since the day I had children I've dreamed of one thing but sending them to
college are you kidding me no building
the ultimate gaming minivan that's right my friends under this FSE floor I've got
RGB cooling four MSI laptops with RTX
470 Graphics a gigantic battery bank
that is powered by the solar panels on the top of the flipp and band built-in
Wireless networking and four high
refresh rate gaming monitors one for each
child and an extra the whole thing is powered by MSI massive shout out to them
for sponsoring this video and we're using their stealth laptops which are
professional enough to take to a business meeting during the day and powerful enough to game at night or in
the back of a car let's show you how we built it since the last time that you
guys saw the gaming minivan there's been a couple of improvements first of all is
a big safety upgrade we have a breaker
right here for the wiring that goes to the back front from the battery now not
the alternator another thing we have solar panels these guys right here have
been professionally installed so you don't have to worry about them flipping
off and killing someone behind you and speaking of killing people uh we need to
do a lot of improvements back here first of which is that this is not attached in
any way at all so if we have a bit of a roll you're going to have 100 lb of
lithium iron phosphate batteries knocking you in the head not a good time
that's pretty easy to fix but all of this I want to redo getting that
attached down really won't be all of that difficult there's some nice holes
through the chassis right here that we can just bolt into easy peasy oh my God
we're doing Starling uh don't show that uh that's
kind of a bonus at the moment if everything goes really well today we
figure that out tomorrow I see wait are we going to have a usable trunk space
yes you'll have a usable trunk space Oh that's a big Improvement yeah and we'll
have RGB fans on either side so that we
you know have air flow down there of course of course we will from there very
simple just infinite cables absolutely hooked us up and you have a bunch of
these really stupid looking seat covers that make hiding them very easy okay
those were like the only seat covers that were available for this van so you
can hate on them all you want but it is in like new condition and I have three
kids so y I'm sure that the next owners will
really appreciate you taking that bullet they will how about the solar panels can
we can you at least keep these as is oh yeah I'm not touching those those were
professionally installed and not my problem at all just plug them in they
should work cool that would be great because so far all they've generated for
me is extra wind noise and probably extra gas on your bill too and a bunch
of dead bugs groy these go on the backs of the seats
using these wild adapters from Condor blue
these are NATO rail to what was it re locating pin or something it slides onto
here somehow tightens on okay and then
just threads into presumably something
yeah we haven't totally figured out the something bit but we have a torok so
that should be very simple cool and then there's game controllers and these look
awful yeah they look terrible but hopefully you won't have to use them
very much oh man that's going to be freaking awesome oh yeah this is going
to be a sick setup all right it's time to start building which an hour shop
means it's time to 3D modeling stuff you can see right here
I have the fan cover made but I know what you're thinking Alex you only
installed solid works on this thing because MSI sponsored the video and you
would be correct because normally we would be doing it on this MSI laptop as
you can see it is our shop laptop and it is incredibly dirty we've been using it
for the last couple of years and we have like right here the 3D printed models
for our little screwdriver making jig but this thing has been awesome for us
unfortunately a lot of you guys might work somewhere where uh a bunch of RGB
like that do not fly which is where of
course the new stealth is just awesome also 16x 10 absolutely love it you can
see just a little bit more vertically
and it just makes so much more sense for stuff like this and
also you can turn off the RGB and your boss isn't going to get mad that you can
actually game really fast after
work
this is why having robots to do your stuff is so fantastic the first
prototype that we did took about an hour to get all of the setup done and
everything like that the second one took us 3 minutes and 30 seconds we didn't
even have to do anything of course if you're going to replicate this at home you don't need a big old CNC machine to
make a part like this and you can buy headrest mounts off of the internet for
relatively cheap but we weren't able to get any of those here in time for when we wanted to make
the video another huge upgrade to the rotor that we have is a composite nail
gun so we can just chck a piece of plywood down and
boom just shoot some Nails into it it'll stay there and if the bit runs over
these since they are not metal it's just totally fine it just
stays all right time to make the plywood for the false
floor
perfect yay we've got the plywood for
the top made now I just need to make these fan mounts and we will have RGB
fans in a minivan we have our laptop stand here and our piece of ABS that we
cut on the Avid we chose ABS because it's very easy to bend using
heat now I want to make my fan holders that are going to go on on the top false
floor although it's going to be absolutely perfect and I know this cuz
I've already screwed it up but I did it with cardboard so the laser cutter is
absolutely incredible or you can even just use a printer if you prefer that so
that you can take your design and be like wow those holes don't line up and
