Building the DIY Tablet PC - Kano Computer Kit Touch Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,555 words · ~12 min read
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you want to just keep doing that all day you want to make the video
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what's that this is a canoe is
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a tablet the cano computer kit touch
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and this is kind of like the cano computer kit that you and i built before
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but this time you touch it that's right you guys want to help me
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make it yeah please and this video is sponsored by
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cano and me me
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you guys aren't the sponsor all right
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computer kit touch oh look
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keyboard you know there's other words on the box kit or lindy taco okay that's
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french but there's other stuff too build it yourself
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learn to code 100 plus
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creative challenges make art games music hack minecraft app
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store ages 6 and up wow so this is actually
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quite quite a bit keyboard more okay all right all right
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punch punch so this is the computer kit touch which is kind of a significantly
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upgraded version of the computer kit that i actually built with this guy
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just about it must have been about a year ago now at this point
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but the promotion that they're actually highlighting right now is for the harry
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potter wand so that was one that i did on my own but that thing is really
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freaking cool so the wand includes full gesture control so you can actually wave
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it around in order to execute functions and include 70 step-by-step challenges
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to help you get familiar with the world of coding
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in the world of wizarding so go check that out at the link in the
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video description it's 79.99 down from 99 for the holiday season can you find
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me the screen in here where is it well you got to look for it
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is it what do you think this is
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a keyboard so is a keyboard a screen no
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what is a screen is this a screen i don't think that's a
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screen oh
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are you gonna help us take out the pieces are you just gonna play with the foam i'm gonna
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play with all of the foam oh you just want more foam
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yeah
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that's the screen looks like it you want to hold it up and
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show youtube so that's the screen
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so every device with a touchscreen what it
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has is it has all of these wires in there and they're invisible this is not
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the real wires this is just a screen protector that has
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the grid of the wires overlaid on it see so this comes off
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but under the screen are real wires so what happens is it detects when your
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finger touches or swipes or scrolls or whatever it is
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that you want to do cool huh so the idea last time was i was pretty
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helpful this time now that he can read so much better i'm
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and now that he has such a helpful assistant over here who is arranging these foams
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in the box really nicely for us i'm expecting him to mostly do it himself
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okay so what else do we need ready for the next page yeah maybe you shouldn't
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have piled everything on top of the booklet then
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no goes right in that tiny little slot there
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here yeah i think you got it yep you're good
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that's it goes in just like that pick up the screen oh wow we go straight to the
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screen all right you're going to have to flip
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the screen over i think there's already opening there
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oh that's different so this is the display controller is that the back of
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the screen uh yeah that's the back of the screen
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so inside all of your electronics whether it's phones or laptops or
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computers there's actually behind the screen all these things that make them
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work grab the cable block
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and put on these two snap it onto the screen you are right
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darling otherwise this way
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keep your cables organized
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do you think cable management is important which cable message oh boy i have failed
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you as a father the thousands of wire copper flips
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twisted into 19
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fibers so inside here i need to go party oh
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have you learned anything so far no no
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i feel like you've learned something about the brain or the screen controller
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no no you knew it already no
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that's what i thought
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yeah there we go that's awesome perfect your face is protected
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you could do anything now no pretty sure you could
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no yeah i can't lift up the office have you
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tried no
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oh wow that's not bad how does it fly
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oh wow that actually went that went better than i expected to be perfectly
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honest with you the cable will carry pictures from your
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computer to screen it sends images video
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and more using brainy code binary code
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zeros and ones do we plug this into anything we will but not till later
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okay plug the big end of the orange cable into the brain
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don't forget to cable manage as you go watch cable manage cable managing is
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taking these little cables and making sure that they are
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finished does that is that the battery that's
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right that battery is plug the power cable into the brains us when the
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computer is done is it gonna be ready and
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the video is done uh no it still needs to be edited and do
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you know how we edit videos no on a computer
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the idea is that you're taking the entire internals of a tablet and you're
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kind of connecting them in a bright colorful
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easy to understand way
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very cool i heard someone running who was that
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dennis it's not a bad it's not a bad bet if you see someone with their shirt off
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it's probably dennis do you think you're pretty smart now are
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you smarter than you were a year ago when we did this yeah
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even though this one's more complicated you can do it yeah
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that's upside down my dear i'm smarter than dad well
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that may be true but you should probably aspire to greater
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can you help me yeah you plug these ones into the top
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and it's a little bit easier if you do them in the bottom so maybe you still need your old man
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after all huh
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now you need batteries yeah now we need the battery can you bring the battery
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over darling the keyboard on the battery i see that
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is it still charging uh no because it's not plugged into the
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battery anymore that's how it charges is that good
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uh yeah that looks good to me go for it good job
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make sure it covers all the pins yep you got it
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make sure you got it the right way you got to look at it because it's keyed so
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it only goes one way look at the shape so you got to check the slot that you're
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plugging it into and make sure that you're putting it in the right way are you putting it in the right way
