WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.359 You can cool a computer with hot air. And heat from a computer in a small 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:10.000 confined space equals well, a whole lot 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:13.200 of swath. Fortunately, I have a solution. By encasing my computer in 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:18.240 this here grow tent, I want to be cool as a cucumber. 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:20.880 Cool. Just like our sponsor, Zoho Desk. 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:24.800 Over 50,000 businesses worldwide trust Zoho's contextaware help desk to improve 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:29.439 productivity and ensure their customers are kept happy. Get 50% off your annual 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:33.520 subscription with code zesk50 at the link down below. To start, I'd like to 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:37.840 thank the mining community for the glut of cheap GPUs that they just flooded the 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:42.399 market with and also the idea to enase your computer in a wood grow tent. Now, 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:46.960 with gaming computers just drawing so many watts these days, it might make 00:00:44.559 --> 00:00:51.200 sense to do this with a single gaming computer instead of a whole mining rack. 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:54.480 Before we get to it, though, I want to just describe why this idea actually 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.840 isn't all that dumb. There are a number of ways to try and cool down in the 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:01.600 summer. You could just point a fan at your face, but that doesn't fix the fact 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:05.600 that your room is still super hot. Cracking a window can also work when 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:08.960 it's cool outside, but on the days when you need it the most, the air from the 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:12.799 outside's probably hotter than the air inside your house. Another option would 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:16.320 be to install an air conditioner, but that comes with its own whole set of 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.119 problems. If you only have a single circuit in your room, there's a good 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:23.360 chance that running an air conditioner and a gaming PC at the same time will 00:01:21.119 --> 00:01:28.960 result in tripping a breaker. Second cost. Our grow tent cost us only $65, 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:33.040 while an okayish air conditioner starts at 10 times that. Also, I'm sure your 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:36.159 friends on Discord won't be super stoked when you're running a compressor right 00:01:34.479 --> 00:01:40.079 next to your mic, and it doesn't get to the root problem that we have. You're 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.600 creating a bunch of heat in a small little room. I have air conditioning 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.520 that's in my apartment, but that does not help me when I'm sealed in this room 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:51.759 just poaching in my own sweat. Which brings us to the final option. Just open 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:55.600 the door, maybe. Well, if you live alone, then sure. But yelling at your 00:01:53.759 --> 00:01:59.280 useless teammate in Rocket League can be rather disturbing for the others in your 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:03.439 house. And unfortunately, the doors here have to stay closed. So, all right then. 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:06.799 Grow tent it is. Let's go and build it. All right. Let's see what we're working 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:11.840 with here. I got this grow tent from Amazon for $65. The reviews for it were 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:17.760 fine, but at the same time, no one was using it to cool a PC. So, I also saw 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:21.120 this one's 2 ft x 2 ft. But some reviews of grow tents, not this one 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:24.160 specifically, they were like, "Oh, it says it was 2 ft x 2 ft, but it was 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:28.879 actually more like 1 and 1/2." If that's the case, we're screwed. Oh my god, 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:34.080 that's a that's green right there. I can already tell this is not going to be a 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:36.720 girlfriend approved setup. But 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:42.080 there it is. Look at the instructions. Step one, 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:46.599 frame. Step two, put the thing on. They're not wrong, but that's not the 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:46.599 most helpful. 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:52.959 In fairness to Vio Sun, this seems pretty self-explanatory. I don't think 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:59.200 we're going to have any trouble putting this together. One slightly unfortunate thing about 00:02:56.480 --> 00:03:05.120 doing it this way is that this is a lot bigger than my computer. In one 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:09.840 direction, 2T is about perfect to fit a normal desktop. Problem is, uh, my 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:14.319 desktop's definitely not 2 ft wide, and it's [music] definitely definitely not 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:17.760 36 in tall. This is going to be way bigger than it needs to be, but at the 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:19.760 same time, it's the smallest one I could get. Wait, David. 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.800 Yep. What do you think these are for? Horizontal reinforcement. 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:29.440 Did not improve the structural rigidity at all. We can worry about those later. 