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none of the cool stuff we're doing happens without the people so our tour begins in desk land the lab is already
up to nine people and we've got room for up to a dozen more in spite of the fact
that it has generated no Revenue
whatsoever but who needs Revenue when you've got cool stuff like this you've
already met our keyboard testing robot cave but cave has got a mustache I mean
3D laser profiler with this add-on cave canot not only find the exact location
of every key on the keyboard in order to uh this actuation testing but he can
handle whoop keyboards in all kinds of different sizes and
shapes Jake Dan will show us so this is that keyboard over there yeah that's
right this is the drop control and this is the 3D Point Cloud that we generate
with the laser profiler so cool so we've got exact height data for every part of
this keyboard which allows us theoretically then to nail dead center
every single Key Well it's not just the height Data before we had the camera
system and that has lens Distortion which meant on the edges of the keyboard
we were a little out on either side with this we actually do a sweep across the
entire keyboard on a single axis so we have exact positional data it's not just
the height it's also the X and Y position cool I know you guys are eager
for us to start publishing and it must feel like we're just not doing anything
over here but that's not the case at all it's just way more important for us to
find these edge cases where we might be out a little bit pun intended ah
haa uh then for us to just start dumping data out into the world for another
example of the importance of professionalism here is our totally
legit IP testing chamber column don't
make that face this was your idea I did not tape is not my idea oh well I mean
he didn't have a way for me to lower the phone in so I had to improvise yet but
the point is that this is how we are
going to test manufacturer claims about the waterproofness of their phone I
don't know if this one is actually ip68 rated you just dropped it 6 feet oh well
maybe pull it back up we should bring how about 3et yeah 3et should be good
yeah cool uh anywh who can you explain
why we did this instead of like the fancy professional one well if we got a
custom tank made effectively what we need is 6 ft of depth right because
pressure is all about the height of the water column above the device sure it would have been $4,500 5 grand or $800
this novelty children's light from AliExpress it's not from AliExpress it's
from Amazon it's actually from a very reputable company in the UK uh it's a
children's sensory toy what do you think are the odds thing still works um it
depends on the IP rating and whether or not Google's being truthful which is I
guess what we're going to find out yeah I don't even know oh yeah it still turns
on it still works I mean that doesn't mean it will still work uh a little bit
of distilled water is not going to immediately kill it still oh what's the
plan then we put moisture sensors inside the phone and then we put it in and we
monitor it it's a semi-destructive test manufacturers claim that you can
submerge your device for x amount of time at a certain depth we're testing
that pass fail and if it it's pass fail they're lying then i' get to buy another
phone or or
more okay it's not my money did I
mention there's no Revenue yet the space in between the rows of test benches is a
bit of a long story there's going to be the shelves here which is pretty much an
inbox for these folks everything that is to be tested and then the actual width
of this space was a miscommunication because they thought we needed a bunch
of space for lighting in between but I actually want the lab to be all about
testing testing testing so we're probably going to either shove this one in or shove that one over this way to
make room for more people meanwhile hi
Nick here is sitting in desktop component testing land and he's working
on something uh oh that we cannot talk
about yet but I'm sure is really cool
very cool very cool Nick works on our internal benchmarking software called
mark bench and it has evolved a lot since the last time you guys got a look
at it what can it do now more games yep
we uh we have some more games that we can cover that's a lot of games correct
uh we can do not games most of the improvements are
actually in our data visualization and prototyping of data analysis in the back
end so there's not too much to show on the screen but you guys have complained
about our graphs many many many times over the years
and one of Nick's top priorities for the first couple of quarters this year is to
help the rest of the team figure out how to make that whole process a more
automated and B easier for you guys to read can I ask about this uh yeah that's
Gary's assignment while we wait for benchmarks to complete he says coloring
inside the lines creates discipline Well I obviously don't have any crap here at
the end of desktop testing land is going to be our new RF chamber which as it
turns out is not going to use any of the components from the original blue
chamber at all so that is all just going
to be stuffed into the walls of our acoustic chamber I think right that's
the point and that's that's it so we're essentially going to shred it but that's
fine because we have a brand new RF chamber that is worth somewhere on the
order of $200,000 oh no that's just the foam what
that's just the foam oh yeah no it's it's about a half
mil cool um the foam is from TDK who I
really only knew as like maker of blank DVDs but apparently they do a lot of
other stuff cost aside my understanding is that the new chamber is like way
better than the old one cuz this is better foam or something yeah so the
frequencies that this is attenuated to is much wider than the old foam it's