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sweetie you're putting it in no you're still putting it in backwards
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hold on that was the other way though no
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that's better
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what is it it's a power brick
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all right we are so close look it's almost done
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does ours look like that one yes good
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so right here is the brain that does all the thinking for the computer
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and then right here is
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the power button and also
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this is where the power comes in for the brain
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so you plug into the wall right here
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and then it goes into our battery which charges up with battery juice
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and then that powers over here our brain
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and it powers our display controller
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that's a screen that's the screen so that's going to
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turn on soon
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are you sure yeah are you sure
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have you got it quite aligned there i think your sister's trying to show you
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something
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you guys got to figure it out i'm not i'm not doing it today
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uh-uh what does this for that's our power cord
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there i did it do we plug it in oh are you sure are you sure no this this isn't
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in yet hold on there we go there okay
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you guys got to figure it out i'm not i'm not doing it today so remember the
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HDMI cable we plugged in okay can you
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can you look at it this one oh yeah now do you remember i
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thought you were talking about last year's we're gonna actually be using a separate
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computer to intercept the signal that's
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running down this cable and record it for the audience out there on youtube
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pretty cool huh yeah we're entering the matrix this is a way better kit honestly
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having the screen all like integrated into it so that it's just one piece like
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this
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whoa what was that it said it said hello
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makes a noise can you make some noise quick make some noise
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look how big that noise was you can tell how big the noise is by how
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big it is see how daddy's really loud
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ready to swipe and slide or are you ready for the touchscreen part yes
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so these wires running through here when you touch right there
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what you do is you send a signal to this wire and this wire
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and it knows your finger's right there
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cool huh and that's right it can detect more than
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one finger at a time
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there you go good job so this says set background color too
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and then you snap that onto the bottom onto the bottom
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draw clouds whoa so we're going to let you use it and
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we're going to let you pick what colors okay
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deal do you want girl hair or boy hair girl hair block
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oh i think so too what color belt
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um blue should we put a hat
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yeah please what kind of hat is that oh my goodness it's antlers
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okay here we are
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this is so much better of just like an
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overall package there's a touchscreen yeah up and down
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you got to pay attention you're getting your bike kicked
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arrows up and down you got it
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there you go go up up up oh
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there you go now you're getting ahead of it
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good work you beat me let's keep moving new badge first
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challenge so much easier when they can also use
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the touchscreen to just go through the menus and stuff so it says start with startups and it points over there use
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the scene drop down and pick the forest backgrounds
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uh you should probably use the mouse for this touch is great for certain things
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but for others it's better to use a mouse
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yeah there you go he didn't want a forest background
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all right we went with uh we went with minecraft
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okay so do you guys want to do story mode now
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so story mode has lots of challenges and it has a lot of things that you can
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learn about your computer that's in here how about making the most awesome game
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of pong and we're practicing all in the orange
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hut and try to be too challenged do you think you can beat two challenges yeah
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oh wow there's lots of new quests since the last time you logged in
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i love i love pong fancy a game or even better
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make your own uh play pong i wanna try make pong first
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what kind of scene would you like do you want space or minecraft you want space
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yes okay now let's go over to
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our startups again one
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oh wow okay
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do you want to make it big too how big
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100 oh wow that's going to be pretty big
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no play okay now play go ahead make
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that's super slow yeah that's pretty slow
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i think this game of pong would go on quite literally
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forever okay no you're done
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no okay can i go speed 100 please
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okay we can also add some events so if
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player one gets a goal what do we want it to do
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maybe it could make a sound oh yeah what sound do you want it to
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make tap tap okay let's go make
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i think we made the world's easiest pawn game it just makes this sound
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we keep scoring
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should we add some more features yeah that's so good so
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let's make uh logic if do
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uh so if let's say
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hit then events
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ah our actions player one wins no
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that's too easy maybe we could have it make another sound how about bloopy okay
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all right well i've gotta get back to work so
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do you guys want to uh maybe keep doing story mode and you can
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explore the inside of the computer well why don't you do story mode for a
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little bit because i think that's what uh your sister would like to see okay
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okay okay so there you have it guys that's the cano kit touch it includes a
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handful more things than the regular candle computer but honestly the
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usability and the portability of it is really nice like you can actually
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reconfigure the screen to flip around so you can use it in front of you while
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you're lying down or you can put it up like this it's
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pretty freaking sick and you can store the keyboard back here assuming that you
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don't have a bunch of wires running out of it for capture if you guys want to check out this one
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or we're also going to have the harry potter wand linked down below remember
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that's at the promotional price you guys can check those out at the link in the
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video description and i was actually just informed that they just added
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another 20 off discount code so if you use code friend 20 which we'll have
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listed in the video description you'll get it for like what 64 bucks pretty
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darn cool so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can hit that
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