WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.360 When I first saw the Umbrella Arcade's wall-mounted arcade machine, I had to have it. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:10.480 I mean, there's this sleek design. There's the fact that you've got any retro game you could want at your fingertips. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:20.400 The fact it doesn't take up any floor space. But the price, 4,400 US dollars, 1,800 for the shell, it's some bent sheet metal. 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:28.640 Yeah, how is this thing so expensive? I feel like anyone with some spare time and some tools could probably make one themselves. 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:31.440 I've got some tools in some spare time, or paid time? 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:38.320 Okay, fine. But here's the deal. You can't use any exotic tools. 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.640 Basically, if you couldn't borrow it from your boomer neighbor, you're not allowed to use it. 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:48.320 And you have to include an hourly wage in your cost, because your time isn't free. 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.760 Okay, but if I pull it off, it gets to live on the windset for a month. 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:59.040 What? You heard me? Okay, but the weird handshake. Deal. 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:00.720 Like this deal we made with our sponsor. 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:15.680 I want to take on Umbrella's high-end model. They're using a Nook-style computer with a Ryzen 7. 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:21.680 We can easily match or beat that. Construction-wise, it's just a bunch of sheet metal with holes punched in and bent in shape. 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:25.040 All we got to do is throw in a monitor, speakers, controls, 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:31.600 and I guess figure out how to hang it on the wall, and we're good to go. Well, I'd love to just do this whole thing out of wood in like a couple hours and call it a day, 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:37.840 but that's not really the point of the series. We're trying to remake this thing we found as close as we can to the original style, 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.000 and, you know, learn some new things as we go. You can't use any exotic tools. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:46.720 Because I don't have a welder, though, joining all the metal together is not going to be that easy. 00:01:46.720 --> 00:01:49.920 So I think we're still going to have to use some wood, like here on the side panels, 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.480 and then we'll screw the rest of the metal into that wood. 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.240 The control panel electronic, we can just get online. 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:01.040 I'll order them, they'll show up later. Actually, mounting them is going to be a little tricky because we can't use the laser cutter. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:07.200 I'm thinking we'll have to use, they're a whole saw or maybe we've got a big enough step bit, something like that. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:11.680 We'll see when we get to it. The thing we can't get around is we're going to have to bend metal, 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:18.080 but I've got just the thing for that. The rules say I can buy one special tool as long as it's within reach of you guys following along at home. 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.560 This is a sheet metal break, and you can get it at places like Harbor Freight. 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.320 It's not cheap by any means, but it's not expensive compared to our $4,400 arcade machine, 00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:31.680 and once we're done with it, we can throw it on Marketplace and get some of our money back. 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:33.840 Let's go check out the metal we're actually going to be working with. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:41.520 This is 18 gauge steel. It's two foot by four foot, and that's actually going to impact our design choices a little bit. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:45.920 Let me explain. Two feet is going to be too narrow for two players to stand at, 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:49.280 but the four foot width of our metal is definitely too wide. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.560 I think we're going to hit somewhere around 30 inches, and we'll do some cutting. 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:56.000 I think our best bet is to make our wooden sides and frame first, 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:00.240 and then we'll adjust the metal to fit that. I'm going to recruit Justin to help for a little while here. 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:01.680 He's better with the metal work than me too. 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:13.920 We've cut our MDF down to a more manageable size, and now I'm going to start drawing the silhouette down on the wood so we know where to cut. 00:03:13.920 --> 00:03:21.520 I'm doing a little bit of designing on the go here, because I don't want to have any lengths that are greater than 24 inches, 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.640 because of the size of our metal panels. This is a bevel gauge. 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:28.240 I'm using it to copy the angles from my drawing onto the wood. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:34.240 This one's pretty ancient, but you can still get these in literally any hardware shop for like 10, 20 bucks. 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:39.120 I think you can see this starting to take shape now. The monitor will be up here. 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.520 Controls are going to be here with lots of room under here for wiring. 00:03:42.320 --> 00:03:46.560 I think under here I want to leave room for a drawer, so we can put in our keyboard and mouse, 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.040 and maybe a couple of wireless playstation controls or something like that. Draw a little line down to the bottom here. 00:03:51.040 --> 00:03:53.840 It's not too long for our sheet metal, and we can start cutting. 