circuit well was time to see if it

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works yes

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haha and then if i stop

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yes i don't want to call it a success but it

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is definitely a prototype that works i learned so much about electronics

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today with v1 working all that was left was to clean things up a bit so i kind

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of want to just laser cut a piece of wood

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that'll go sort of around here out for some

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sandbags and have perfect mounts for the motor and then on

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monday we'll have the thrust bearing arrive for this and we're basically done

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just clean up the electronics a bit put it in like a nice box or something just

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do we have to make a nice box oh it better be the best the best box i can't

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make good boxes though we could laser cut a box and you

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basically know how this works now cad

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laser and boom we're good to go

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except wood is a pain i think it's fine

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and different pieces can have slightly different properties so a bit of tlc was

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needed here and there it's still looking pretty good it's a four foot job you can

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get pretty close

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like that works

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not bad with the top piece cut we attached some two by fours on the bottom

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for support and ed filled in the letters using

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permanent marker since we couldn't just leave the electronics lying on the floor we

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decided to stash them in a Dan case using double-sided tape and after a

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little bit of love everything actually fit in surprisingly

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well any holes were closed using acrylic

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dammit

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wow that actually cut me now are you bleeding like slightly yeah all right

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time for first aid and in the end it's not looking half bad if we do say

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so ourselves so now that the fitness pc2000 is ready to be set up at an

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actual desk well maybe it's time for us to show it

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to me so this is

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the fitness pc 2000 is that just sharpie marker wow that

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actually looks surprisingly good like good for what we would normally do yeah

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okay sandbag goes here so basically what we've just got a motor

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here with did you make the set of wood why

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well we ordered the ones but they came in the wrong size so they didn't fit on

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the shaft you give a man a laser laser cutter and

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no laser cut anything this outputs like 24 volts 200 watts you

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mean yeah 200 watts of basin ac power okay so

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200 watts is our maximum output here you

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guys probably realize then that if you have a powerful rig that's not enough

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for you to actually power up your gaming machine while you game

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but any more than that would be quite difficult for most people to

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to do just by pedaling anyway so should we evaluate now just how usable this is

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i guess yeah so uh you know here what what should i what should i try to do

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just you know browse the forum watch some youtube videos

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i gotta say it is a little bit harder to type while i'm

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you know going ham on the on the exercise bicycle but it's not as bad as

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you might think oh look at this a mouth-operated mouse

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it's like all these crit what are these tech chips guys doing one thing that is

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a little bit tough is you can actually feel the resistance changing sometimes

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like it'll it'll almost like it'll let you know

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when you need to give her a little bit more

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do we know why exactly that is that has to have to do with the battery charging

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so what could i do that would make it draw more power should we try to power

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the whole the whole thing with it as well yeah let's do it let's do it

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okay so here we go powering up the computer

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wow so you get like a real physical

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feedback for the amount of power that your components are drawing like during boot

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up oh like it initialized something there i

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felt it oh that is some good resistance we got going here i'm gonna work up a sweat

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pretty quick here let's get this demo going you know that's actually not

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that bad and it's a constant load now whereas

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like the spikes in CPU activity before i could really feel them

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you would get absolutely no i fell behind oh

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crap okay that relay is really unforgiving

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the second generation of this product definitely needs like a phillips hue

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that gives you like a reading on your battery or like a capacitor right so if you had

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a big fat capacitor and then it was like green when it's full and then would

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slowly go to yellow and red that would be cool

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you'd probably want to get one of those stupid mice from thermaltake that has

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the fan in it they have a keyboard with one too

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keep your uh keep your palms from getting too sweaty

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and your arms from getting too heavy this might be a little extreme i think

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having it plugged into the network switch is good enough

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okay should we try and play a

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game come on

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okay play cs go ah

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no no no oh no

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just load the map come on just

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i just want to play one round okay ct here we go

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so CPU is at like 25 and GPU is going up as high as like 80

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100. oh almost fall behind for a second there

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no i give up

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page at the link in the video description oh

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oh my legs so

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if the goal was an exercise bike

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that makes you literally get ass wet the

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mission [ __ ] accomplished

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the fitness pc is a huge success

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