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love me love me say that you love me
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fool me fool me go on and fool
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me oh wow F congratulations you got a
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broken iMac you replace the motherboard
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with one of those Chinese boards that
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convert the display to an HDMI One
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display technology in the iMac G5 is so
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old my grandma has more resolution in it
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the backlight sucks this video is
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terrible is this what you try to pass as
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something original on YouTube now so I
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really got into it when in the intro I
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said this has no apple Parts in it I was
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serious and it really has a resolution
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of 2560 x600 a refresh rate of 240 HZ
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and it's not just a display because that
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would be boring this is a thing that I
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built for a very specific use case but
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I'll tell you about that later and uh
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I'd rather show you and tell you what it
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is because it's kind of difficult to
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explain so you connect it to whatever
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you want using one USBC cable that was
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my MacBook Pro there but let's use my
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steam deck here for a change which is
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actually the intended thing that I build
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this for so as you can see now my steam
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duck through this one single cable there
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is no trickery here it is outputting
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video to this display here and also
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getting power but also as you can see it
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is getting access to this mouse and
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keyboard they do work and that's because
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the ports on the back of the iMac here
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do actually work and they connect
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through that single USB cable not just
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that but the webcam here too is working
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I'm not turning it on now because it has
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a super wide fov and I don't want to
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show you my massive room but I have some
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beeroll here so you get access to all of
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that you get access to speakers and you
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also get access to something very
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special so we have Office for Mac 2011
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here which doesn't work on the steam
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deck unless I do some vm3 which I'm not
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doing today but yeah if I put it here
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there is a working DVD drive that's also
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connected through that single USBC you
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get access to all you need to turn your
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steam deck or laptop into a small party
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machine I have my steam controller
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dongle thing here let me actually plug
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it in the back let me actually uh put my
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steam duck back into gaming mode very
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often when I hang out with my friends we
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want to play some party games or
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something like Mario Kart which I never
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ever would emulate on my steam deck I
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would never do that and we pretty often
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would like to have a fast way to get a
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bigger screen to actually see what
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you're doing and something that can
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instantly let us connect controllers to
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my steam deck and just play stuff this
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is precisely that it's basically the
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best hidden sleeper Party Machine that I
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could ever build I really viy with the
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aesthetic of the inck G5 but right now
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they are very useless machines so I
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wanted to build like a sort of scene
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prop that also is functionally something
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that I can use when I am doing stuff so
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I can actually display stuff on here
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very easily and and I haven't told you
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the best part so let me actually unplug
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this right now this was pluged to the
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wall using a charger but I am European
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as you can clearly tell from my uh hair
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and my accent which means that of course
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I designed this to be fully USBC
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compliant this is a fully portable USBC
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monitor I can literally just plug my
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power bank into it plug my steam deck
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and now we should get access to all of
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the goodies that have jam packed inside
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here hopefully yeah un likee my pight
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webcam video I actually designed and
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built this from scratch I didn't follow
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any instructions everything that you see
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here is something that I had to figure
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out myself and uh it is a bit juny but
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let me tell you how I built this because
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uh it's an interesting story since I was
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a kid I've seen a lot of people take old
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iMac like this one and especially the
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iMac G4 which makes sense because that's
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probably the best looking computer of
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all time and retrofitting them with
