so the inspiration for today's video is twofold one
we wanted to build a pc for luke at his
new job at Floatplane media inc that really reflects the values of that
company which is fly or float
so we obtained this literal actual Floatplane
and then source of inspiration number two was actually a video that i did a
little while ago building a pc inside one of lee and
lee's cases that looks like a boat
the only problem with that case was that when i tried to actually float it
the thing sank and i was like you know what no no no Linus media group can do
better than lee lee Linus media group's airplane pc is actually gonna
freaking fly so i tasked alex here resident engineering
wizard who i never give enough time money or tools to with coming up
with a flyable Floatplane pc and that's exactly what he theoretically
did we're about to find out
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inside my beaver you're gonna find my cockpit and then there's actually two
passenger seats back there so we're gonna rip that out and
throw in it's gotta be at least probably like a
pound worth of heatsink and RAM m.2 SSD
uh i think this is probably a core i7 processor
should be good should be good before installing the computer in it we needed
to assemble and fly the plane this would allow for us to make sure that there
were no issues with the aircraft before we modified it
but also meant that Linus would need to take
off and land without destroying it like it's been years since i've flown a model
airplane at all i have never flown anything this big
and i have never even spent any sim time
with a water plane do you want to um that probably wouldn't be a terrible
idea but let's get it let's get it assembled given this is a ready-to-fly kit
assembly should be a pretty simple case of following the instructions
although it quickly became clear that there were two problems one bad
instructions is this diagram clear to you how exactly
these little wire doodads go in here no it goes across no it goes it goes
straight to the big hole but then i can't tell how you fasten it and two
people not reading those bad instructions you have to go through the
wood on this it's a pain it says remove plate so
probably not oh
very clearly labeled actually all right
landing your wheels on
seems pretty legit
let's see if it'll be able to handle coming down about as hard as it's going to
seems pretty strong i'm ready for insertion whenever you are
i've got i've got three fingers in it now but it just doesn't let me get my
fingers in too okay oh there we go there we go perfect where
what do you mean where shone where's the picture of the velcro
right there where as our lack of both rc
knowledge and building ability became more clear
so did the realization that this plane may not survive its maiden voyage this
is going to be such a waste of money if we just like plow it into the ground
we soldiered on though completing the build and what thanks to the beauty of
video editing was record time maybe we could lube it up a little bit
cool so here you push it in i'll line it up okay
there we go i'm excited we're getting close to uh first flight yeah
before flying though Linus wanted to try his hand in the flight sim to brush up
on his rc skills okay oh
nice that was sketchy that was wow
okay we're coming in we're coming in dennis get the hell out of the way
no no we're not coming in we're not coming in get that propeller going there
no no just wait just wait it's not gonna stop i got that i got this come on baby
come on in wake up
no we lost the wheel we sheared off a a a bolt here
and uh so all we gotta do is is find a new
a new mount for this wheel holy crap we lift through it
oh chapter two before putting the pc in the plane it
needed a good coating of acrylic conformal coating from mg chemicals
this would prevent the pc from getting damaged by small drops of water that
might end up on it during water takeoffs and landings
with that said it doesn't make the pc completely waterproof
this is like not even it's more conformal coating than pcb now it's like
swimming in it i mean you can't swim in a solid but you
get my point i said to do three coats that's three coats look at these they look so
beautiful they're so shiny it's like plastic RAM
and they still smell like nail polish yeah we gotta test it with the system in
it that's what we're doing right now yeah we gotta get the oh wait write test
the system does the system work testing the system gave me the opportunity i've
been waiting for so you can see here my friends the test cart 9000 has a
convenient keyboard and mouse
right in an ergonomic keyboarding mousing location
it's got a HDMI and vga monitor so you
cover all your bases there huh it's got a mouse pad for your comfort it's got
one of these little uh ah
who makes these again moss cable it's got one of these little magnetic cable
holders see that test cart technology grab your usbs because they're
conveniently magnetically cable managed i don't know i thought from lewis
rossman all you need to know is the fan spins no and the fan isn't spinning so
let's go ahead and press the power button there
did you break the knock oh wait no i think it just lit up
okay cool now that we knew that nothing crucial got covered in conformal coding
we were ready to put the pc in the plane how do we get our pc in there so in the
back seat yeah it's like in the back seat that's really going to hurt our
center of gravity there yeah we need to put some like weights or
something up in here oh now we're putting weights in the thing this thing
was hard enough to fly in the first place although we were technically able