brand new it's you know it's not in a
heap of garbage uh so yeah the way that
this is going to work is we're actually going to have to have walkway panel
because this is going to coat the floor ceiling and walls so it's going to be
fully anaco uh within the RF spectrum that we're testing so uh Raymond EMC
they're uh they're a Canadian company they're they've been awesome uh they're
working with us on this uh we should hopefully have it built by May okay and
yeah they're uh they've been great to work with shout out Raymond DMC actually
everyone who's helped us get the lab set up has been so enthusiastic just about
their being this testing for consumers it's been kind of whatever the opposite
of disheartening is it's been heartening hardening yeah it's been it's been
heartening to see how many people just want there to be independent testing for
consumers that doesn't mean all this crappy blue foam is going to be wasted
though the space that I'm standing in right now is going to be our audio
isolation chamber where we'll be able to get accurate acoustic measurements of
everything from graphics cards to laptops to freaking I don't know we
could do an air conditioner if we really wanted to I guess right yeah we could
basically anything and to beef up its design we're going to be using a dual
shell construction so we're going to have Obviously good acoustic foam on the
inside but in between the walls we need some kind of filler and that's where you
come in loser then next to the audio
isolation room we're going to have what about second audio isolation room this
is going to be a home theater so while we could use that chamber to test things
like headphones and small consumer electronics if we want to test something
big like Tower speakers you need not only a properly isolated room but a
large enough room that it will be an accurate representation of the kind of space that that product is intended to
be used in this room will also be lighting controlled so we can test
everything from projectors to TVs to I
mean I guess we could do monitors in here in a pinch yep would we just do
monitors in here all the time probably okay probably everything I've talked
about so far is scheduled to be done either this quarter or in the next but
as we move into the second half of the Year we're obviously going to keep building and I standing now in what is
going to be our camera testing room this is going to be a super cool space we
don't need noise isolation here but we absolutely need lighting control and
we're going to have all kinds of everything from test patterns to
interesting things that move around to uh camera Shake simulating Rigs and all
kinds of neat stuff but that's going to take some time as you can tell there's
clearly still a lot more to sort out in the move like this guy needs to be
unpacked this is our metal 3D printer and I have to confess I actually don't
know a ton about how these work that's
exciting that's why Tim's here we're going to learn uh we can't actually show
you a whole lot of it because a lot of it is Trade Secrets and we have an
agreement with ridia that we can't show that however we can talk about how it
works so this thing is going to take some really cool compressed metal
particulate and it's going to heat it up and it's going to lay it in lines just
like you would a normal 3D printer sure and it's going to just kind of halfway
solidify it's going to harden a little bit and then we take that part and we
put it in this guy the centering oven and this evacuates all of the air and it
adds a whole bunch of argon gas and then it basically pulls a vacuum so that the
uh the heat the energy uh that the oven
creates is not wasted it's uh at a much lower pressure it can get much hotter
for the same amount of energy okay and I
guess that uh that energy consumption is why we have this sitting next to the
electrical panel here basically this is a temporary home while we renovate the
workshop over at the other unit we have a project coming up soon uh the all
metal PC uh Alex and I are really stoked to see what this thing can do to try and
make things like fan blades and and all sorts of water cooling equipment out of
metal but stuff that we've designed this is nuts that is nuts yeah how does this
handle overlays is it going to be like a standard 3D printer where you have to
make supports or is it going to be like an SLS where you could just have a cavity inside aart if you want and you
just like wash it away or so that's really interesting because of the fact that we're printing with metal you can't
just take a set of pliers and like pull away at the supports after it's been
through the center uh the fact is that we would have to actually cut those
through with a drill or with a machine of some other sort so what you want to
do is design your part in a different way there's a there's a different set of
processes that you need to go through for checks and balances to make sure
that you are not creating something that you can't use it needs a name we need a
name what are we going to name it uh um um Ash he's the champion okay we also
fire or I guess that should be Ash then that's Ash and Ketchum Ash and Ketchum I
don't know sure I'm not good at
this now I'm standing in what is apparently the lounge where people
lounge and have meetings um I asked hey
is this temporary because a bunch of couches in the middle of the warehouse
doesn't really seem like the most efficient use of space and I was told no
in fact this is permanent and they don't care that every square foot of this cost
something thing to the tune of about $610 Canadian dollars thankfully the
usefulness per unit squared of other areas will be a little bit higher I'm
standing in what's going to become an LTT filming set of some sort so that we