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newer Parts you see people putting M1
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Mac M inside of them or Intel KN and
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hacking toshing them but the design of
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this iMac is Iconic even after 20 years
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this panel is not the iMac G5 and its
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successor the white Intel iMac came in
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various different sizes I think the 17
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in one is the best candidate for modding
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because 17 in is small enough to let me
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retrofit a new laptop panel I can go to
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a website like panel.com and find a
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panel that is exactly the same size and
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aspect ratio as the original one but
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with double the resolution double the
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refresh rate rate or even four times the
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refresh rate newer backlight technology
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and way way thinner of a body and that's
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exactly what I did I bought this Boe
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display for about 80 you might have seen
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it in my last video I was using it there
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and after buying a display board
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actually three of them I had to figure
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out which one was the best one I can
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adapt its EMB bettered display port
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connector which is meant for laptops to
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basically anything and in this case I
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went for USBC display port out after
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doing some digging I managed to get the
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perfect specimen the perfect guinea pig
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to work on a 17 in iMac G5 that was sold
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for parts and buy for parts I mean
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everything was removed from it except
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for the housing like the physical case
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and the panel this panel right here that
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was perfect for me because if I screw
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something up I wouldn't end up killing a
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working iMac so I I wouldn't feel that
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guilty about it and also for €1 I
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couldn't really go wrong and so I order
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it I wait a bit I get it and I
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immediately start checking what I got
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because it would have been weird for
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someone to try and scam me when I was
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buying a broken iMac but you never no
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these days I got the package and
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everything was exactly what I ordered
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which is great except for the fact that
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after I started opening it up there are
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like some screws here that you need to
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remove and then you just take the Basel
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out for years I have been under the
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impression that IM g5s have their
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display their panel mounted on the Basel
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and if you go to iix it you can actually
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confirm that that I wasn't just having a
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pipe dream or a harh pipe dream in case
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you're R Cuomo that's actually correct
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so why was my iMac having its display
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mounted on the body which was a problem
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for me because I wanted to just yank
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that out and mount my own display and
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mounting it on the Basel is just easier
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if you are beginner like me well this is
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not a normal iMac G5 it's an iMac G5
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eyesight and even though they look
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completely identical on the outside they
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are two completely different machines on
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the inside and so I was kind of screwed
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I now had to figure out a way to make
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that work the most logical solution here
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probably would have been designing an
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adapter bracket that made my laptop
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panel thicker and added some screw
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mounts and I didn't do that I didn't do
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that and I decided to just do this the
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oldfashioned way and by that I mean
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copying what the normal iMac G5 does
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mounting the display on the bathroom the
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first thing that I did was just see if
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my actual panel was the right size and I
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I tested that by literally taping it on
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the Basel and it worked okay nothing CAU
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on fire the panel is precisely the same
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size as this original piece of trash and
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so for a brief second there I could
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enjoy the pleasure of taking a look at
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what I could eventually build and now it
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was time to build it so let me show you
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what my solution to mount the panel here
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is I I got to take my screwdriver one
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second this is the fanciest screwdriver
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set that I've ever owned let's open this
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thing up and show you uh everything that
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I did editor
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F bring me a dream give me the best b
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roll that I've ever seen because this
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camera angle is kind of weird and I
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don't even know what I am doing so after
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you remove those screws there you just
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have to uh basically take out this Basel