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:33.319 Yeah. Why is this what's holding it together? [laughter] It's 00:03:37.440 --> 00:03:43.360 Okay, feels not too bad now. I can dig this. I am slightly confused about all 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:47.280 the other stuff we have. I wonder if we'd get better performance with or 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:51.599 without the intakes [music] covered. We'll find that out later. Oh dear. It's 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:56.000 one of those things where they said that it was adjustable, but never mentioned 00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:59.439 how adjustable it was or like what the sizes were or anything like that. I 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.400 don't know if our tubing's going to fit in there. 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:07.920 Okay. Okay. Well, this is pretty unfortunate. I asked for insulated 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:13.680 tubing specifically because it was black on the outside. Um, we did not get the 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:18.320 right one. This is so weird. Okay. Is it going to 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:23.600 work though? Can we just chuck it in like that? Duct tape it up and call it a 00:04:21.359 --> 00:04:28.400 day. It'll need some work, but that's going to be just fine. Here's the basic 00:04:25.440 --> 00:04:32.720 plan. I have terrible, terrible, awful casement Windows. need to make a big old 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:37.680 adapter for it. That's what this is going to be. So, we have this right 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:41.520 here, hose adapter. Also, a big acrylic pane. So, hopefully I don't block too 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:45.120 much light. My favorite thing about this design, though, is that I had Sarah go 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.320 ahead and [music] draw me an elephant. This right here, when the hose comes 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:52.639 out, it should look like the elephant's trunk. I'm very stoked. Okay, let's do 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:55.919 it. Before we try cutting the big elephant, which is going to take about 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:59.600 half an hour, I want to just try etching a couple small ones, get the settings 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:02.960 dialed in, and then we can do the full thing and know that it's going to turn 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:06.639 out great. I'm super glad we tested out the etching of the elephant first, cuz 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.320 we had a little bit of a problem. The laser, you know, it travels fast, but 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:13.680 when it has to do a tight corner, it slows down and then accelerates back up. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:17.759 Normally, what you do in that situation is lower the amount of power that it's 00:05:15.919 --> 00:05:21.520 putting out. Problem is, we're already pretty much as low as our laser will go. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.120 It's too powerful for what we're doing today. Instead, what I've done is 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:28.813 defocused it. So, you know, we have a nice large beam. It disperses way more 00:05:27.039 --> 00:05:31.840 heat and hopefully we won't just have an [music] elephant fall out of our piece 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:37.680 at the end. As a bonus with these settings, it's only going to take like 10 minutes to attach a big sheet of 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:41.840 acrylic to the window. I'm going to make a bunch of little clamps out of HDPE. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:45.520 The material is a little bit overkill, but it also is the absolute perfect 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:48.400 piece of material for the job. And I had a big piece of it laying around. It 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:51.039 actually made this right here. The little extractor thingy. What the is 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:56.199 this called, David? I don't know. Dust collector. There we go. Got it. 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:02.560 I love this. We have such high utilization of the shop right now. We're 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:07.039 going to be doing this at the same time the laser's cutting our stuff out. And 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:11.199 if you come over here, our 3D prints have just started. This is going to take 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:14.800 us 14 hours. I really wish we had the Pantheon at this point in time, but uh 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:17.840 we don't. So, we're running two of them because if one of them fails, we are 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:22.319 completely screwed when we arrive here tomorrow to cut our HDP. We're using 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:27.440 this absolutely beautiful single flute. We can send it through this stuff at 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:28.720 like 160 in per minute. Freaking crazy. 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:32.319 Actually, it's going to take half a while cuz I need to swap out the tools 00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:36.240 for every single one. I'm trying some new scoloping stuff. Should have just 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:42.880 set it up on the Tormach, but whatever. It looks like our elephant's done. I am 00:06:37.919 --> 00:06:45.120 excited. Let's see here. Oops. Look at 00:06:42.880 --> 00:06:52.520 that. We need to take the backing off, but heck yeah. All right, first clamp. 00:06:48.880 --> 00:06:52.520 Hope this goes well. 00:06:52.960 --> 00:07:01.240 We need to get a tool changer for this thing. Avid CNC, make one. I would love 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:01.240 it. Everyone would love it. 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:09.680 Okay, I do need to slow it down a little bit. Got kind of wavy there on the side, 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:12.479 but overall parts good. Just need to make seven more of them. and I'll see 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:17.120 you tomorrow when that's done. Instead of yesterday taking the time to make all 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:21.919 of them, I took the time to optimize the G-code for it. So, no more tool change. 