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.600 The two layers of MDF is a little bit much for this little jigsaw, 00:04:01.600 --> 00:04:04.880 but I'd rather get both pieces cut the same way at the same time, 00:04:04.880 --> 00:04:10.880 rather than trying to make it even later. I'm cutting a little bit outside the lines here, 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:14.000 because I can fold it up later on with a router bit and get perfectly smooth. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.640 What are you doing? Linus said we could use the bandsaw. Oh yeah. 00:04:17.200 --> 00:04:21.280 Why am I doing this? The bandsaw does a lot of the same job as the jigsaw, 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:24.640 just a lot more efficiently, and every boomer has a bandsaw anyway. 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:29.680 Okay, I think you can see the basic shape we're going for here. 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:33.520 All we need to do now is clean it up a little bit, and then we can start working on the metal. 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:38.960 We've got a flush trim bit in our router here, and this will basically ride along this bearing 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:41.680 on this hunk of plywood to attach to this straight edge, 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.640 and it'll make this edge perfectly smooth. 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:48.960 Here we have our two sides. We'll have a little bit more cleanup later on, 00:04:48.960 --> 00:04:55.040 but don't worry about that right now. The last thing we'll end up doing is a slot right along the edge here, 00:04:55.040 --> 00:05:00.480 and that'll be for some molding later on to clean everything up at the end. I'm just marking about a half an inch in from the edge, 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:05.040 and that's where our metal is going to end up in the end. We could cut our metal with these tin snips, 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.440 but 18 gauge is a little bit thick for that, and while we were picking up our sheet metal break, 00:05:09.440 --> 00:05:12.800 we happened to see these air nippers on sale for about 30 bucks Canadian, 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.760 so we're going to go with that. It's going to be way easier. Our goal is to have 30 inches wide, 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:21.920 but we're going to add on an inch on either side of that to have little tabs. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:25.440 On each of the, I guess we'll call them side edges of our metal, 00:05:26.080 --> 00:05:30.000 we're going to have, I think, three tabs that we'll bend over, 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:32.240 and they'll screw into our wood panels. 00:05:33.760 --> 00:05:38.480 We're just kind of figuring out exactly where to lay them out, and then we'll get cutting again. 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:42.160 I don't remember what this is called, but we're going to use this to bend our tabs, 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.200 so we're basically going to just measure in a couple inches from the end, 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.240 put our clamp in place, and then mark on either side of it. 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:09.360 Right now, this is still pretty floppy. 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:13.680 We're going to fold over an edge on each side, and that's going to give us a lot more rigidity. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.680 There. 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:30.880 So our next one, I think we can do this whole piece as one, right? Yeah, let's just do the piece. 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:38.960 A little more if it's possible, I don't know if it is. 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.800 Yeah, that's good. This is T-molding. It'll go around all the edges here once we're done. 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.680 I'm just making sure I've got this relatively lined up. 00:06:51.200 --> 00:06:59.040 Oh, that's perfect. I'm just assembling the side panels with some MDF bracing. 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.840 This is also 30 inches across, so it'll be the same as our panels when we're done with them, 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:09.120 and this will give us a little bit more rigidity in the back without having to do a bunch more metal. 00:07:10.320 --> 00:07:12.800 Sorry. He's not sorry. 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:21.520 I've got the panel for the monitor here. Let's see if it fits. 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:26.160 Good work, Justin. We're at the end of day one, 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.200 so let's kind of check in where we are here. Our MDF sides, those are good. 00:07:31.200 --> 00:07:34.480 Happy with that. Metal panels. 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:38.720 The one for the monitor is mostly here. We got to cut a hole in it, but that's easy enough. 00:07:39.280 --> 00:07:43.280 The control panel, Justin's got that. About three quarters of the way done, I would say, 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:47.680 for the mounting. So, I mean, we're going to cross those off. 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.520 Just going to have to cross something off. Tomorrow, we've got to build a drawer 00:07:51.520 --> 00:07:54.720 to go underneath the control panel. That's for our keyboard and mouse and everything. 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:58.880 And then we'll deal with a plate underneath that, 00:07:58.880 --> 00:08:01.920 and we'll check in with pancrats for a PC, figure out all our electronics, 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:07.200 and eventually we'll show this thing to Linus. It's day two, and while we're waiting for Justin to get here, 00:08:07.200 --> 00:08:10.240 we're just going to put some screws into the wood frame 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.840 to beef it up a little bit. It's important to pre-drill the holes so we don't split the wood, 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:18.000 and we're also using a bit of a countersink here so the screws will end up below the surface of the wood. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.760 That way we can maybe put on some fill afterwards to make it nice and smooth. 00:08:25.440 --> 00:08:29.280 Justin's using this map gas torch. You'll find this in the plumbing section of any Home Depot. 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:34.000 He's heating up the metal and bending over our tap. I'm going to attach it onto the living frame. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.760 I'm going to use this one by six to build a French cleat mounting system. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:45.360 How this works is we stick this up against the wall, and then the arcade machine will just hang right off of it. 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.760 And because we cut it at the same time, it's a perfect alignment. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.800 Do something like that. I got these templates from a site called slagcoin.com. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:03.520 We've got a bunch of different options. This is kind of a generic version 00:09:03.520 --> 00:09:08.320 of a typical Japanese arcade machine, and I find this to be pretty comfortable for my own use, 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.640 so that's what we're going to go with. So now I'm just going to cut some holes. 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:17.760 First things first, we're going to drill some pilot holes, so that way we can use our step drill bit here, 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.960 which will allow us to drill the holes for our kitchen. 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.160 What we do is just hold it in place where we want it. 00:09:30.160 --> 00:09:33.200 We're going to temporarily install our first couple of panels here. 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:36.000 We think that's going to make it a little easier to drill our control panel out. 00:09:36.560 --> 00:09:40.160 A little tough to get to our screws from the top, so we flip this up on its side, 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:46.400 and it's still a little awkward as you can see here, a little snug, but with an extension and a bit of patience, 00:09:46.400 --> 00:09:47.200 it's going in okay. 00:09:54.400 --> 00:09:58.160 Okay, so this, I'm thinking, is the kick plate to the bottom, 00:09:59.040 --> 00:10:02.800 and the drawer will figure out to fit in the middle. With our last piece or else, 00:10:02.800 --> 00:10:05.360 even this little scrap, maybe we'll see a little more. 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:08.640 Under 90, but like probably 75. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:18.400 We grabbed this old ASUS ProArt monitor from Logistics. 00:10:18.400 --> 00:10:22.640 It's not in great shape, but it'll do 1440 at 60 Hertz, which is really all we need to do, 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:26.080 and I can find it for about 100 bucks on eBay, which is a good bonus. 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:30.640 I'm thinking we put in a shelf to hold the monitor, something like that, 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:34.720 and then we can just use the two ball joints in the monitor ARM 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:37.200 to position the monitors fit our hole. 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:42.960 Our monitor fits quite nicely in here. 00:10:43.920 --> 00:10:46.400 Up you go there. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.520 Up there, and then flip it up onto the floor again. 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:55.760 We're doing good. Now what? Drawer, yeah. 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.920 This piece here will be our front panel for the drawer. 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:06.240 These are the sides, and this is the back, meaning that we need to get rid of this big chunk here, 00:11:07.040 --> 00:11:09.920 here, this hole by here. 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:19.520 So in terms of physical construction, 00:11:19.520 --> 00:11:23.680 probably 90% of the way there, we have to do the electronics. That's going to be just a bunch of wiring, 00:11:23.680 --> 00:11:28.560 but it's pretty much Lego. The PC, we actually had two options delivered earlier today, 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:31.840 but we haven't had a chance to look at them yet. Turn everything on, see if we can play some games 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.840 and show it to Linus. And you know, maybe paint it and make it look a little bit less ugly. 00:11:36.560 --> 00:11:40.800 We bought two packs of these San Juan 30-mil buttons. They're the same ones that are being used 00:11:40.800 --> 00:11:54.000 by the umbrella arcades machine. You may have noticed this is upside down right now, 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.560 but there's a good reason for that is we're about to drill out for the joysticks. 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:02.560 Before we get to that, I just want to show you the drawer slides you put in here on either side. 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:08.080 And our metal drawer is just going to ride along those. And inside there, we can put our PC and our keyboard 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.840 and extra controllers, all that kind of fun stuff. So it's easy to access. 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.000 Don't have to pull off any panels or anything to do any changes. These are San Juan joysticks as well. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:22.480 They came along with our buttons as a set. And we just need four bolts to hold them into our control panel. 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:29.840 We're still waiting for the proper bolts to arrive. Those will have no cut in the tops, they'll be nice and smooth. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:34.560 But for now, these will work fine. Each of our joystick kits pairs with one of these little control ports. 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:40.240 Basically, it's just a little USB controller. We plug our wire into one end 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.520 and the other end goes to each one of the buttons. 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.360 I think it looks like a arcade machine. Let's see if it works. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.840 Yeah, that happened. We're using our magnetic cable management essential solution, 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:07.120 lttstore.com, to connect our control boards right onto our metal housing. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.920 Conveniently magnetic. Obviously, we're going to need a computer to run this thing. 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:15.360 So we had David give us a couple of options. Oh, not that David. 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:19.840 This is David Pankratz. He's our new technical production assistant, something like that. 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:23.520 Yeah, that's the one. Perfect. What do you got for us? I've got two options here. 00:13:24.400 --> 00:13:28.160 We've got the Raspberry Pi 5 and this has a hat on it. 