then you've wasted this much scrap cardboard instead of a whole bunch of
very expensive aluminum then you can very easily go put them in the right
spot and be like haha in my expensive material it's just going to
work
after an hour and 40 minutes of machine time I have my bits and they're ready to
be cut out turns out you can make your own
clips for webbing just like
that all of our aluminum parts are going to be sand blasted which takes it from a
finish like this to that we're doing this for two reasons for one it looks
pretty good and also sand blasting does not have to dry afterwards so we don't
have to waste time waiting for paint although the robots have done a lot of our job sometimes it's easier to just do
it by hand fan fits get this all carpeted up
and it's going to look
fantastic I know you'll blame it on your kids but like vacuum your van sometimes
lus geez byy are we ready to build yes it looks
absolutely beautiful looks beautiful you say yes cool and I'm glad you're so
confident because I have a bit of a surprise for you mhm we are going
camping this weekend oh so in 2 hours
this has to be ready for me to take the kids on a road trip wow great but you
were so confident a second ago you said it was beautiful it isn't right now we
better get started let's get all of the monitors in everything's wired up okay
so we should be able to just attach them to the seats that's set cool wow did we
Fab these yeah on the tmw this looks sick yeah okay let's go
install it not going to lie these mounts
are freaking sick I do want this really
tight though because if it comes loose the monitor is going to be going all
over the place these are mobile displays so they don't use a full-sized HDMI port
that's why we got to adapt from full-sized HDMI down to micro
HDMI you then we're using type c for power Boop as long as we got enough
Slack here all this is going to do is slip onto
here this is going to be the best incar
entertainment system ever the one in the Escalade is pretty sick better than this
you need to add the laptops but it is pretty darn good I got a 165 HZ display
there's no way they got that I don't know it's got 36 speakers I can use
Dolby Atmos headphones it also comes with headphones for each person person
you don't want to find out what the deal is for power well wait what yes I do
it's fine it's fine where is this coming from that's coming from the spare tire
area this car has a spare tire yeah this car has a spare tire well where is it
it's down here oh my God I have a spare tire what the heck is this that's why I
said you don't want to look at it it's just Vel what is this velcro tape no
it's Loom tape or Tessa tape also you
owe me a roll of Tessa tape now it's time to talk about this
you guys promised an upgraded mounting system and uh I got to say I feel like
you delivered laptops go here the
ecoflow hub goes here the ecoflow batteries go here and here and the best
part is with what looks like fairly
simple Home Depot level fabrication we get a false floor that we
can actually put supplies on when we go on a road trip Home Depot in a CN router
but yes yeah we did make our own buckles for this though those are the prototypes
those are made of wood yeah those are the prototypes is there a reason we
opted for the wood ones no we we have metal these are just simple prototypes
you cut it on the laser first see if it works then you make it out of metal okay
way easier okay but so we're going to go with wood then or we're going to put the metal one on we're going to put the
metal one on I'm just checking I'm just checking I don't take anything for granted around here in a nutshell this
takes power from the now upgraded because we had some problems alternator
of the vehicle and from the solar panels that are mounted to the roof it uses
that to charge up the batteries that we're going to put on in a moment and
then outputs either AC or DC depending
on your needs do you need a stubby screwdriver for this by any chance uh
movie now is a perfect opportunity to promote it hold on where's my
backpack hey there we go let's go stubby
screwdriver yes all right here we go how
are we bolting this to the floor exactly with these with
bolts these look long enough to go through the bottom of my car exactly
thank goodness my wife has seen none of this oh she's going to see it and she's
going to be so impressed the last project that she saw was the water cooled bed so like her expectations are
probably so low right now okay so just move around the bolt until I feel it and
then we'll we'll know it's okay I I feel there we go hey system works these bolts
go through the batter mounts through the bottom of the chassis and then they're
going to be nutted on from the bottom and then I mean probably rusted on at
some point hey are we using uh stainless steel by any chance oh sorry I didn't
mean to have my feet above your face like that uh I think it's galvanized
bolts but I don't actually know oh uh we're kind of thinking that we could
upgrade them later okay cool ah why is all this stuff falling on
my face right now ah it's all Road seems
like it's really not going anywhere one of those bolts is good for about 600 lb
straight pull uh 120,000 PSI okay not
bad batteries sure
boom battery straps installed sir next
is the Wi-Fi hello we were hoping to know what to do
with the Wi-Fi I think it's going on the
top of the Eco flow you think that was the plan last time okay so it's just
this we already have the magnets installed we put this on top of the Eco
flow just like Boop and we're done yep sweet well that's really easy then yeah
o now's as good a time as any to show off the product we're using we've got
early production samples of our magnetic mounts basically it goes on any Keyhole
