a month ago we were requested nay challenged to build a PC for the
incredible Martin Mullen of Winter Garden and marble machine Fame and I say
challenged because Martin's Marvel machine Adventures are not only creative
but incredibly well executed so we
couldn't build just any PC and we're not we are building him a
wooden PC and for once we have a plan
not a very good plan but it's a plan nonetheless and thanks
to SolidWorks we are going to turn our plan into a reality you can now get 3D
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it's currently Tuesday and by Friday this nice stack of birch plywood needs
to become a PC so how exactly we plan on doing that let's come on over here so
we've been working on this model for the past like month on and off and here's
our PC it looks a lot like the marble machine the plan overall is pretty
decent I think we've got these gears here that should be operational these
ones will kind of go the wrong way compared to each other but whatever that's fine and you might be thinking
how the heck are you going to repair
this well watch bam go Wing doors look at that all of
our components are in here it's actually quite a compact system I have to say now
given our amount of time we could spend
the next I don't know day two days getting
everything absolutely perfect in the SolidWorks model instead we're just
going to start building and when we find something that's wrong we fix it I think
I want to cut this gear first one thing that's new in
the shop is this laser it's bigger
and slower than our last one but it'll
hopefully be just fine lasering is kind of more of an art than a science and in
talking to Colin his guidance is if it lights on fire change the settings so
that's basically what we're gonna do here
most of it went through but I'm not confident that all of it did
let's see barely
once we have our settings dialed in the idea is to just Huck down a piece of
plywood everything we want to laser we just do in one go it just runs for like
two hours and at the end all of our components are done don't even need to
open it up to know that that one worked way better than the other ones what
ended up solving our problem was instead of focusing the beam at the top of the
board we focused it kind of halfway down
so like you know a laser has a beam that's kind of like a cone
and so by focusing it so that the cone
is in the center of the board instead of the top we were able to get all the way
through no problem look at this our first proper gear from here Sebastian is
going to be helping doing all of our lasering tying in on the right there is
going to be doing the CNC stuff and I unfortunately have to do welding I'm
really bad at it so we're not going to film too much and when it's all ground
down and okay we'll show you it if you're not familiar
with these angle finders they are freaking awesome you can pick them up a
Canadian Tire for like 15 bucks and let's just verify things like
that's 45 degrees beautiful now we get to do that cut like
16 more times
we do lots of dumb sketchy things around here but this
this is pretty up there I wanted to take this stool to sit on it while I weld and
uh it's holding up our paint booth table
with this clamp that's that's great okay well yeah sure
it's fine all right got a stool
you know what I said I wasn't gonna show my Wells but screw it given that I
haven't touched the welder really since the pyramid VC I'm happy with these
they're not too bad I know if I put this on a welding Facebook group they get
really mad but like just be happy with the world you got as
impressive as it would be if our PC played the marble machine song it does
not unless you count loading up a YouTube
video a YouTube video then then it can play that song and many many more
and so this is what we are trying to make
trying you say well today we're trying
by the end of tomorrow it'll be done okay this is our motherboard tray right
here everything is built off of that isn't that gorgeous it is I love it
I like our new laser cutter step one is
to install our threaded inserts into our motherboard tray these are pretty cool
they've got threading on the outside which is coarse for wood and then
they've got threading on the inside which will be perfect for our standard
PC motherboard standoffs let's just hope that we don't split anything as we're
going in here
570 Creator from ASUS
this thing's got basically everything you could want 128 gig RAM support up to
four Gen 4 m.2 ssds DisplayPort injection for the built-in Thunderbolt
4. that's super cool because it means that whatever kind of Hub you run over
any distance you can just have a full resolution monitor that's driven by your
discrete GPU which in this case is going to be a Quadro which is a lot better
than your onboard Graphics which we won't even have on this machine anyway
and most importantly it fits perfectly
onto our standoff please all right before you do all of that you want me to
save you a step oh yes yeah you should probably put the CPU Cooler oh our
motherboard tray doesn't have a back plate yep or well a punch out yeah yeah
if that makes sense you don't want a hole in your song because then you
wouldn't have the whole song man this is gonna be a gorgeous machine
if these renders end up being a reflection of what it actually looks
like I did a proper render too so you're telling me all the other renders are not
proper like when you rendered the um sketchy heatsink uh yeah wow you did do
a proper render I hadn't even seen that one yet yeah I like it
do you remember single slot gpus
uh only in quadras because I remember look at that
she fits so that's how we're accounting
for the PCI covers yeah wow it's like
right there it's like perfect it's like actually perfect okay so this needs um
well you're not gonna like what's gonna come next oh
we need the cutter to cut us PCIe slots from that case
right there oh that's fine do you want to do the honors line us
