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after seeing us build one of the internet's most epic battle stations

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Intel reached out with a sponsorship and a challenge

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build a new diy desk project even better

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than before highlighting the 8th generation core i7 8700k

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in a ba gaming rig so we set out this

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time with a small form factor origin chronos

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the plan a gaming setup that lets you have it any

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way you like switching between pc gaming

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and console gaming with ease and with a throwback to that analog feel

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with physical buttons oh and RGB naturally

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thinking it would be easier to augment an existing desk rather than build one

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from scratch we used ikea's build your own desk tool as a starting point and

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chose a mixture of wood finish and pure white for a modern look that would also

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effectively bounce our RGB lighting around before we dive into the diy

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action let's meet the gaming pc that Intel provided for this project origin

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pc's chronos complete with custom paint job it rocks the up to 4.7 gigahertz

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Intel core i7 8700k and all six cores of

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it are tamed by origin's own frostbite 120 liquid cooler which allows it to

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really stretch its legs despite the system's small size

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so we modified the cabinet portion of the desk so that it could hold not only

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our kronos but also an xbox one x and a

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ps4 pro oh yeah and all of the circuitry needed

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to switch between them so we picked up these led toggle buttons on amazon

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this HDMI switch for changing our inputs and an arduino uno to act as the brain

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for the whole thing to make room for all these goodies we decided to remove the

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cabinet's top three drawers and then to shift the rails down on one of the two

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large bottom drawers so we could swap it out for a small one

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then using some white wood paneling that we got from home depot we made three

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custom shelves that we fastened to the cabinet walls by simply drilling new

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holes and inserting those small wooden dowels that are often included with ikea

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furniture pro tip by the way you can take as many of those as you need from

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the bins at ikea customer service ultimately we didn't end up with a ton

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of extra space around each system which isn't great for thermals so if you're

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following along at home then you might choose to keep just one drawer at the

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bottom instead of two or you can do what we did and integrate some cooling fans

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at the back this allowed us to keep the storage space at the bottom and the more

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finished look of the tight compartments

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but hold on a second if there's so little space above the

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chronos where are all the switches and wiring going to go huh oh ye of little faith

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there's a spare three and a half centimeters up there now this is not

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quite enough for a fourth shelf given that the shelves themselves are almost

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two centimeters thick but what if we salvaged some of our

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discarded cabinet pieces to make a custom super low profile drawer

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we remounted our spare rails and gorilla glue on a new facade that would hold our

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switches et voila all the desks hardware in a compartment

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no taller than the trim piece that we were going to use anyway

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so it's going great so far but let's be honest this wouldn't be an LTT project

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without at least a dash of jury rigged jankery

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so let me assure you this is an LTT project

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to seamlessly switch from pc to xbox to playstation we needed each of our

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physical buttons to correspond to an input on our HDMI switch one each for

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HDMI 1 HDMI 2 and HDMI 3. problem is we could not find an HDMI

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switch that hit individual physical buttons for each input instead they all

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have one button that cycles through the inputs

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however they do come with remotes and the

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remotes have individual buttons so our plan then was to connect our arduino to

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the remote and then just point the remote point blank in our HDMI switch

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inside the cabinet problem solved or at least it would have

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been if we hadn't accidentally connected a 5 volt power supply to a 3 volt remote

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and completely destroyed it in the end we soldered the

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HDMI switch directly to the arduino and relied on software to send the

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appropriate number of button presses depending on which input you're starting

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on anyway after all that it was just a matter of using a hole saw to bore cable

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management holes so we could you know plug stuff in because that's important

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and so we could wire up our RGB strips

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which we opted to stick to the top side of each compartment way at the back for

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a sexy gentle glow then we added wood trim with a bit of

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overhang to hide the RGB strips wrote this arduino script to control the

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switches and the lights and put the whole thing including an ultra wide

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monitor together ending the console wars and ushering in a new era of gaming a

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peaceful era of gaming once and for all

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not bad for a total of 420

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so thanks santel for sponsoring this build and thanks to you guys for

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