thing like this slide it
in screw it tight and boom magnetic
Wi-Fi router let's go the reason they have both VHB backing and and screw
holes is that the idea is that you take these you stick them down so you don't
have to do any measuring or anything stupid like
that then you slide it off and screw
them in or if you happen to be attaching to a power hub you just don't screw it
in there yay what was the point of building fancy Wi-Fi 60 into this thing
MSI when we were just going to use wires anyway got him what's next a stupid plan
oh no it's not actually that stupid seems to involve a hammer so it's going
to be at least a little stupid hammer and these nicely modified bolts you just
invented a metal pointy stick yes a really short one oh my God I think I see
where this is going we have these posts yes I see that we have this plate so we
just screw these in and then they're pointy on the top Y and then we just
whack it yep and then we have our holes or we drill the holes after oh this is
just to Mark the location that's actually way less stupid than you made
it seem you know how long I've wanted to do this I think this first made its way
into the dock before you worked here yeah I think so what could go
wrong okay well there's that one there's that one yep nailed it I mean hammered
it they were bolts
hi I couldn't help noticing that all the computers go in the back under a false
floor how do we turn them on
oh my God are you just are you meing right now or did you actually not I did
not think of that at all oh
God uh we turned them on and put them down there I guess they only ever go to
sleep if the kids shut down the computers sorry kids no gaming we're
going to need a better solution for this in the long term but it ain't happening
today anyway have you seen these knobs see this is the problem with Engineers
okay they build you the finest knob and
then yes you you 3D printed a knob with
an LTT logo on it you did good how do I
turn on the computer Alex this is why
like it or not they do still need me here what oh just to think of little
details like how to reach a power button you just take the false floor off I did
think of how to properly control the RGB so you can connect it to the player one
computer with this little hub right here
and then you can have fan speed control based off of that computer and also
control the RGB in your trunk we've actually got two different computers for
the setup but they're not as different as you might think we've got the stealth
16 studio and the stealth 14 studio and
then we've also got the stealth 16 studio in white okay they really did
send us quite the variety pack here the point is this one's an engineering
sample we can't actually game on it we can't no oh okay the point is the ones
we can game on have core i7 process processors RTX 470 graphic like okay
cool all the connectivity we need steel series keyboards that looks like a
really bright vibrant display do you have specs for that 40z oh sick not that
I'll be using it but cool and look at that the team pre-loaded some games we
got vampire survivors Dirt 2 overcooked
cuz I need my kids playing overcooked in the car oh good that'll help with
squabbling don't touch the rice I'm in
of rice we got a little confused by one of MSI's talking points for these
laptops they say it has a vapor chamber cooling design to unleash the maximum
performance but then a separate one says it has a heat pipe cooling design to
unleash the maximum performance it turns out it has both so cool I don't really
care how they do it as long as we get these installed and they're able to stay
cool and run it full performance in a fairly uh restrictive environment
they're going to go in like this with the smaller one toward the back back and
the bigger one toward the here we go
front of the vehicle and the idea is that even though they're different sizes
now they are at about the same height so when we put the false floor on we should
have plenty of clearance one concern is this top of this getting like beat up
going in and out I think we're going to put some kind of rubber thing here but
one of their other talking points for this is that it's extremely fingerprint resistant which so far it actually seems
to be holding up pretty well in spite of my fingers being absolutely groy right
now man the back of this looks freaking awesome yeah those are chunky HDMI
cables yep one is much signal Integrity
as we can before we go to that stupid adapter micro HDMI C that's fair display
settings it should be duplicated there we
go nice okay and then I close this and
nothing happens right yay yay okay
fantastic okay where's that power squid going to live I was kind of thinking
that we could sort of tie it down to the
strap sort of like there somewhere what do you guys need help with now you just
got something pwned off to you and where's this going this is a touchcreen
that is to like Monitor and control the whole thing back here the Ecco flow okay
so it kind of goes where the driver can see it and touch it okay ha good luck in
our perfect world the plan was kind of heish oh wait we could just ruin your
phone mount and attach to that we could just put it in the middle Y how will I
Google Maps though uh through Android
auto this is a 2016 sir I do not have
Android auto that's why I have a phone mount let's just Chuck it in the center
console yay it's probably occurred to
some of you that it might make more sense to do something like this with mini PCS rather than laptops both from a
cost and practicality perspective but what you can't do with mini PCS is haul
them all out when you reach your destination and then you know game on
the picnic table I have some bad news oh my God there's no headrests in that
style in the middle seats they are in that style they're
