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here at the Linus Media Group opto mechanics and medical mood lighting research facility we firmly believe in pushing the boundaries of RGB technology and today you'll witness the fruit of literally several hours of planning behold our all-new electromagnetic Kurganov X device the Robo chair the be quiet pure bass 600 features a versatile design noise isolation and is optimized for different liquid radiator configurations learn more at the link below have you ever been sitting there in the dark admiring your RGB computer and thought gee why doesn't my chair also have our GB lighting well I was and I did so I sent an email off to cable mod and before I knew it a massive box of LED strips arrived at the office man I thought we were RGB crazy then those guys were all like get on my level anyway step one was to find a chair the one we chose for the job was the Vertigo 350 we hoped it's mesh backing would allow our lighting effects to shine through and the cool swoopy construction would give us tons of options for mounting our adhesive-backed RGB strips next we needed to pop open some packages and mock up how we thought the RGB strips might mount on the chair using our preferred method of mechanical fastening generic zip ties we tried a few different configurations finally settling on this this process helped us find the best routing for the strip's around the chair without ruining the precious adhesive which we'll need later on and without getting a bunch of extra wires cluttering up our build speaking of things we'll need later on though we hadn't quite figured out by this stage how we were going to power the lights so we tested the strip's the dirty way by having an RGB tail hanging out and connecting them directly to a motherboard looks fantastic I mean men could there be anything more beautiful on this earth I don't think so obviously though there are a few sub-optimal things about this method for example moving around is something that's nice to be able to do you don't want to risk tearing out your motherboard if you need to spin quickly and deal of a cat vomit situation and being able to put the side panel on your rig is an extra bonus so with those things in mind we set to work cleaning up the chair extra attention and care was taken to be sure that the adhesive on the cable Mod cables could hold on to the chair while bending around it's complex and seductive curves we used zip ties to help out wherever possible but in some places even those wouldn't be able to save us if the adhesive wasn't able to hold the strip's on learning from the mistakes we made during the mock up phase we upgraded the lighting setup at this stage to ensure that even where the Sun don't shine our chair wood we added a sliding with the only part of the chair left naked being the headrest the next step was probably the most difficult we needed to achieve Wireless operation initially we were thinking we'd try making our own RGB controller with an Arduino so to control each Channel we connected MOSFETs to the PWM outputs allowing us to adjust the brightness of red green and blue independently fun fact when the RGB strip was attached to our bench power supply we noticed that the power drawn was heavily color dependent we knew that blue light has a higher energy than red light but we were still surprised by how big the change in power was blue consumed five times the power of red anyway what we were hoping to achieve with this was to use two arduino z' one connected to the asus r a sync port on the motherboard that then sends data wirelessly to a second on the chair that syncs between the chair and the computer unfortunately while this would have been possible using XPS our arduino z' did not have the wireless shields and at this point we didn't have the time to spend waiting on them to arrive maybe the RGB chair will make an appearance with this upgrade at some point in the future dun-dun-dun anyway we settled on cable mods included solution for now this does waste some of the excellent work we did on the Arduino but it makes it simpler to use more reliable and much easier for our viewers at home to replicate so to power the strip's we simply velcroed a battery bank to the bottom of our chair then adapted the included 12 volt output wires to work with our cable mod controller sure a 23,000 milliamp hour battery bank might seem slightly overkill but come on man we're Linus tech tips and with this sucker on here you'll get an estimated 50 hours of RGB chair fun in between charges bringing us finally to the Oh oh crap we forgot our pre-flight check battery check connections check fat beats check totally unnecessary shirk we are good to go look at that I've got one right here we never we are never far from an I fix-it pro tect toolkit this thing is flippin awesome it includes the 64 bit driver kit which is held in place by freaking magnets I mean how cool is that it includes their prying tools their spongers their ESD safe 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