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here there are two metal clamps here on
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the top that I removed you shouldn't
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have remove them but I removed them this
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is not coming out yeah I forgot a screw
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this one of the weird ones too because
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Apple really wants to make my life
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difficult for no reason and I also got
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the wrong bit now there are so many bits
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here looks like a Nintendo 64 commercial
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all right so you go here you go here let
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me show you what I cooked there are
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several tables here that are sandwich
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between the screen and everything else
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and I got to disconnect them so my
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solution for mounting the panel on the
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Basel has been a combination of a lot of
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stuff first and foremost a lot of
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electrical tape but I didn't want this
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to be like the thing keeping everything
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together because you should never rely
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on tape too much because if it's too hot
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or too cold like Cy Perry uh it loses
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its stickiness so yeah never use that
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for like permanent mounting here I
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basically use it for like lining
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everything up but the real sauce here
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the thing keeping everything together is
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this plastic back plate that by using
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some Magnetic Tape here and some here
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basically holds everything in place
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using magnets this Magnetic Tape is
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meant for like curtains but uh yeah I
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just put some here some here and it's
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basically keeping everything closed
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together pressed together to avoid the
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panel popping out it took me three
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attempts to design a back blade that
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will not only fit with some innocent
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plastic being sacrificed in the process
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but also to figure out where to split
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the plastic parts since I can't print
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this back plate in one piece in either
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of my home printers I have an A1 and an
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A1 Mini and both of them can print this
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entire piece in one go for some reason
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the first time around I really wanted to
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use my A1 Mini instead of my full size
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A1 and the bambo A1 Mini has a smaller
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bed compared to the A1 so I had to make
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like super small parts and I didn't
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really think this true I was basically
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ending up with a F Breaking Bad plates
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in having to Like Glue the parts at the
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edges with no contact surface second
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version was way better and I actually
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designed a real proper way to join the
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parts by using some super strong
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double-sided tape that came with a user
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manual for some reason but I made this
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one too wide so the eye me wouldn't
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close and after making a third version
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triming the sides I managed to make it
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work finally if you're wondering why it
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has this peculiar shape that's because
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we also have here a working webcam I got
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a USB webcam module from AliExpress it's
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not the best but it's acceptable and it
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fits perfectly here and I just taped
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that one down I didn't bother building
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anything fancy for that but what I did
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bother building something fancy for our
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speakers here let me actually put this
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back and while I put this back small
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story time to tell you about the
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speakers here because you might be
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wondering what are those speakers and
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why are they so small why are they
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mounted that way there's this playay
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board right here that I use to control
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the laptop panel this is one of three
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boards that I bought and it's the only
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one that turns on automatically when you
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plug in a cable and that's important
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because I always meant this board to
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stay inside so the user wouldn't have
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access to the buttons to turn the
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monitor on now this board right here is
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perfectly fine for handling video
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however when you're building a display
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instead of an iMac housing you also want
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audio you want to be able to have some
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speakers built in because it would be
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weird to not have them it wouldn't be
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convincing so it has this connector
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right here that on this board is
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unmarked but on the other two boards
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that I got they have the same connector
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and there it is marked a speaker
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connector after checking the AliExpress