everyone gets mad when I use power tools
why this super cheap case PCIe slot
thingy is really good is because instead of having like you know how they
normally have those nice like curves and stuff right inset this is just flat they
actually simplified the bending of the sheet metal that they use to make the
case which is perfect for our uses yeah boom
nice well other way yeah so no basically
like that so we're not flat enough yet no do I
have it in kind of a good spot to go flat like I don't know you're just
hucking in the Bison going oh wow I think you're thinking about this too
much well I think thinking about it a little is not a terrible plan this
doesn't even account for seven PCIe slots I don't think
that's fine our motherboard only has six well you left all seven on here so
there's your problem before you cut anything let's think extremely carefully
here if we line this up here and we mark
it we can probably save ourselves a little bit of back and forth
and that right there is where it needs
to be then so we just chop off a slot uh
yes
I don't know what quality of Steel this is
but it's probably somewhere between toast and cheese I think I know roughly
where this Bend needs to be and where we can
chop it
please do not break
it would appear that this is working one
of the most important things we have to remember to do is to pre-drill literally
everything so if we just Huck a screw into this the wood's probably going to
split and this whole piece is ruined
you can just hear the wood ing to split as this goes in it's so
close to the edge you might notice that there are two screw holes here that we
drilled then we realized that those are going to butt up against the motherboard
tray so we can't use those they'll just be like pressed in by the motherboard
tray that's awesome yeah I mean it's
really hard to install screws in your
cards but oh yeah that sounds like someone else's
problem yeah it's gonna be terrible we need to pre-drill all of these yeah yeah
then we'll put down some glue and screw it together and hopefully it doesn't
split okay
what are we using uh screws well yeah gonna be solid as l
really no go to Linus um if I thought of that I would have
said it
yeah that was kind of scary yeah okay so
we can install the Quadra now then right yeah heck yeah I'm gonna need you to
kind of compress it a bit while I try to get this in there can we
get a hand someone get one more hand we need a push the back of the quadro or
lift it up a little bit because it keeps pushing the screw okay it's lined up now
I just have to find a way to turn the script
this is horrible wait boys I think I got
it it's in I want to be clear that repairability was something that we
tried to design into this um
apologies German car makers when people get mad at you for dumb things that you
do like this yeah uh bottom uh but uh uh
here right yeah okay bottom me
oh hey we got some shout outs here really you shouted out yourself
I did well yeah he did oh okay it's the
designers of the case that was very kind of you thank you let's get the screws in
here why don't we do there's a power one of those uh because I'm scared of
powering that no way I got this don't worry what could go wrong is this even
gonna fit in here sure that's what she said
how many lmgers and guests does it take
to build a box out of wood building a box out of wood is actually not that
easy it's incredible the things that Woodworkers do
what how much wood would a woodwork work if a woodwork could work wood so this is
the final one we're screwing it in this is it it's go time um I guess so I guess so don't sound too
confident Alex so let's get this corner perfect let's go screw screw screw and
we'll go from there okay watching nerds build boxes standing on stools hello
OSHA do you want to take that off of the drill setting nope I like the drill
setting
oh yeah it's not your two days of work
going into these hey touch it is it perfect or not
it's not the perfectness that I'm concerned about it's all in the wrist
you let the tort carry the ARM and then that that's what absorbs the the stop
only there was something that could do that automatically for you look at that
man it's a computer dog
what do you mean it's a lot Sterling you expect of course it's sturdy it's like
it's made of wood let's attach the fans
um the sticker we could remove the sticker
for a clean look but what we might end up with is residue we can't take off I
can pretty much guarantee that this fan is older than my children
so I vote leave it I think it's going to
be very difficult to remove cleanly he's going for it
it comes off actually very mostly-ish cleanly oh okay
that's the word for it being
it's a rich language it can't possibly
be there can't possibly be a word just for that
I believe you I guess we need nuts which nuts
one second I can only tee him up so like
beautifully I needed to pick them up okay Deez Nuts right there
let's get our D15 installed and this thing is just it looks like it means
business you know you think you can get the RAM in there
no problem uh yeah
ooh 64 gigs 3 200 probably what like c16
yeah nice
those are all in Prime px1000 not bad a
thousand Watts baby you put the storage in uh
oh crap crap uh here these might take away from
lanes that would otherwise be PCR Express slots and stuff I'd have to
double check the manual what about we stick it in here and I fix it tomorrow
and put it in the other one yeah and we'll have footage right now of me
fixing it so that you know that we're not lying sure oh wow two terabytes of
m.2 and another four terabytes of two and a half inch do you have any two and
a half inch mounts you're gonna go get the tape oh no
I love these things so much I know right these two less m.2s
amazing
that might be a little fast
we might have to put a little resistor in there or something now obviously I'm
not the only one who wants to see how fast it spins at 12 volt right
wait was that 12 volt that was 12 volt oh I