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:26.000 Look at that, David. That's looking pretty good. And it was all done with this flat 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:29.199 endmill. One of these only takes 1 minute and 30 seconds now. It's 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:34.560 wonderful. We'll have a bunch of them just [music] in case something goes wrong. Anyway, let's go over here. I 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:40.000 don't know why I was ever concerned that these might fail. Both of them turned 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:44.400 out perfectly. Only problem is that uh it's blue. It's very blue. So, while the 00:07:43.039 --> 00:07:48.000 router makes us a couple more of those parts, I'm going to paint this black. 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:51.440 Unfortunately, Nicholas, who actually knows how to paint things, is way too 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:56.400 busy today. So, I had to do it. Just don't look too closely at it. David, pretty please. A wonderful thing though, 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:59.759 this shop jacket. We're finally releasing it. Holy frig. Come on over 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:05.199 here. So, as you've probably seen in a bunch of our videos, I have absolutely 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:09.840 tortured this poor prototype and uh it's held up very well. We took a lot of 00:08:07.280 --> 00:08:12.879 inspiration from Savage Apron. If you're doing things like grinding, welding, 00:08:11.520 --> 00:08:17.759 that sort of crap, this will keep you nice and safe. Go and grab it. You can 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:19.520 put uh pens here. I was slightly 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:23.520 concerned about the acrylic. It's just kind of a brittle material. So, if we're 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:26.800 getting halfway through the day and it explodes, we're just completely screwed. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:31.840 So, I made this one right here out of wood as well. It is going to block the light coming through the window, but at 00:08:29.599 --> 00:08:35.279 the same time, I know it's not going to explode. Now, we do have a little bit of 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.279 a problem. It got a little bit burned and I'm having trouble cleaning it off. 00:08:36.959 --> 00:08:42.719 Instead of screwing around getting all the charcoal off for a while, I think 00:08:41.839 --> 00:08:48.399 I'm [snorts] just going to give it a little bit of a burn and then it'll look consistent hopefully. All right, I think 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:51.680 it's about time to pack her up and take it all to my house and we can see if 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:54.800 this actually works. What you want to do first, David? In case the computer or 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:59.680 figure out the window? Figure out the window. Figure out the window. Yeah, I was thinking that, too. All right, let's do 00:08:57.920 --> 00:09:04.560 I think the easiest way to go about this is to just remove this whole desk. It's 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:09.760 going to be a pain. Thank you. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:13.680 Nice. You could also just go kind of over. 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:16.640 Yeah. Over. Now, I did do the math. It 00:09:13.680 --> 00:09:22.720 should take only about 2 and 1/2 minutes to heat that room up by 5° using my 00:09:19.839 --> 00:09:27.120 computer. IRL, there's so many more factors like how warm your walls are. 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:31.040 They're going to suck in a bunch of heat. How much heat's coming in or 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:34.560 leaving through your Windows. like how where the sun is is going to make a huge 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:41.440 difference depending on if it's coming in through the window. So calculating is a bit difficult. We did run a test 00:09:38.640 --> 00:09:46.800 though in 45 minutes that room increased in temperature by 3° which is a lot when 00:09:44.880 --> 00:09:52.480 you think about it. Difference between 25 and 28° is the difference between me 00:09:50.640 --> 00:09:57.120 personally being comfortable and not. Not to mention that typically we'll have 00:09:55.360 --> 00:10:01.600 a gaming session that lasts for longer than 45 minutes. And you can see why it 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:05.281 ends up pretty unpleasant after a little while. 00:10:03.261 --> 00:10:05.281 [snorts] 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:12.880 Ended up getting great. Yes. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:17.680 Oh yeah. The best parts Trey. 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:21.680 In hindsight, this is a bit overkill. eight quarter20 bolts like these, 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:25.519 especially high strength ones. Probably good for most deep sea pressure vessels. 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.160 Uh, definitely going to hold this together, though. I don't know if this 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:34.640 is going to work. The curve of the laser was a little bit too much, and it means 00:10:32.560 --> 00:10:39.200 that some of our holes aren't quite large enough. Now, I did try drilling it 00:10:36.800 --> 00:10:44.880 out, but it's it's just going to blow it right up. Like, 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:48.160 also tried the deburring tool. It's not working. I think we need to swap for the 00:10:46.560 --> 00:10:52.000 wood. We're going to want to protect it a little bit. Just got some simple 00:10:49.760 --> 00:10:55.920 mineral oil here. It's not perfect for this situation, but it's way better than 00:10:53.600 --> 00:11:00.399 nothing. Okay, this is working. I do think I will 00:10:57.680 --> 00:11:06.320 swap to the acrylic later because uh this side plus a grow tent neighbors 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:09.040 might not be too happy. Oh, pretty 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:13.120 please. Oh, we did it. [laughter] Ha. Where did my 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:17.680 hammer go? You got [music] fist, bro. 