don't have to truck everything over from the lab to the studio in order to make
videos we're in a hurry and then over here is our power supply tester which
you've met before but is now finally actually wired up so chroma can come and
train us on it and an environmental chamber which will do both temperature
control and humidity control so being
next to the power supply tester you guys can probably imagine that we were going
to test power supplies in it but we could use it for just about anything
like say for example if you wanted to know how the battery life of a phone
changes depending on the environment that it's in this is exactly what you'd
use or well what will be there right now it's just a broom and a squeegee and
some hoses you might have noticed our oscilloscope is still missing but I
assure you we've ordered one now finally and we've spoken with Johnny of Corsair
formerly of Johnny Guru about the best methodologies for testing the newest
power supplies and you can expect a really solid update on this in the near
future here we'll have camera supplies and long-term storage which wait storage
yeah what's the deal with all the storage at this place I thought this is supposed to be a lab well in talking to
the logistics team we determined that if the lab is going to have the vast
majority of the in andout for products
if they're not here it is going to be a gigantic hassle so we decided to move
our entire Logistics department and all of our storage here to the lab to make
things simpler to give you some idea what I'm talking about this is all the
keyboards that Antoine has checked out right now for testing thanks a lot
Antoine you're welcome and this is a
fraction of what we're going to be going through as new products continue to be
released so these shelves are for the lab and then this is all our own
internal inventory which is currently being organized by the one and only
Jamie row number one is going to be peripheral land then so you got your
keyboards mice headphones headsets all
that good stuff then as we round this corner the veneer of organization Falls
away to reveal complete and utter chaos
uh we have some moving Vlogs actually up on Floatplane.com they're exclusive
over there if you guys want to check them out we'll have that Linked In the video description but for now hey let's
talk to the one and only Dan what the devil are you working on and why is it
important you're not testing that motherboard are you wait what is this so
XL was running a little bit slow so I thought I'd build myself a oh shut up
this is like a dual socket workstation thing what is it actually called Xenon
gold this is part of our new wo 100% uptime system so serve a grade uh no
downtime ever again uh Ultra stable raid
one on some uh ssds A4000 for the video
card cuz I need the video memory little bit overp we'll see if how this performs
maybe it's Overkill I don't know Dan space is one part diagnostic workstation
one part cinematic workstation how the devil did you end up with that monitor
it's the only one we had I used to use a single 1080p Monitor and one part
Electronics rework station anytime that something goes terribly terribly wrong
it ends up on this desk and then either goes back to the manufacturer or Dan
attempts to fix it after which it gets sent to East no I mean if he fails it
goes to ew sometimes he wins this is pretty phenomenal too these
bamboo Labs printers are amazing two of
them are just hooked up to like gigantic spools and they're for printing things
in bulk like all the self- congratulatory trophies that Dan is
apparently making with my filament and this middle one is hooked up to four of
these multifilament spool units here so it can actually print in 16 different
materials and the whole thing gets changed over automatically and they are
all accessible over the network even cooler than you think these three over
here are just kind of standard filaments this one here actually has three spools
of carbon fiber reinforced PA which is super strong and basically
indestructible and then this one here is a washable support material so you have
supports and then you dunk it underwater and it all melts away this aisle is
going to be for PC DIY this aisle is going to be for systems and consumer
electronics and then the aisle over there is going to be for bulky stuff
like TVs along the bottom and then anything that we put into our
standardized workstations uh so any inventory we keep for like cases and
stuff like that is just going to be all piled up there you're probably wondering
why we don't have another shelf above that and the answer is very simple
that's as high as we're allowed to go with the sprinkler system in this building unless we completely redesign
the sprinkler system which would cost a fortune wait something's happening this
is our receiving Bay and what did we get
it looks like
foam it actually just looks like foam probably 20 grand right there is it what
no shut up there's this can't be expensive foam this is expensive foam yeah what's
inside is expensive you're looking at the expensive protection for the
expensive foam oh this is the protection what is it those are our walkway caps oh
walkway caps so because the foam is on the floor we have to be able to walk on
something so these have been air freed from Japan oh that's where they're
manufactured so this is what we're going to be walking on have the desk set up on
and the uh 4G 5G Network next to the Bay we've got Angus from accounting's
couches that he didn't have anywhere to store but he's definitely going to be taking away very soon and what will go
here is the procurement Department right now they're upstairs completely separate
from Logistics and having those departments together is hopefully going
to smooth out a lot of communication challenges uh you've already met forky
