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what's up guys JC cents here and I'm kind of in a good mood today because we had two million subscribers this morning it would have thought when I started this channel 1 million let alone two million I mean a thousand was a pipedream way back in the day almost 7 years now I've been running this channel so I'm gonna do another fun experiment one that actually has some practical use so it's kind of a stupid thing that by the end of this video might actually not be so stupid there's a lot of inspiration behind what we're about to do we'll talk about that right after our sponsor message origin PC builds high-performance custom pcs for gamers and professionals backed by 24/7 us-based support team their award-winning high-end pcs offer the latest and best components for gaming and workstations origin PC also created exclusive desktop designs including millennium and Genesis desktops with patented variable mounting technology and now offer a new lineup of laptops with GeForce r-tx graphics cards customize your own origin PC desktop or laptop with a 7 some 970 Evo plus nvme SSD featuring read speeds of up to 30 500 megabytes per second and write speeds up to 3,300 megabytes per second for more info on Origin PC systems and the Samsung 970 ebo + SSD click the link in the description below so you guys know that Little J has built her own computer on this channel now multiple times and as her little sister gets older and is conscious and aware of the computer she's conscious and aware of buttons and my youngest daughter is almost to the age now where I think she's ready to build her own computer she's obsessed with computer she really wants one so that's coming soon but what we've noticed is over the last year or so little J will be playing on her computer and then my youngest will walk over and then just be like to the power button now yes you could disable that power button in the OS by making it do various things like go to sleep sign out turn off or do nothing but rather than make it do nothing because Little J likes to just put her computer to sleep which is how that button this program where she just push it when we're like get down here dinnertime do your homework whatever she'll just she'll push that button it puts a computer to sleep and off she goes the problem is if you have someone constantly doing that to you while you're trying to play on it it's really super annoying well I also follow a car channel that I'm a huge fan of that I've been following since he was like very early days and that's Chris fix it he recently talked about how to install a kill switch to your in your car now this is something I've installed a whole bunch in the past cuz I used to also do car stereo and alarm system installs very high-end very trick crazy alarm systems where he had sequences to start the car designed to just make it harder for a thief not impossible there's nothing's impossible so I thought why not use the same concepts and then use his video idea as a trigger for me to install a kill switch into the computer making it so that you lock out the power button when you don't want it but have a hidden switch to make it work when you do this also has a lot of practical uses like I said little sisters and/or children that you don't want being able to get on the computer without knowing how to start it up if you do it right be lesser than tech savvy people will be fooled by this but anyone that's got you know any knowledge whatsoever on how a computer works might potentially be able to bypass this that's why we're gonna try and hide this so here's what we've got we've got some tools that we need to do this obviously we've got a toggle switch this is a momentary switch you don't want to have a toggle like an on/off because you forget to toggle it back then the switch it's not going to work so we have a momentary switch so this is something that's got to be pressed in conjunction with the power button to make the power button work when this isn't pressed the power button is bypassed nothing happens until this is held so our sequence is gonna be something along the lines of push push and then let go a system will do its thing same thing to turn it off push push it will turn off so we also have some wire here that I just sort of stole from excess things I had that didn't need anymore so we got some wire we've got some heat-shrink because we still want to look pretty although this is just one of our stupid J experiments we got a lighter and we also have a screwdriver probably get in our cases we need it some wire strippers and side cutters electrical tape drill drill bits because this is not gonna be case specific you can do this in any chassis and how creative you want to be with it how hidden you want to be and whatever kind of sequence you want is gonna be a hundred percent up to you and we decided to use this case because it's got the gauge in it the 12-volt gauge I installed back when I did that challenge accepted with Jerry like almost two years ago where we figured since we use this from an automotive theme might as well keep it going with this case so what we're going to be working off of here is the power switch would go from your front case button to your motherboard the one that's labeled power switch and pretty much every single case is gonna have one of these not all cases have reset switches but we want this to work off of the power switch so we don't have to take the front of the case apart or anything like that we're just gonna work off of the harness here now if you don't know how this already works when this plugs into the motherboard this basically when you push the power button bridges the 12 volt in the 24 pin to fire up the motherboard so what we're going to be doing now is we're going to be putting an interrupt in this circuit which is what this button is for so the wiring that we have here is just for us to build another harness for us to relocate that somewhere else so essentially we'll be teeing off of one of these wires so I can go ahead and kind of separate this like this and this is the part that's gonna be universal to pretty much any case so we'll give ourselves plenty of slack here so we can put that back obviously in the motherboard so you want to want to do it close to the end of the terminal or where it terminates you want to do it more mid harness that way you can keep it behind the chassis because if you truly truly are trying to do this as some sort of a deterrent then you're gonna want to put this somewhere where it's a little bit less conspicuous because here's the problem little J this this probably would work for her for her for a couple of times because she's smart enough to know like oh the power button isn't working is my power supply turned on and she's gonna come back here and look and if she sees a button she might go let's just say it's right here she might be like oh what's this that's weird I don't think she'll have the forethought to like push this and push the power button together but the first time someone sees e do it well then it doesn't work anymore so this is perfect for little kids they're gonna be coming up and pushing buttons on your computer and it would kind of keep the power switch from doing anything also to let's say you have a roommate or an older brother or a older child that's smart enough to potentially realize like oh they wired something in this computer that's not right that's why we're doing the black harness that we can run behind here that