{"video_id":"S6AnKm2_080","title":"The RGB Chair NO ONE asked for","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":493,"segments":[{"start_s":6.12,"end_s":12.88,"text":"here at the lonus Media Group optomechanics and medical mood lighting","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.88,"end_s":16.4,"text":"research facility we firmly believe in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.88,"end_s":19.72,"text":"pushing the boundaries of RGB technology","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.4,"end_s":23.039,"text":"and today you'll witness the fruit of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.72,"end_s":26.599,"text":"literally several hours of planning","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.039,"end_s":27.92,"text":"Behold our allnew electromagnetic","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.599,"end_s":31.96,"text":"ergonomics device the Raba 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get","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":476.56,"end_s":482.12,"text":"subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we feature","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":480.12,"end_s":486.68,"text":"at the link in the video description also down there is a link to where to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":484.0,"end_s":490.319,"text":"wait uh yeah merch store and the other thing that I usually say right our","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":488.52,"end_s":494.769,"text":"community Forum which you should totally join","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"here at the lonus Media Group optomechanics and medical mood lighting research facility we firmly believe in pushing the boundaries of RGB technology and today you'll witness the fruit of literally several hours of planning Behold our allnew electromagnetic ergonomics device the Raba chair the be quiet! purebase 600 features a versatile design noise isolation and is optimized for different liquid radiator configurations learn more at the link below have you ever been sitting there in the dark admiring your RGB computer and thought gee why doesn't my chair also have RGB lighting well I was and I did so I sent an email off to cable mod and before I knew it a massive box of LED strips arrived at the office I mean man I thought we were RGB crazy then those guys were all like get on my level anyway step one was to find a chair the one we chose for the job was the verar 350 we hoped its mesh backing would allow our lighting effects to shine through and the cool swoopy construction would give us tons of options for mounting our adhesive backed RGB strips next we needed to pop open some packages and mock up how we thought the RGB strips might mount on the chair using our preferred method of mechanical fastening generic zip ties we tried a few different configurations finally settling on this this process process helped us find the best routing for the strips around the chair without ruing the precious adhesive which we'll need later on and without getting a bunch of extra wires cluttering up our build speaking of things we'll need later on though we hadn't quite figured out by this stage how we were going to power the lights so we tested the strips the dirty Way by having an RGB tail hanging out and connecting them directly to a motherboard looks fantastic I mean man could there be anything more beautiful on this Earth I don't think so obviously though there are a few suboptimal things about this method for example moving around is something that's nice to be able to do you don't want to risk tearing out your motherboard if you need to spin quickly and deal with a cat vomit situation and being a able to put the side panel on your rig is an extra bonus so with those things in mind we set to work cleaning up the chair extra attention and Care was taken to be sure that the adhesive on the cable mod cables could hold onto the chair while bending around its complex and seductive curves we used zip ties to help out wherever possible but in some places even those wouldn't be able to save us if the adhesive wasn't able to hold the strips on learning from the mistakes we made during the mockup phase we upgraded the lighting setup at this stage to ensure that even where the sun don't shine our chair would we added ass lighting with the only part of the chair left naked being the headrest The Next Step was probably the most difficult we needed to achieve Wireless operation initially we were thinking we'd try making our own RGB controller with an Arduino so to control each ch panel we connected mosfets to the pwm outputs allowing us to adjust the brightness of red green and blue independently fun fact when the RGB strip was attached to our bench power supply we noticed that the power drawn was heavily color dependent we knew that blue light has a higher energy than red light but we were still surprised by how big the change in power was blue consumed five times the power of red anyway what we were hoping to achieve with this was to use two arduinos one connected to the ASUS or a sync port on the motherboard that then sends data wirelessly to a second on the chair that sinks between the chair and the computer unfortunately while this would have been possible using XPS our arduinos did not have the wireless Shields and at this point we didn't have the time to spend waiting on them to arrive maybe the RGB chair will make an appearance with this upgrade at some point in the future anyway we settled on cable mods included solution for now this does waste some of the excellent work we did on the Arduino but it makes it simpler to use more reliable and much easier for our viewers at home to replicate so to power the strips we simply velcroed a battery Bank to the bottom of our chair then adapted the included 12volt output wires to work with our cable mod controller sure a 23,000 Milah battery Bank might seem slightly Overkill but come on man we're lonus Tech tips and with this sucker on here you'll get an estimated 50 hours of RGB chair fun in between charges bringing us finally to the oh oh crap we forgot our pre-flight check battery check connections check Fat Beat check totally unnecessary check we are good to go look at that I've got one right here we never we are never far from an iFixit prot tool kit this thing is flipping awesome it includes the 64bit driver kit which is held in place by freaking magnets I mean how cool is that it includes their prying tools their spudgers their uh ESD safe tweezers their ESD wrist trrap their uh suction cups for pulling screens off it includes pretty much everything you could possibly need to take apart and repair your electronics because damn it you paid for that stuff you should be allowed to fix it and they've got tons of great guides on the ifixit.com website that will help you save money you can usually and this is from my personal experience buy the tools that you would need from my fix it in place of paying someone else to do it one time and then you have everything you need forever so head over to ifixit.com Linus and use code Linus at the checkout to save five bucks on your next tool purchase of $10 or more so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video then quit being a hater RGB is the future and if you like this video hit that like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we feature at the link in the video description also down there is a link to where to wait uh yeah merch store and the other thing that I usually say right our community Forum which you should totally join"}