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listing again they were talking about
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this as a two wat speaker interface
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which doesn't really help me figure out
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whatever cable goes here but after using
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Google Lens I managed to figure out that
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this was a ph1 25 connector and after
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searching that on AliExpress I managed
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to find some speakers specifically made
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for these kinds of boards using this
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connector and they do
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[Music]
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work I had no idea how to mount them
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here originally until I figured out that
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I could use this uh holes here on the
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Basel in the metal part so I made this
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ramboo shaped housings for the speakers
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I modeled them I printed them using my
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A1 Mini this time because they are
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actually perfect they're small so I
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could print them without having to split
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them into please never do this they do
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work but their quality stinks they're
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not good speakers but they are speakers
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they're stereo and they work so that's
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how I mounted the display to the front
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Basel it's a mess okay don't get me
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wrong this is not how you should do
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stuff but it works and effectively we
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just have two cables that uh connect the
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back that we're going to talk about in a
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second to the front here this webcam one
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and the display one and I'm actually
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happy with how this turned out it's not
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super clean it's not like perfect but it
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works and it's not like you're going to
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notice it when everything is closed
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unless you have X-ray vision in which
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case you're probably Superman it is now
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time to talk
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about this thing but before we do that
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let me take a second to talk about
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today's sponsor bamboo lab you might be
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rightfully wondering fam what is this
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background why are you standing in a
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kitchenette and the reason is that this
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door right here is only working thanks
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to my bamboo A1 mini printer that's a
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weird story basically uh this door has
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been here since forever and it's a very
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cheap plastic door it's working using
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some hooks here on the top that
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eventually after years of f got
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destroyed and I couldn't find any
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replacements for them they were like
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completely impossible to find and so I
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just took one of the hooks that still
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worked one of the plastic hooks I
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recreated it in 3D and I just printed it
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in PG with my A1 Mini and now I have a
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working door here I have a mini ITX case
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that I'm building for my Nest this was
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actually a project by a fellow YouTuber
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that I downloaded I modified this using
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bamboo slicer to have a window in the
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front for a USB screen but then I
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decided I'm not going to use a USB
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screen so I'm also now printing a
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different front blade for it which has a
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fake logo that I'm printing using the
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multiple colors print feature of the AMS
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light and yeah I'm a total newbie when
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it comes to 3D printing but I love my
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bamboo printers they just work like
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appliances it's extremely easy to use
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them I don't have to think about
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leveling the bed manually or anything
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like that the printer does everything
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for me I just need to think about what I
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want to print and then print it using my
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computer or my phone I can just use the
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bamboo handy app so check out the A1 and
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a One Mini in the link in description
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and thanks again to Bamboo for
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sponsoring this video before we go back
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to the video I want to chime in for
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transparency and say that some of you
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made me aware of a controversy going on
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with bamboo right now since they changed
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the way Bamboo Connect Works which is
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essentially something that lets you
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connect to your bamboo printers using
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third party slicers I'm going to be
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honest I had no idea this was even a
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feature I only used bamboo studio for
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what I do I'm perfectly happy with
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bamboo Studio however for the sake of
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transparency I'm going to leave a link
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in the description to uh the first
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article about these changes that bamboo
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made since I've heard a lot of
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misinformation about this so I'd rather