blends in and where I'm thinking I'm gonna put this switch is actually on the top underneath the fan filter so that we push down on the fan filter where we want the switch to be so that you don't see it at all so you can see I've already trimmed this wire here and what we need to do now is we need essentially attached to leads on to this that is what the heat shrink is for and the electrical tape normally I would solder this but I have my soldering iron and no solder and we already actually went to the store once today we don't want to go again that's how we went to get this switch if you're running where I got this switch I would say RadioShack it's out of business we literally went to Autozone into the ricer aisle with all the LEDs bought the cheapest one we could find that had this demo try me button stole this out of the package and then proceeded to throw the LEDs of that by the way because as soon as I opened up the package the LEDs fell apart and didn't work anyway so I paid nine bucks for this switch alright so all I did right here was just strip both ends of the wires the one that's on the power switch and then the the wire lead that we're adding like I said normally I would solder this cut the end that the excess off and then you have a little ball solder there but because this is not a stressed part I'm gonna be moving or anything it's not like in an engine bay this will get us by no problem but I am gonna heat shrink it though because I'm a huge proponent of using heat shrink over tape we're available because tape does get gooey it comes off I just put that over right there and this is what the flame is for at the heat shrink to do its job which is to shrink and as you can see that wire and going anywhere so we're gonna do the same thing on this other one over here look at that what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to put a bigger piece of heat shrink over this and create just a bit of a harness so that it doesn't pull out I'm gonna do it on both sides too don't hold the heat too long you don't want to melt the insulation that's on the wires there is our half of our harness so now we have these two ends that I'm gonna also sleeve because like I said I want these to really sort of blend in with the rest of the wires in the case and that doesn't matter which end of the wires it goes to because again this is interrupted circuit until you push the momentary switch which gives it a momentary circuit complete what you want to do with the sleeve though when you cut it it's gonna fray at the end so you want to take the heat and just hit it a little bit so it kind of melts like that when it's still kind of pliable you'll want to sort of straighten it out but you don't want to melt it to your hand I did that earlier so we want to go ahead and get our heat shrink ready for the next bit we're gonna do right here because we still have to get our actual harness sleeve on there and what we were going to do now is just we don't want to be fumbling with things because if you're doing this by yourself obviously it's gonna be difficult so we're gonna dude right now is we're gonna go ahead and put the sleeve on we're going to push it up as far as we can we're gonna get ourselves some extra slack that way we can solder our ends and then we'll pull it back and solder or heat shrink over the end of this so we'll kind of demonstrate that now so we're gonna put both wires through if I didn't measure this too too long should be towards the end when we get up to the top right here kind of gets a little bit more difficult as the wire goes farther down the sleeve there's more resistance the nice thing is if you need more slack you just go to the end where the wires are and you push it you see how you get that little kind of a inchworm kind of a look as you do that you kind of put the wires farther down as you can see we're all the way down to here I know hold that up out of the way something else we can also do I'll demonstrate that now is you can use a zip tie to kind of keep it from coming back while you're working with it cut the zip tie and then it will stretch back out so just to demonstrate that you can kind of push this up out of the way see how it sort of like crunches down like that just take the zip tie put this over the wires and zip-tie it down there we go like that make sense then when we're done you can just cut the zip tie just make sure you don't cut the wires underneath it so there's our harness so the idea is obviously not that you're trying to make it impossible for someone to turn on this PC you're just trying to make it harder right that's how you that's how you stop a car thief 101 is you don't stop them from being able you make it take too long to be worth their time if I'm gonna go and plug this in right now and test it for proof of concept so if this if I did my job right and I did this correctly pushing the power button should do nothing with it plugged in and then once I push my momentary switch it should bring that power switch to life and they just had to get creative on where you gonna put it nothing it's just you can see it actually or we could just use the voltmeter haha okay so nothing haha defeat kill switch like I said the start of this video I think I want to hide it under this so I'm gonna have to do a couple of things here I was hoping that the switch was gonna fit through one of these honeycomb openings perfectly but it doesn't it's like barely too big now it's a J video they put a nick in it but it also pulled up the case like it look at you guys shot with a bullet that's okay that'll work boom yes so all we did and it was Phil's idea is we just added some washers to the bottom of it and I use big flat ones that'll keep it flat and we can kind of control that angle now so the harness is gonna be out of the way I'm gonna put this fan back up in there which is going to perfectly block that view of it so you're not gonna see it that filters stick enough to where you don't see the button not to mention whose first thought is gonna go to look through the fan filter to see if there's a button keeping a PC from starting I mean no one's gonna do that everyone might now yeah and so that's what it looks like right unless you're looking at it straight down then I mean someone might be like what's that but they're gonna go like this that's weird they're not gonna go like this oh so anyway guys there you go that is your lesser than knowledgeable PC friend deterrent or heck maybe you just want to protect your extracurricular activities from your parents or your wife or your girlfriend I'm not a judge I mean you guys can do whatever you want I mean that's your computer but as you can see it's now flush mounted if you look at it from this perspective here because we put the harness and stuff on there you would never freaking know the only thing is now this case will forever only work with this switch so there you go just a fun little video I've got inspired by watching Chris fixes video and then remember what I used to install these on ignition systems all the time why not install one on a computer I think it seems like a practical use case do you guys have any suggestions for crazy content you know we like to hear them hit me up on Twitter comment down below and as always a huge thank you for 2 million subscribers we will see you guys in the next movie let me get another video until we hit 3 million so I guess were having like a nine-month vacation that's not asbestos it says worstest so that's how you do it I mean what is it