to get the pc in through the front window it was very difficult to access
so we needed to create a bigger opening scalpel
thank you for not putting the blade into my finger
that's good oh this is much sharper
because the blade is thin it's actually harder to cut in a straight line though
i guess when you're cutting bodies it's less of a concern that you go in a straight line maybe
oh no problem oh oh it's so beautiful
good news is our system fits bad news is the i o does not stick out the door the
pc fit in surprisingly well meaning we could skip having any i o extensions and
instead just drill some holes in the side of the plane for usb Ethernet and
Thunderbolt oh not bad
not bad at all oh
okay yeah it came out clean perfect nice
oh crap so there's the pontoon mount
i was trying to widen the hole slowly and just rip the whole thing out
shoot to keep the pc in one place we decided
that the best option was to put zip ties down through the pcb attach a washer on
the other side then use another zip tie to tighten it down after installation in
its super cool new case we just needed to make sure that the pc had survived
the operation what could we have possibly broken over the last little bit
here yes
oh okay have me freaking out a little bit there
let's see if the wi-fi still works wi-fi is still working so we managed to
not unplug that crap okay all right all right
okay all right the first flying computer
other than all the other flying computers can you can you see it in there
here oh it's coming for you
can you see it see the computer in there well you can
see the i o i don't know you can kind of see it it's kind of hard
to see actually yeah whatever it's in there trust me
okay
oh that gust let's just go for it
we're up and away oh my god the weight
the weight the balance is uh is look way off you want to fly by
i'll give you a flyby
you know what i was actually probably wrong to make those adjustments to the
elevator
never mind i was right to make those adjustments to the elevator that just
saved us
come on baby
no oh crap okay well um
that wasn't what i meant to do i was trying to bring it over to the road and
the wind just pushed me right
this was actually my backup plan in case i lost confidence and i didn't want but
i was going to do it on that side where they're kind of taller
so wow
seems totally fine yeah i don't think we took any damage
coming into the grass there because like i said i had already cut the power
if you see the flies hell yeah brother
they said it couldn't be done wait who was the one who said it
couldn't be done that was us wasn't it uh luke seems to be on to us
i called him and said we needed to meet
tomorrow for a video thing and maybe it was i said the fact i said
it was Floatplane related maybe he'd put two and two together but he's like
oh is it that plane that's in the office so i lied to him i said no it's not so
we're gonna have to be like ha ha yes it was got you
so it's last minute preparation time we have finally mounted the pontoons
making it properly a Floatplane can i hold it up for a second
are you are you guys good can i just hold it up for a second
ah and we're doing some last minute prep while luke waits for us upstairs so
we're trying to get a gopro mounted inside the cockpit which would be super
cool like actually looking out through the cockpit and then alex is trying to
figure out the uh the servos and rubber bands and
whatnot that
we need to hook up here we lied to you
so i did call it haha yes it was
shut up we made a working Floatplane
it flies it does fly really of course it flies
this is Linus tech tips and there is a full quad core
machine with m.2 SSD 32 gigs of RAM
and Thunderbolt 3
inside that's amazing functioning computer functioning plane wanna go fly
it yes all right let's go so he went into the warehouse to borrow
a speaker for a wedding yeah like a bluetooth speaker and he saw the plane
after all those i even stopped at it was like whoa
that's cool i wonder what that's for who's working
on this and the stupid thing is that i thought i was being so clever
telling you it's Floatplane related yeah yeah
i know we just gave this to you but there is a very good chance that it will
not survive the day i have never done a water takeoff or landing and i have only
even successfully landed a plane
sort of once should we just go for it or what
the water's really still it's nice that all these trees are around here yeah
there's one duck that's kind of in the way there so i kind of wait for him to
yeah maybe get out of there you could probably turn that way
yeah i want to take off directly away from me though just because it's a
little easier bring it back to control sure
okay actually hold on
hold on yeah oh yeah he's gotta run you know what let's just
do it whoa okay
alrighty then oh wow this is actually this is a very
small pond this is a much smaller park than i had
last time
it is gusty it is gusty today
if there was any doubt that it's gusty let me
set your mind at ease about that
there's some chop there's some chop in the air
no no i'm not that low it's okay
the wind just picked me right up there did you guys see that
that was not me on the elevator
oh wow
not the smoothest landing of all time
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now let's make sure the computer still works at some point but i'm sure it's
fine i'm sure it's fine we just we just tested it before we came out
yeah no i honestly i don't even think so yeah
we got the i'm glad we put the tape on though i'm really glad we put the tape on so guys
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