had it wired up wrong so I guess we can plug it into the 12
volt and have a pot and it'll be perfect that's the way to go because it won't
start at five volt there's just too much mass too much inertia
5900x all 64 gigs of RAM detected
storage device detected we haven't plugged this one in yet everything's
looking good this thing is sick yeah good job you and
Tynan shout out to SolidWorks for their gear toolbox made making those real easy
I want to go back to 12 volts
pretty loud CPU goober
oh you can hook it up to this to the
temperature of the CPU oh
oh that would be so cool I mean we could
do it with a relay and an Arduino or something but to do it simply we have
some yeah some transistors so we could
just so we could just hook that up to the pwm and the 12 volt would be super
cool also super annoying it's a little
loud yeah it's pretty loud
on this PC there's loads we need to get done today so we have to cut the top
panel glue the ribs together and sand them down weld the frame paint the legs
get the front i o attached attach the feet so it stays nice and level at a
gear switch so they don't just run all the time and also do a fan curve for
them we need an SSD bracket so it doesn't just float around decided that
the double-sided tape isn't a great idea attach the hinge attach the latch and
finally install Windows foreign so it's what it's a 5 30. Linus
isn't here he's doing WAN Show right now he couldn't join us unfortunately
now this right here was our beautiful
idea for how to make it repairable so it has this wonderful hinge these nice ribs
lots of airflow through here problem is the heads of the screws are hitting each
other so instead of going flush it's sitting proud like that I have a
couple of possible solutions including a lot more grinding and mostly a lot more
grinding so we took out some screws and apparently it works now
it didn't quite feel like it was getting caught on one of the screws when we were
putting it together and either one of the bolts one of the screws we took out
was the actual problem
yeah it very well may have been resting on something that we just weren't seeing
so we'll start putting screws back in until either they're all back in
or it starts interfering again in the
cad we put a nice little hole in the bottom to run the cabling up
however when we were going through it we ended up not actually cutting it out on
the router like had been intended unfortunately
there's kind of a computer in the case who would have thought yeah I can
understand why everyone always says okay make sure everything's ready and don't
build in the case until it's done yeah I blame mine is too but also this
is going to be an interesting time oh one more thing oh
can we put a piece of coal in your butt I want to make some diamonds
here we go oh let there be smoke
oh and let there be smoke again and with any luck
hey we're through all of this could have been solved if we had just cut the hole
on the router in the first place yeah I can just pass through
all right so Martin I wouldn't entirely trust these screws they're only half an
inch long it's probably fine but like you know
lifted up supporting everything don't
just like carry it around by this like
that or yeah to hold this whole thing down we have this very nice latch so one
side other side you know Clips together
something like that it's pretty neat problem is it was
supposed to go on the bottom of this
and then this side goes right there so
it goes down and it's in way too far there's this
horrible thing called tolerance stack and if you're an engineer you probably
just shuttered so it's basically where there's a whole bunch of dimensions and
if you get all of them just a tiny bit wrong it can add up to this instead of
being like you know flush out here it's
in a half an inch because you know you lose an eighth of an inch back here an
eighth of an inch right there an eighth of an inch in here an eighth of an inch
right there next thing you know it doesn't work which means what we have to do is I put my hand through the power
supply hole hold it right here this is now a lifting hole not a latch hole
please work I swear to go I'm going to home either way but like
oh it does the thing yeah it did it it's
latched it is now Monday we were hoping to have the PC done by now
but it's not but it does need to be done by the end of the day so I'm going to LA in a
couple hours this should look really good we printed off this nice little
holder so now I can just
hopefully find a place for it and screw
it in
with the help of about 50 zip ties this
is looking not too bad I'm really sorry Martin for whenever you want to upgrade
this because it's going to be a nightmare getting all
those cables out it's going to look good though
oh yeah hell yes
let's see if we can get into the BIOS here there we go that's a bit more chill
uh what does the switch work nice
because you don't you don't want that on all the time now let's just hit it with a cinebench
run and with any luck
yes the gears start moving faster when the
computer is working harder that is freaking sick okay let's turn that off
they're a little bit loud I think you can get a graphite powder that'll quiet
it down a little bit but that's not my problem anymore so Martin I really hope
you like this thing it was um a metric go to work and I'm sorry that this is
your first PC coming from Mac it's not going to be the easiest to use but it is
going to be one of the most sweetest also huge thanks to Yannick Sebastian
and Tynan for all the work that they put into making this more like a piece of
art than I ever could have done on my own and huge thanks to SolidWorks for
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this video maybe watch our whole series on the pyramid PC that was another
obscenely difficult and very off-the-walls project more off the walls
than this even if four thousand dollars in RGB alone
this one makes more sense this one's better it's not a stupid though