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just link you to an actual news source
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and let you know precisely what's going
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on from them that said back to the video
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if you're expecting some masterfully
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crafted custom PCB think again because
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you're about to Embark into a journey to
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Jun town where everything works and from
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the outside looks perfect but on the
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inside it is basically an engineer
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Nightmare and a potential fire hazard
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okay ready ready for this let's [ __ ]
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go all right so I'm taking a p from dkos
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for this recording with my iPhone
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because it's way easier to explain what
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I did here and I've removed everything
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except for this mysterious box I mean
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all of you have already figured out what
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it is and this one which are the bases
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that are like stuck to the case right
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now so uh let's start from the brains
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that make everything work this is a
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normal USB hub that has a very special
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feature that basically turns it into the
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brains of the operation here it has a as
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you can see here this
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USBC video output so what this means is
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that uh if I connect this USB hub to my
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steam deck or my MacBook Pro anything
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that supports USBC DP Out video output
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we can then use this USBC output right
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here to interface with a USBC
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screen it is connecting but it's it's
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not getting enough power don't worry
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this is normal we also need to give it
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power so there's this PD input here and
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we need a USBC cable for that there we
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go we have this one right here let's
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plug it here let's connect a battery
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Bank okay we have enough power here
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let's plug
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everything back again and as you'll see
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here now we are going to have our steam
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deck connected to the USB hub which is
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providing it a video output and also
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power thanks to the PD Port now why are
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we going through this USB hub here if we
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can just connect the monitor directly to
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the steam deck the reason is that I
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don't just want to get video output here
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I also want all of the ports here on the
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back of the iMac to work and that's what
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the USB C Hub is supposed to do here the
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ideal solution here would have been
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designing a custom PCB board that is
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emulating the max motherboard fitting
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every single hole here perfectly but
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right now I don't know how to design
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custom PCB so like configures I make do
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and my extremely brain D solution is
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using USB extenders and Splitters I have
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a bunch of them right here and I'll
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explain what we're going to do with them
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but yeah essentially I just put a lot of
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extension cables here trying to make
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them fit perfectly uh in the holes on
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the back of the iMac and after cutting
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the external rubber on some of them or
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straight up [ __ ] up some others I
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managed to sort of make it work however
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I also wanted a USB C Hub to connect to
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my steam deck or MacBook not with a mail
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plug like this but with a female plug so
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I bought these couplers here which
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actually fit perfectly and they are
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rated for Thunderbolt yeah effectively
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thanks to them we have female ports to
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connect our power and our devices
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directly to the back of the iMac these
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are definitely not be spoke and they
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stick out a bit but it's fine it's it's
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fine and now we have to figure out well
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everything else and that is really just
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a combination of usba a Splitters usba a
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to USBC converters and trial and error
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modifying cables hoping that they're
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going to fit properly on the back of the
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iMac I am very proud of how I managed to
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make the three USB ports here work
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because it's literally just a very cheap
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cable that I stripped from its
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protective Rubber and then physically
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stuck on the case here with some very
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strong tape I had the same with the
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audio cables here about a very cheap USB
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sound card and I used audio Jack
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extenders to extend the audio input and
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output Jack to the back of the iMac and
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also just stuck everything there using
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that tape I also tried doing this for
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the ethernet port but the cable was way