very slightly different they are about
a/4 inch different so even if you like hold them up to one each other they look
the same until you do it like here cuz
it's just ever so slightly different
there we go RGB
power it looks like it should work one of our stretch goals is starlink
Internet it's already I think an hour and a half past wano it doesn't seem
like a good time to be attacking stretch goals but like Sebastian was looking for
something to do and I thought I'd help got nothing better to try okay let's try
it's really big it's really big is this the like business like you can use it
anywhere one or whatever I have no idea ah yes yes ah okay when I plug this in
we should have fans there we go all my controllers and
everything are paired we're just about ready to close it up but we haven't
dealt with networking yet and oh I was
about to say the 13-in ones don't have Ethernet Jacks
but USBC to e okay all right see you
later Alex hi a wild Luke and Dan appear
Luke's helping now yeah go on
this oh c it magically worked hey
hey well that's a problem I guess we're
just going to keep screwing it on in spite of that cool you need something to
stop whatever is the other side cuz if you press into that the fan blades are
touching something okay well what I can do on my trip
is I can just wedge something into this corner you just need another post or
something to hold it up and then how professional does that look
once we cover it all up I say very
should we see if we can get any power to the solar sure okay let's pull it out of
here hey 174 okay you know what's funny is what I
was expecting was a couple of mirrored displays one system and then just like
they all have to play the same game this is absolutely
wild everyone can be doing completely their own thing oh yeah there's
headphones we have headsets we are clearly not doing that today I mean
these also have built-in speakers so I guess that's fine too for now sick oh no
there's headphone Jacks ah hey Luke do
you want to grab the ecoflow thing and see how much power we're drawing now that Dan and Sebastian are both playing
games yeah output 330 Watts oh shoot is
my son playing rocket league right now
okay I'm just going to boot him sorry sweetie he's probably just going to from
rocket League he might have been in a ranked match he's probably in a ranked
match I know I'm a terrible father okay
seat belts everyone it's road trip time boys got to set a good example for the
people this is awesome I am very motion
safe so you can actually adjust the amperage I think yes in the menu you can
oh yeah turn up the amperage you take that up and we'll just crank this up to
how much double it see if it breaks the car double it you limps input 400 watts
all right freaking a and it doesn't really
change if you rev or not so we're pretty much
green this is awesome okay I'm going to
steal Creator Warehouse engineering for more projects I know that's not what I'm
supposed to do but um hey they're your employees this is awesome yeah but they
work for a different company that's like really not how that works who do you
think I am you know Elon Musk bringing in Tesla engineers at Twitter those fans
are going back there hey I think that's the laptops oh the laptop fans yeah
they're probably should we check our thermals 86 okay that's more than reasonable
that's not bad at all actually how's our GPU doing hot spot maxed out at 70 no 80
that's great awesome this is awesome news don't mind me casually sitting in
the van getting ready for our trip the next day and what what's this 250 WS of
solar charging right now 300 WS from solar hey Kitty boo Hi traffic can't
ruin our day how was your camping trip kids love
it it went great it was pretty much like this they played games in the car which
kept them nice and quiet and then we arrive at the campsite pull out
the starlink go got the four laptop land
party we didn't even need to pull out the Wi-Fi router because as it turns out
you can all just hot spot to the starlink and you're good to go and okay
yeah I guess you guys are all connected already Alex is playing rocket League
really you're playing overcooked by yourself yeah that's kind of weird I
mean it's fun Le makes sense but the
whole thing unpacks and is ready to go in about 6 minutes freaking awesome but
to take it to the next level starlink kind of the star of the show here we
have a single session of Ultimate Chicken horse going right now with all
four players in it get this using Steam
remote play and guys I mean is it working everyone go to the farm I'm
ready up yeah it's going great how did I die uh hockey puck to the
face there is a significant host Advantage I'm not going to
lie man my hockey P give it keeps on
giving man whoa you snake almost ate the puck ate
the puck snake this is so much better than real
camping and this might just be the ultimate gaming minivan you don't even
have to sit in the minivan yeah take the
whole thing out and it's like seriously I cannot believe how well this was
performing the fact that you guys are able to play this game at all using Steam remote play on satellite internet
like this I can't believe that we can see the screens there's a sun behind us
I honestly thought that we just kind of have to fake it oh yeah I had no trouble with it at all it's actually great this
is flipping awesome oh I'm dead oh I
died too not that it matters I'll be getting plenty of opportunities to play
with this and it is every bit as fun as it looks because let you guys in on a
little secret okay there were some delays I've actually had this installed
in my van for like 6 weeks now and it's been amazing if you guys enjoyed this
video hey you might enjoy the last time we did a video in a car Alex any
thoughts uh gr Corolla sure how about
just to r view of a car