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excellent what's up guys welcome to the next Paul's hardware garage work log these videos tend to be a little rough around the edges so apologies in advance for that they also generally aren't quite as popular as my normal tech videos so if you are here for a tech video sorry this one's just me working in the garage but I do have at least a teaser for that system aisle guy right there the defined Nano s build because I do finally have all of the parts on order and on their way so I will be following up with some more work on that very soon so if you've never seen one of my garage work logs before this is all the stuff that I've kind of built over the past few months or yeah I guess year 2 this of course this wraparound desk that goes all around here with stands at various points to help provide support put all these tables I'm sorry these these shelves up up above on this side built this really tall um cabinet over here which which I'm really actually like then I got some additional shelving and a little workbench area and all that kind of stuff over there that I built for the presentation area over here I got as far as you know painting this nice boulder color grey on the walls which which i think looks quite nice but you might notice like you know the tops painted up here but the bottom down here is still the old gray color which is not as nice of a gray I also still need to finish painting along here you need to figure out the proper positioning for the dog beds because the dogs just come out here and pass out and you know they kind of get in the way here oh he's kind of snoring anyway this is what is as far as I got before which is plaster of Paris along this kind of unfinished edge along the bottom this was your irritating me because anytime I had a downward angled shot it would kind of get in there and it doesn't look nice at all of course it doesn't look that great right now for anyone who's wondering I'm not really too concerned about the floor at this point this slab was poured in the 60s and I know it's been sealed in the past it doesn't look that great right now but I'm either going to get a just an area rug to throw down here maybe I can just use here oh that could also be an option or I might go the like epoxy root or something but that's that's a large project that probably wouldn't happen until mid to late summer anyway I got to finish doing the plaster of Paris along this side and I also know that this isn't necessarily like the ideal solution for this there are definitely other options than plaster of Paris this is interior stuff but I think it's going to work for me and you can see where I was pained where last time when I wasn't like feeling like I was running out of time actually got a decent finish on there anyway I'll probably just speed through all this stuff since it's just spackling ish stuff and some painting along here and then I'll get to what is hopefully a little bit more interesting which is the installation of these LEDs decided to just pick up a kit from eBay since they're available they're in a very wide variety of colors and lengths these are actually five meter RGB LED cables and it's it's a double one so the power unit here has two connectors and that means that I can control both this one here and then there's another one still in the package with this little remote and this is a very standard remote that comes with a lot of the RGB LEDs but I'm I'm pretty flexible as far as what's is able to do and with five meters I should have enough to go from the very edge of this all the way along the back here and all the way along the back there I can also cut these strips just about every four or five inches which is also very convenient since I there again a little bit too long so I probably will need to cut one of the ends and I'll just be using some adhesive to put them back there and that will allow me to I can delicately step over the dog stop using this solution which is a power supply that I turn on connect it to my original NZXT hue which is what's providing this lovely kind of turquoise glow back there which again has been working for now but I kind of like the option that I have here with this one just in that I will be able to turn it on and turn it off control it and everything without necessarily needing a computer that is connected to or a separate power supply and then of course I can control the color on all on both really long strips at the same time so make sure that they will always match it so that's the plan guys and since the this is Tuesday morning I actually have a limited amount of time before I need to leave and go over to cattles for awesome hardware so I'm going to crank some tunes get to work and let's see how far I can get so that was probably just a few quick minutes of time lapsing for you guys and sorry if I was hunched over most of the time in a compromised position but you know I had to get down underneath the desk in order to get all this done but happily it is all completed now so here's the final tour the final results right now I have it cycling through all the different colors but you'll notice that of course I have the RGB LED strips which five meters is actually perfect length to go all the way along this back shelf and all the way along this shelf all the way over here to kind of what is the edge of my presentable set if you ignore all of the nastiness over there of course I got it on the lower shelf as well and now you might maybe get a better idea of why I really wanted to finish the painting on the underside before I did all this and that's just because these RGB lights shine more light down on that lower side and I felt like it was going to be pretty evidence if it was not painted or at least looking a little bit better than it used to now I will show you guys really quickly how I have this connected up over here again back it down on the other side so under here's where all my cable management is and right now I'm just using a couple Sigma's underneath here to kind of keep all the cables tidy it's not as clean if you're looking directly at it as some of the other options I've seen out there especially since Eid has sort of set the standard for this but since I do switch things around quite often I found it it's more convenient to have those so I can just pile the cables up in there anyway I have the power unit for this whole thing kind of tucked into this little Sigma unit over here and then it's running along back to behind my main streaming system over there that is so I can use the included remote control right here and then the sensor is underneath the desk but I'm I'm still able to point at it so you know you can switch to red or green or blue and using the remote here by the way or you can do silly things like jump I don't know I feel like I'm probably mostly going to use a solid color or the fade I don't mind the fade the remote wall so you let you speed it up or slow down or set some custom and custom colors here just using these so you can indicate you know how much red green or blue you want in there you know it takes a little bit of dialing in to get exactly what you want but um you know it's got most of the features that you'd want right off the bat be cool if there's a crawling thing that's that would be one nice thing for the NZXT hue plus what this would be a few more features when it comes to what you can do with the lights one other thing to point out as far as how I have it connected up here is that I did need to get a four pin LED cable extension so I ordered that because ahead of time since I knew I would need it so the two headers that come out of that unit over there I had to do an extension to get up here to this upper shelf in order to get that installed as well but I'm super happy with how everything has turned out I even did some straightening of my sound dampening panels over here so those are all vertical granted I did not go around the entire edge yet but you know we'll save that for a future garage work log maybe probably not but we'll see how that goes last thing I wanted to mention I guess is this area down here at the bottom and this did take quite a while putting all the other plaster-of-paris along this thing so I could paint it again that's not like perfect it's there's still some definite rough spots but it did allow me to paint that and make it a little bit more uniform granted the floor itself still looks pretty horrible but you know if I decide to epoxy that or something in the future it's going to be a massive job so I'll put that on standby for now and I think I think I might get a carpet just a something to put out here kind of tie the room together of course that would be nice to have anyway though guys that's all for this video thank you so much for watching really hope you've enjoyed it don't forget to hit the thumbs up button on your way out and leave me a like leave me a comment let me know what color you think I should set these two back here behind me since I have the whole RGB spectrum at my command I can dial on something that will match that feel pretty make everything look nice anyway thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time you