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too thick even after modifying it so the
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only way to have ethernet here would be
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having the cable sticking out and I mean
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that works if I really need to use it
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but right now that and what was the
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video output of the iMac are not
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connected to anything I don't have
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anything coming out of those ports but
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now let's talk about was on the inside
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because there's a reason if I made this
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spaghetti mess and asides from getting
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the USB splitter to work it's because I
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wanted some devices to be integrated
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here and to Simply connect to whatever
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device it's connected to the USB hub
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with one cable let's start with the
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elephant in the room the super drive
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here which is not an original Super
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Drive I did buy one however it didn't
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work it didn't want to like take discs
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so I returned it and I bought a bootleg
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one a fake one from Amazon that one
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worked perfectly so I opened it up I
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discovered that I had to like break the
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housing in order to just get access to
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the rboard and after reusing one of
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those first failed attempts of building
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a back plate for my LCD panel I managed
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to mount it on the back of the iMac I
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managed to make it align perfectly and
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after connecting it to the hub it just
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works which is insane let's open VC
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audio
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CD come
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on it's it's reading it's a
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city there we go oh these are the
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internal speakers that I put in the
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display they suck they are not the Apple
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ones okay I switch to the steam de ones
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uh but yeah we have a working City Drive
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here too the webc come from the front
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Basel of course also connects to the hub
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that is pretty straightforward but the
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thing that I'm most proud of here that I
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managed to connect to this and get it to
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work is the fler dongle which is the
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small dongle right here that lets me use
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infrared remotes with
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this family Mac the iMac G5 originally
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shipped with the Apple remote the first
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gen one I have this one new in box that
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we're going to open today we're going to
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make it non-collectible this is
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extremely challenging to open for some
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reason after replacing the death
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batteries which were here for 20 years
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now with some that I stole from a zigby
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button and setting up the remote using
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the Flair app this is not sponsored by
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flare by the way I just really like
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their dongles I can use this apple
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remote with whatever is connected to
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this monitor iMac thing f also since we
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are recording our own infrared signals
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we can literally use any remote we want
00:22:04
we're are not limited to the Apple
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remote so you can literally take your AC
00:22:09
remote and use that I don't know why you
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would do that but it works the iMac is
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specifically designed to accommodate for
00:22:15
infrared signals because it has a
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translucent part in the Basel here which
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is where the original infrared module
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will sit I've just taped my FLIR dongle
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to sort a point there from the inside
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and it works they just super junky on
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the inside but from the outside it's
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totally slick also since the USB hub
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actually comes with a built-in micro SD
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card reader I put a half gigabyte micro
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inside of it which gives me a lot of
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space for my Steam games it's not super
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fast but it's fast enough for a lot of
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games and especially retro games and
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party games which is why I build this
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entire thing in the first place you know
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that photo of Steve Jobs having an ey NE
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like this yeah I kind of get it now
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because after spending two weeks
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building this and tailoring it to my
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specific needs I've been using it a lot
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and I've been loving it however I have
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to of course accept that it's not
00:23:04
perfect and that I could make it way
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better it's just that I've never worked
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on something like this Hardware modding
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retrofitting from scratch before so uh
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this has been a learning experience and
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there is a lot of stuff that I could
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improve here from how I mounted the
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ports on the back here because the tape
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is working and it's holding everything