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:32.560 So you can stick an NVMe drive in there. Beautiful. We've got a four terabyte drive in here right now, 00:13:32.560 --> 00:13:37.680 which is a bit overkill. You could drop that down to a two terabyte and save about a hundred bucks. 00:13:37.680 --> 00:13:41.120 But this package, as it is, is about $375. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:47.280 That's not too bad. Okay. If you want a little bit more power, we've got the Minisforum UM970 Pro. 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:52.080 This one has a two terabyte drive in it right now and 16 gigs of RAM. 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.640 And this package would end up costing you about $525. 00:13:56.640 --> 00:13:58.800 Okay, that's not too bad either, actually. I'm kind of surprised. 00:13:59.680 --> 00:14:07.040 How much time would it take you to set them up? Honestly, it was a lot more difficult downloading the image off of the site in terms of time. 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:11.280 Once you've got the image off the site, it was as easy as using etcher to image the drives over. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.000 And then you were pretty much good to go. Perfect. Thank you very much for your help. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:19.840 Yeah, not a problem. All right. I'm only going to pay for one of these, by the way. 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:25.360 I guess we kicked out Pancrats a little early. We needed his help to get everything running again here, but now we're looking great. 00:14:25.920 --> 00:14:31.360 Obviously, we need some spit and polish to get on the machine, but I think we're going to do that as a bit of a montage for you guys. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.680 And next time you see this, Linus will be evaluating it. 00:14:37.040 --> 00:14:55.360 All right. 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.400 Here's what we did. Damn. 00:14:59.040 --> 00:15:02.880 You like it? Way more than I expected to. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.720 I think so. Don't take that the wrong way. 00:15:07.280 --> 00:15:12.160 Don't take that the wrong way. We used magnetic cable management for our handles. 00:15:13.520 --> 00:15:16.800 Are they attached or are they just? No, they're just magnets. They're just magnets. 00:15:16.800 --> 00:15:20.240 Wow. Everything magnet. What? I don't get it. 00:15:20.880 --> 00:15:23.840 It's a reference. Except for the parts that are computer. 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.840 Um, is that blood? No, that's paint. 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.760 Cool. Okay. Here's your coins. First player, second player. 00:15:33.760 --> 00:15:38.080 Ooh. Your starts. Are those just the monitors built in speakers? 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.000 No, those speakers in the back of the logitech. 00:15:42.400 --> 00:15:46.960 I actually kind of like how they sound. They're an appropriate level of shit. 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:52.160 Yeah. Yeah. Cause there's no grills. So they've got kind of like a boomy crappy sound to them. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:58.320 But it's very arcadey. Well, this is great for just quickly navigating. 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:02.640 So, uh, how do we go to the, Oh, this is a nice interface. 00:16:02.640 --> 00:16:06.400 This is just a different skin on the same front end though, right? It's still, it's still about a serve, 00:16:06.400 --> 00:16:08.160 but it's like their default interface. 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.400 Oh, balls. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.760 Look, it's hard. It is designed to steal my quarters. 00:16:17.760 --> 00:16:21.200 I gotta say, in terms of the actual user experience, 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:27.200 now that it is complete, because obviously it was a little bit more work to build, 00:16:28.400 --> 00:16:31.440 this does not feel meaningfully that different. 00:16:31.520 --> 00:16:35.040 Do I get to guess what the budget was? What did you guys pay yourselves per hour? 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:38.480 30 bucks a US an hour. 30 US dollars an hour. 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.960 I think you were still able to beat them by just over a thousand US dollars. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.520 All right. I think you guys are probably around 3300 to 3400 US. 00:16:47.520 --> 00:16:51.360 Oh, you're way over. Really? How long did this take to build? 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.320 This took 22, 29 hours. 00:16:54.880 --> 00:16:58.160 Really? Of actual labor. That's pretty good. 00:16:58.160 --> 00:17:01.840 A couple of weekends, basically. Did that include all of the software configuration? 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:03.840 Yes. Because they've got more games on theirs than we have. 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:10.400 I have a full name to it on there, sir. Our total was $24.44 and $0.59. 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:13.440 So we beat it by two grand. Pretty much. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.280 Wow. I see that two different ways. Okay. 00:17:17.280 --> 00:17:22.960 I see that as, wow, we could build something that is functionally very similar for half the price 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:28.400 and have the fun of learning how to do it for ourselves while paying ourselves $30 an hour to do it, 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:35.040 but I also see it as, okay, so basically we're paying them two grand to figure everything out for us. 00:17:35.040 --> 00:17:38.720 Pretty much. And for whatever level of support they're going to give you. 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.480 So the only question that remains then is buy or DIY. 00:17:43.120 --> 00:17:47.600 And you're the only ones who can answer this for us. Which would you rather have? 00:17:47.600 --> 00:17:53.520 This for 2500 US dollars or this for 4400 US dollars? 00:17:53.520 --> 00:17:57.040 Well, go. Leave a comment. And while you're down there, 00:17:57.040 --> 00:18:03.040 be sure to check out our sponsor. If you guys enjoyed this video, why not go check out the ShortCircuit video that we did 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:09.440 on the Umbrella Arcade. We found some really good things about it and we found some not so good things. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:14.560 For what they're charging, they could have included better controllers like Jordan did in his build.