Gadgetory

I need to oh now this project has been a long journey oh hold on I think that's in the way it actually started that's back in February 2017 which come to think of it like why did it take so long for us to get a laptop charging cart so that we can keep our laptop batteries from getting damaged well you can't just send me emails in the middle of the night and expect me to conjure a laptop card out of midair oh right speaking of conjuring things out of midair thanks to be quiet for conjuring this sponsor spot there wait dark-faced Pro 900 features a modular design to support a variety of different layouts and configurations oh look at the link in the video description to learn more so in all seriousness though what did take so long well we had this vision of what we wanted but every commercial laptop cart that we could find either held too few laptops or it was limited to 17-inch devices which clearly wasn't gonna cut it for some of the laptops that we need to store so I'm sure by now you guys have figured out where I'm going with this maybe thanks to the huge proto K shipment that we're we just well actually we're getting ready to drag it outside for an outdoor unboxing but for the kings of overkill there was just no reasonable choice other than going with a fully custom solution from our BFFs over at proto case but Linus just build it out of wood Linus come on Linus no that's stupid if the note seven taught us anything it's that batteries sometimes very often but sometimes blow up so covering the kindling in a gigantic flammable box isn't really the best idea we want to stick with metal so after some brainstorming with Jake we refined our original concept and sent a package over to the design team at proto case apparently you can literally send them cellphone photos of napkin scribbles and they'll turn it into something coherent so that makes me feel a little better about the combination of technical CAD drawings and I see you not mspaint concept drawings that we put together huge shout out especially to Darrel over there for all of his help turning our designs into something actually usable especially since our original concept would have weighed over 700 pounds he made tons of great suggestions and dealt with the countless revisions and changes that Jake and I made without any complaining at least not to us now I'm not gonna lie this project didn't get done in the guaranteed two to three day production time of a typical protocol the design work ellone took up 42 man-hours almost five and a half working days and the fabrication of something this complex took a pretty significant chunk of time as well 46 individual pieces had to be cut with an industrial laser save for the right side panel which actually needed the CNC router treatment thanks to its 1223 cutouts the laser is actually so powerful it would just warp the crap out of something with that many intricate cuts then the cutters tend to leave some sharp edges and little shavings known as burrs so each part got a quick run through the de buri machines with large stiff bristles that polish the edges down a bit bringing us then to the glue of this build fasteners we did end up with a few welded joints but we tried to keep everything as deep constructible as possible so in total almost 260 individual fasteners were manually pressed into the sheets of metal these little guys are essentially threaded metal that screws can be well screwed into before moving into a cosmetics like powder coat the pieces were individually cleaned in gigantic vats of degreaser then dried in an oven because ain't nobody got time to wait for air drying then the real magic happens in the paint station where the powder coating gun is charged to one hundred thousand volt making the powder coat nice and electrically sticky for the metal pieces well let's uh why don't we you ready huh you ready oh I'm ready let's do this thing okay ready oh my god we got a court napier ritzy alright let's do this you think we're gonna take this whole thing apart with that little knife yeah okay I'm gonna get a bigger you know what I'm gonna have it done by the time you get back at Seoul there's no night so I have scissors scissors really these are titanium coated okay man this thing weighs like 400 pounds 400 and some change 400 and change but that's down from 700 see it's not about the actual weight it's about the improvement right this is incredible here we can see the custom full-frontal silkscreen job designed by Ed Yago himself this was no easy feat 20 separate screens were used for the design each requiring a tedious prep process involving burning the layouts into the screen and cleaning the burnt portions with a pressure washer and then that's all before you even think about applying the ink so this 400-pound beast got assembled and skin shipped across the continent to our office in Vancouver and it's time for us to charge some fricking laptops yeah okay yeah over on this side you can see there's six fans over here giving us air flow across the AC to DC Chargers as well as like you know if you have a razor blade for example and it just decides to like cook randomly wake up when it's supposed to be sleeping then this will keep it from boiling itself so should we grab everything else oh yeah we should take the stuff out first okay there's a lip on that one man this thing is solid yeah the doors are steel so they're like is this fan controllers like how do we power it and I was like NZXT oh you're just gonna okay well it's not that heavy anymore without all that roars inside it Oh hold on I'm slipping kind of a big deal Oh God did you lock this wheel dang it cheap why would you lock the wheel I was happy about how it locks okay okay slow down okay there's another cart there how's my parking job here how are we supposed to actually plug things into this top PDU oh cool that's a minor design oversight Jake here just so you guys can see what I'm talking about so these are intended to hold the AC adapters captive thumb screws exosome see yeah that was the idea and they're vented and they're aluminum and light we can customize it how we want so let's see if you can do this okay that's not very fun but yes it it can technically be done well just a power adapter it's fine oh wait well here do you want to pop the top and then rain drops drop top I got this you'd be fine okay maybe I don't it's custom Brandon guy so I don't mean I realize this is a supremely first-world problem but like we have a lot of laptops and right now they're all just sitting on the shelf essentially rotting because I don't know if you know this but if this charge is over time and then it can actually go bad if it sits there discharged or too long remember kids if you got too much discharge it's always a bad thing that would have been not that bad until you prefaced it with remember kids how is this thing Dora oh my god math questions does this have like an ExpressCard why are we even bothering to keep this thing alive I hate these stock cable ties they're trash it's just garbage so this is the water-cooled laptop the laptop can go in the card and then we'll just put the watercooler like next to it okay no okay yeah okay just just give it to me devices like this we should really charge and stuff what is that they're cool yeah when are you ever gonna use this well never which is exactly why we need to be charging it so it doesn't die it's basically just a smartphone with a fat keyboard yeah yeah wow that is something honestly like half the laptops on the bottom I've only got one is this 5 6 7 8 laptops down here I've got like 12 power bricks I can barely even put like so it takes up like this much space up here proto case we're gonna need a rev - Rev - I actually don't know how many laptops we have so I'm about to find out 1 & 2 Verde laptops plus when Joep up + people who have laptops deployed to them I have 2 all the writers have one each we probably have like 40 to 50 laptops why well whatever the reason for it is we finally have a safe place to store them everything from the thin and lights on the top to the sort of like gaming models in the middle / you know powerful models like the Mac Pros here MacBook Pro rather to the completely over-the-top ridiculous ones huge shout out to proto case for sending this over to us if you can imagine it proto case can pretty much build it how heavy is this thing now like this is it this is a hard rubber tire ting is the mobile carrier that's focused on customer satisfaction when you call them you speak to a real person not an automated phone tree and you only pay for what you use with the average ting bill under $25 per month per device you don't have to kind of guess if it'll work for you though you can go over to linus ENCOM we'll have that link below and use their savings calculator enter your last few bills and how much you paid for them and it'll spit out whether you'd save money on ting then when you 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