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in place but it's kind of Wiggly it's
00:23:25
kind of janky what do I mean by
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jankiness for example in setup is that
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if I disconnect the power from the
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display now okay and then I plug it back
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even though it starts getting power
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again makes this ticking bomb sound
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every time uh but yeah it's powered now
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again however as you can see we got no
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video output because every time you plug
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something to this monitor you have to
00:23:51
remember you need to First plug the
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power cable in and then only after you
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do that plug the uh data cable to your
00:24:00
device it's it's weird but I don't know
00:24:02
if the problem here lays in the display
00:24:04
board or the USB hub there is a problem
00:24:06
with the handshake where like if I don't
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plug the power in first then uh the
00:24:12
display can't even like recognize that
00:24:14
something has been plugged in it's weird
00:24:16
also another thing you got to keep in
00:24:17
mind when you're using this is that it
00:24:19
uses a lot of power so if you want to
00:24:21
plug a battery Bank you got to have a
00:24:23
pretty beefy battery Bank in this case I
00:24:26
am using a 20 Vols one it's like USB PD
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rated and everything and it works fine
00:24:33
one very peculiar problem is that the
00:24:35
USBC cers deers however their name the
00:24:38
male to female things here that I'm
00:24:40
using to convert the cables into ports
00:24:43
only work on one side which is not
00:24:46
normal but the most important problems
00:24:48
here are actually related to the USB hub
00:24:51
that I'm using because so this is
00:24:54
working pretty much perfectly with my uh
00:24:56
steam Deck with my phone when it comes
00:24:58
to my MacBook sometimes it doesn't like
00:25:01
some stuff that is plugged inside of
00:25:03
here for example the DVD drive doesn't
00:25:05
work pretty often I don't know why it's
00:25:08
working with my steim deck it's not
00:25:09
working with my MacBook however uh that
00:25:12
already happened with other devices my
00:25:14
MacBook is kind of Moody when it comes
00:25:16
to what USBC stuff I'm plug into it so
00:25:20
maybe it's a Macbook Problem by far the
00:25:22
biggest problem that I have with this
00:25:23
was with my Windows computer because
00:25:25
even though it supports USB CDP out out
00:25:28
output it is not providing the USB hub
00:25:31
and the monitor with enough power I
00:25:33
think that's because it doesn't expect
00:25:34
like a fullon USB hub connected to a
00:25:38
video Port that said I actually love
00:25:40
this I'm using it super often and I I'm
00:25:43
looking forward to have this as part of
00:25:45
my like video set in the background
00:25:47
displaying stuff because it has this
00:25:49
like perfect y 2K aesthetic and uh now
00:25:53
it's also got Modern Hardware so I am
00:25:55
extremely happy with what I designed and
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made here in order to complete a look
00:25:59
here I've actually bought this apple USB
00:26:01
keyboard that was originally shipped
00:26:03
with the iMac so that's actually its
00:26:05
keyboard is was actually meant to go
00:26:07
with this computer and even though it's
00:26:09
a membran keyboard it's a pretty good
00:26:11
membrane keyboard I could happily live
00:26:12
with that honestly what I couldn't live
00:26:14
with at all is actually the mouse it's
00:26:17
got no right click button because Apple
00:26:19
used to be like that uh it's also like
00:26:22
extremely slow extremely it's it's not
00:26:25
good what the hell is happening now okay
00:26:28
uh yeah so I I would suggest you get a
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proper Mouse I just wanted to get this
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one because like to complete the look
00:26:36
here I I needed one okay I couldn't
00:26:38
really avoid it but if you're actually
00:26:39
planning on using this daily please get
00:26:41
a decent Mouse don't do this if you're
00:26:43
wondering how much I spent to build this
00:26:45
it was around1 to $125 including
00:26:49
everything however that cost could have
00:26:51
been brought down significantly if I
00:26:53
didn't buy most stuff locally if I
00:26:55
bought everything from China the price
00:26:57
would have been significantly lower and
00:26:59
yeah I know there's going to be some
00:27:01
people in the comments saying stuff like
00:27:02
oh you spent a lot of money just to make
00:27:04
this look like an iMac when you could
00:27:06
have bought this generic display from
00:27:08
Amazon and like yeah that's true I know
00:27:10
that some people don't like apple I know
00:27:12
that some people think that this is a
00:27:14
useless effort but my monkey rain really
00:27:16
likes this kind of Y Tok static and I
00:27:19
really wanted to create something that
00:27:20
was both modern and look like something
00:27:23
from 20 years ago that's pretty much it
00:27:25
when I was a kid these computers were
00:27:26
like the object of my desire I really
00:27:28
wanted one of them but Apple products
00:27:30
were expensive my family didn't want to
00:27:32
spend for them so today as a grown adult
00:27:35
I'm trying to bring back those memories
00:27:37
and enhance them and also try to bring
00:27:39
something useful to life in the process
00:27:41
because remember that this iMac if I
00:27:43
didn't buy it was destined for the
00:27:45
Landfield so I actually turned something
00:27:47
that would have been waste into
00:27:49
something very cool and that's going to
00:27:51
be a part of my set from now on also
00:27:53
about all of the jankiness you have to
00:27:55
keep in mind this is the first time I
00:27:57
try to build anything like this from
00:27:59
scratch without any instructions and
00:28:01
going forward I would like to learn how
00:28:03
to actually design pcbs because it would
00:28:06
make projects like this look way cleaner
00:28:08
and it would spare me having all these
00:28:10
weird issues with like USBC that are
00:28:13
probably also connected to how much I am
00:28:15
string to have here that's something
00:28:17
that I can't ignore that said going
00:28:19
forward there is one thing that I really
00:28:20
would like to build and it's still based
00:28:22
on an iMac but it will be the G4 because
00:28:25
this looks so good and that would be
00:28:27
retrofitting and iMac G4 with modern
00:28:30
computer hardware and I was actually
00:28:33
thinking about like putting a framework
00:28:35
motherboard inside of the computer if
00:28:37
you don't know framework they make
00:28:38
computers that are repairable and
00:28:39
upgradeable and they also sell the
00:28:42
individual parts for repairs and also
00:28:44
just like for DIY projects like this
00:28:46
ones on their website so you can go
00:28:48
there and actually buy a modern laptop
00:28:50
motherboard that is also straight up
00:28:52
design for DIY project someone on the
00:28:54
framework forums actually did this with
00:28:56
a vintage MacBook Pro they retrofit a
00:28:58
new framework motherboard inside of it
00:29:00
so what you see here is a modern
00:29:02
computer and they made custom boards for
00:29:04
everything and oh my God I I really want
00:29:06
to build something like this someday
00:29:08
it's so cool I guess that's it for today
00:29:10
this video was the Natural Evolution of
00:29:12
my eyesight one some of you were like oh
00:29:14
you didn't actually build this you're
00:29:16
just following instructions well guess
00:29:18
what look at this sh look at this fire
00:29:19
hazard is your fault I have to say
00:29:21
making this gave me a completely
00:29:23
different understanding of how much
00:29:25
effort fellow YouTuber bring shout out
00:29:27
to him by the way way he's a great guy
00:29:29
but I now get how interesting and also
00:29:32
difficult it is to retrofit something
00:29:33
from scratch but it's also very
00:29:35
addicting and rewarding so there is also
00:29:37
that side and also considering his aid
00:29:39
for physical media and the fact that I
00:29:41
literally went out of my way to put up
00:29:43
DVD drive inside of this IMC thing I
00:29:45
guess I'm canonically his enemy now I
00:29:47
didn't want to be his enemy okay I'm
00:29:49
sorry
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he