here wow that's solid and then we've also got our own
cherry picker now so we'll be able to take that down the aisles here and grab
things and put them down and all that good stuff up here is we don't know land
maybe stuff that's to be sold but I kind of said Gee if we know we're getting rid
of it should we really be dragging it upstairs only so we can drag it back down and they were like yeah that's a
good point we just don't know what else to put there so cool some plans haven't changed in
here for example is going to be the development team for the lab's website
and then I oh hey Tam is Gary's desk out
there now I don't think Gary has one Gary doesn't have a desk I don't think
it's been approved yet okay the plan here has changed though this is now
going to be a lunchroom SL Lounge which really raises the question of why they
need another Lounge out there but I don't know realistically at some point
we're probably going to end up putting desks in here and you know you know how these things go and then this is going
to be for the Mac Address team which is a team now and not just Jonathan Horst
this is still the server room Jake has been trying to figure out how to deal
with the noise isolation problems that we're having in this room basically we
don't have a solution unless uhoh it looks like you're going to propose something awful um we're going to try to
rebuild the wall if that's even possible
there's no insulation in that wall and it doesn't even go all the way up so if
we have servers running in here the poor social media team who's going to be on
the other side is going to end up with tonitas a little bit less social here's
the room for the aforementioned social team though with that Transformer that
sounds like it's mounted above the ceiling tile I think the server room
might be the least of their concerns in here this is the worst room in the
building Bar None I'm sure if you told
you know the Labs team and procurement and Logistics hey you guys don't have to
work in a warehouse anymore you get to come into this room they'd be like n dog
I'm going to keep my warehouse up here the only real change
is that instead of doing the desks like we painstakingly mapped out on the floor
with masking tape we have completely rejiggered the layout and it's going to
be like L that face each other like for
Linus Tech tips L's actually that's a
t all that's up here right now is some leftover stuff that Labs hasn't moved
down into their workspace yet like you know just casual RTX 390s and 490s
sitting around the the amount of gear in this place it's like gear Heaven this is
going to be my office couple call Rooms Luke's office and that's it oh no it
isn't unfortunately Sam's not here today so I can't give you guys is an exact
rundown of everything you're looking at but the important thing is our head and
torso simulator is oh my God that's heavy okay I'm not going to move it is
finally here so we can actually test headphones now yes you've probably seen
some of those results in our videos recently this is going to be Luke's office and Sam is going to do all his
work in one of the acoustically isolated Chambers and then we've got a brilliant
plan for out here now because of the building code something something
something sorry Andy we can't wall this
in and we can't turn it into office space this is technically warehouse
mezanine but what we can do is we can
get those little meeting pod self-contained things and just plunk a
bunch of them down here and after some rough measurements that we actually did
today cuz that's an idea we came up with while I was here credit to Jake is that
your idea I think so good idea um we think we can get two six-person meeting
rooms and like two more single or dual person meeting rooms now you guys are
probably wondering how on Earth are we doing the networking for all this
massive shout out ubiquity I think we've got a total of four access points in the
office and then another eight out in the warehouse giving us full Wi-Fi 6 GHz so
Wi-Fi 60 coverage absolutely everywhere in this building it is ripping fast
which you guys will have seen in the most recent upgrade video that I did for
the wi-fi at my house we're obviously going to have to do some small Rena here
just make it look kind of decent before we plunk those uh meeting rooms down
maybe put a bunch of foam here maybe some improvements to the lighting oh
shout out eat and too for all the uh like the cable channel that they're
providing for the the warehouse the wiring that we're doing they're giving
us enough of it to go from over here all the way to the end and like out four
times or something like that proper networking install wo I know right crazy
even the outside networking is done properly we've got these UniFi access
reader things techpsy himself Jake always changes my name to stuff it says
the tech tips guy himself and then we've also got their uh what are these UniFi
6lr yeah so these long range access points out here are so we can have great
Wi-Fi in the parking lot no just kidding uh they're because our car chargers
which are there there there and there
can all be controlled so that they can be turned off at a certain time at night
so we don't have people just like rolling into our parking lot in the middle of the night charging their car
on our electricity and then leaving this is a perk for employees and only
employees minused group.com jobs can we take a moment with all the good today to
acknowledge what is terrible about this what were they thinking with this color
scheme you've got brown brown other
Brown and faded brown yeah the fading isn't really doing
it any favors I freaking hate it if you
guys like this video maybe go check out the first video we did right after we
bought it doing a walk through it may look like chaos now but I promise you
it's improved a lot oh