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:22.399 Oh, he's taking me out of 105 for just a little bit. It's suddenly William Osman 00:11:20.079 --> 00:11:29.360 vibes all over the place. I haven't I fix the kit and multiple sets of hex 00:11:24.880 --> 00:11:31.839 keys. Guess which size I don't have. 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:35.920 Oh yeah, this is really solid. I'll put the CAD files down below. So, if you 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:41.200 guys want to, you know, do something like this with your casement Windows, you can. To move the air from our grow 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:46.240 tent out the window, we are going to be using this Rock 6-in fan. 00:11:45.443 --> 00:11:51.600 [laughter] Does that show it off at all, David? Okay, perfect. The good news is also it 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:55.560 has a low setting if you don't want to have it be quite that loud. 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:03.760 Oops. Where do you think we want this fan, David? Maybe just down here on the 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:08.600 floor. That seems like [music] a not too bad spot. Okay, cool. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:14.160 Fiberglass [music] desk. Don't breathe this. 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:18.880 One thing that's very unfortunate about this is that the uh tent is pretty 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.399 freaking big. So, this monitor, I feel like it's just going to have to go. 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:27.440 Funny story, by the way. I got this as an upgrade for my uh main monitor. It is 00:12:24.959 --> 00:12:31.680 in every single way a better monitor, except the OSD is so bad that I don't 00:12:29.839 --> 00:12:36.720 use it. Okay, what's the best way to do this? I guess if we go like that, all 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:41.040 the cords can come up in over there, and this goes out this way. Oh, I really 00:12:39.040 --> 00:12:44.160 wish they had a smaller one. Yeah, I guess it's going to have to be how it 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:48.560 goes. Yeah, there's all the cords. I was 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:52.399 excited for like a little bit there when I was like, "Oh, this is probably 00:12:49.760 --> 00:12:55.040 actually going to work." No, I'm not. What do you think? Out the side or out 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:59.560 the top? He goes out the top, right? Yeah, out the top. 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:08.920 This is one of those rare times that duct tape is actually getting used for 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:08.920 its intended purpose. 00:13:10.959 --> 00:13:16.079 I washed a bunch of Red Green last night. Can you tell? 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:20.800 Should we dry run it? See how she goes? Heck yeah. 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:24.800 That was kind of underwhelming if I'm honest. Like, it is working really well. 00:13:22.800 --> 00:13:30.000 It's sucking lots of air. This isn't the best zipper in the world. Might have to 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:35.360 crack this. Seems to work though. Way quieter than I expected. 00:13:33.040 --> 00:13:40.000 There's so much air flow coming in under this door. All right, let's put a PC in 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:44.959 there. Plugging in peripherals is not the easiest. Um, 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:51.839 have to remember to turn on the PC before we uh close her up. There we go. 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:55.760 All of our air is going to be int right beside where our computer is bringing in 00:13:53.839 --> 00:14:02.560 air and then hopefully all of it just gets yeetated out. 00:13:58.800 --> 00:14:04.320 Oh, this isn't great. 00:14:02.560 --> 00:14:10.320 It's a bit intrusive. It's a You mean I can't even see it? Uh, maybe up on the desk. That's good. 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:16.240 I'm sure the MS will really like that this is her uh office space. Now, in 00:14:13.199 --> 00:14:18.800 fairness, the MS does way more work here 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:22.720 than I ever do at mine. So, this will probably get way more use now. I think 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:26.800 we've done it. Let's turn it on. Barely can hear it. Bar. Okay, I can I can hear 00:14:24.800 --> 00:14:30.480 it. [laughter] The temperature of this room has started dropping. It's just 00:14:28.959 --> 00:14:39.920 pulling in air from the rest of the apartment that is a little bit cooler right now. Moment of truth. Oh, Prime 95 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:42.800 Vermark. It's currently 26.6 degrees in 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:50.000 here. So if it's what 30.6 when we come back, we failed. In the last 45 minutes, 00:14:46.079 --> 00:14:51.839 we have dropped 4° in this room. 3 right 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:58.720 now, actually. So it does look like our CPU got 3° hotter than original run. But 00:14:55.839 --> 00:15:02.800 that said, if we just simply played games for another 45 minutes with it 00:15:00.880 --> 00:15:06.560 before, the ambient air would be hotter, the CPU would be hotter. You know, the 00:15:04.560 --> 00:15:11.360 speeds are exactly the same. It got a tiny bit hotter in here, but this room 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:16.399 is absolute night and day. And what's extra impressive, by this time, 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:21.600 normally, even without a computer on, this room is getting pretty hot. And now 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:25.199 it it's so cold. This was a huge win, David. Yeah, I I love it. Grow tent. 00:15:23.680 --> 00:15:29.519 Stick your PC in one in the summer. Works great. Just like this sponsor. 00:15:27.040 --> 00:15:33.920 Like this video. Maybe check out uh my Intel Extreme upgrade. bit more of an 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:37.040 overhaul than we had today, but I'm still impressed with our results