 A month ago we were requested, nay, challenged to build a PC for the incredible Martin Mullen of Wintergaten and Marble Machine fame. And I say challenged because Martin's Marble Machine adventures are not only creative, but incredibly well executed. So we couldn't build just any PC, and we're not. We are building him a wooden PC, and for once we have a plan. Not a very good plan, but it's a plan nonetheless. And thanks to SolidWorks, we are going to turn our plan into a reality. You can now get 3D experience SolidWorks from makers for just $99 a year. It's actually pretty sweet, and you can check it out at the link in the video description. It's currently Tuesday, and by Friday this nice stack of birch plywood needs to become a PC. So how exactly do we plan on doing that? Let's come on over here. So we've been working on this model for the past like month on and off, and here's our PC. It looks a lot like the Marble Machine. The plan overall is pretty decent, I think. We've got these gears here that should be operational. These ones will kind of go the wrong way compared to each other, but whatever, that's fine. And you might be thinking, how the heck are you going to repair this? Well, watch. Bam! Go wing doors! Look at that! All of our components are in here. It's actually quite a compact system, I have to say. Now, given our amount of time, we could spend the next, I don't know, day, two days getting everything absolutely perfect in the SolidWorks model. Instead, we're just going to start building, and when we find something that's wrong, we fix it. I think I want to cut this gear first. One thing that's new in the shop is this laser. It's bigger and slower than our last one, but it'll hopefully be just fine. Lasering is kind of more of an art than a science, and in talking to Colin, his guidance is, if it lights on fire, change the settings. So that's basically what we're going to do here. I think most of it went through, but I'm not confident that all of it did. Let's just see. Barely. Once we have our settings dialed in, the idea is to just hook down a piece of plywood, and everything we want to laser, we just do in one go. It just runs for like two hours, and at the end, all of our components are done. Don't even need to open it up to know that that one worked way better than the other ones. What ended up solving our problem was, instead of focusing the beam at the top of the board, we focused it kind of halfway down. So like, you know, a laser has a beam that's kind of like a cone, and so by focusing it so that the cone is in the center of the board instead of the top, we were able to get all the way through no problem. Look at this. Our first proper gear. From here, Sebastian is going to be helping doing all of our lasering. Tynan on the right there is going to be doing the CNC stuff, and I unfortunately have to do welding. I'm really bad at it, so we're not going to film too much, and when it's all ground down and okay, we'll show you it. If you're not familiar with these angle finders, they're friggin' awesome. You can pick them up at Canadian Tire for like 15 bucks. It allows you to just verify things, like that's 45 degrees. Beautiful. Now we get to do that cut, like 16 minutes. Like 16 more times. We do lots of dumb sketchy things around here, but this is pretty up there. I wanted to take this stool to sit on it while I weld, and it's holding up our paint booth table with this clamp. That's great. Okay, well yeah, sure. It's fine. All right, go to stool. You know what, I said I wasn't going to show my welds, but screw it. Given that I haven't touched the welder really since the Pyramid PC, I'm happy with these. They're not too bad. I know if I put this on a welding Facebook group, they get really mad, but like, just be happy with the welds you got. As impressive as it would be if our PC played the Marble Machine song, it does not. Unless you count loading up a YouTube video. Then it can play the whole thing. If it plays a YouTube video, then it can play that song and many, many more. So this is what we're trying to make. Trying, you say? Well, today we're trying. By the end of tomorrow, it'll be done. Okay. This is our motherboard tray right here. Everything is built off of that. Isn't that gorgeous? It is. I love it. I like our new laser cutter. Step one is to install our threaded inserts into our motherboard tray. These are pretty cool. They've got threading on the outside, which is coarse for wood. And then they've got threading on the inside, which will be perfect for our standard PC motherboard standoffs. Let's just hope that we don't split anything as we're going in here. X570 Creator from Asus. This thing's got basically everything you could want. 128 gig RAM support up to four Gen 4 M.2 SSDs. DisplayPort injection for the built-in Thunderbolt 4. That's super cool because it means that whatever kind of hub you run over any distance, you can just have a full resolution monitor that's driven by your discrete GPU, which in this case is going to be a Quadro, which is a lot better than your onboard graphics, which we won't even have on this machine anyway. And most importantly, it fits perfectly onto our standoffs, please. All right. Before you do all of that, do you want me to save you a step? Oh, yes. Yeah, you should probably put the CPU cooler. Oh, our motherboard tray doesn't have a back plate. Yep. Or well, a punch out. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. You don't want a hole in your song because then you wouldn't have the whole song. Man, this is going to be a gorgeous machine if these renders end up being a reflection of what it actually looks like. I did a proper render too. So you're telling me all the other renders are not proper, like when you rendered the sketchy heatsink. Yeah. Wow, you did do a proper render. I hadn't even seen that one yet. Yeah. I like it. Do you remember single slot GPUs? Only in Quadros. Because I remember. Look at that. Tra la la, she fits. So that's how we're accounting for the PCI covers. Yeah. Wow, it's like right there. It's like perfect. It's like actually perfect. Okay. So this needs, well, you're not going to like what's going to come next. Oh, we need the cutter to cut us PCIe slots from that case right there. Oh, that's fine. Do you want to do the honors Linus? Everyone gets mad when I use power tools. Why this super cheap case PCIe slot thingy is really good is because instead of having like, you know, how they normally have those nice like curves and stuff, right. In set, this is just flat. They actually simplified the bending of the sheet metal that they use to make the case, which is perfect for our uses. Yeah. Boom. Nice. Well, other way. Yeah. There. Also, no. Basically like that. But we're not flat enough yet. No. Do I have it in kind of a good spot to go flat? Like, I don't know, you're just hocking in the bison going. Oh, wow. I think you're thinking about this too much. Oh, I think thinking about it a little is not a terrible plan. This doesn't even account for seven PCIe slots. I don't think that's fine. Our motherboard only has six. Well, you left all seven on here. So there's your problem before you cut anything. Let's think extremely carefully here. If we line this up here and we mark it, we can probably save ourselves a little bit of back and forth. And that right there is where it needs to be then. So we just chop off the slot. Uh, yes. I don't know what quality of steel this is, but it's probably somewhere between toast and cheese. I think I know roughly where this bend needs to be and where we can chop it. Please do not break. It would appear that this is working. One of the most important things we have to remember to do is to pre-drill literally everything. So if we just hook a screw into this, the wood's probably going to split and this whole piece is ruined. You can just hear the wood wanting to split as this goes in. It's so close to the edge. You might notice that there are two screw holes here that we drilled. Then we realized that those are going to butt up against the motherboard tray. So we can't use those. They'll just be like pressed in by the motherboard tray. That's awesome. Yeah. So we're going to put a little bit of a little bit of glue on it. We can't use those. They'll just be like pressed in by the motherboard tray. That's awesome. Yeah. I mean, it's really hard to install screws in your cards, but oh yeah, that sounds like someone else's problem. Yeah, it's going to be terrible. We need to pre-drill all of these. Yeah. Yeah. Then we'll put down some glue and screw it together Okay. What are we using? Uh, screws. Well, yeah. It's going to be solid as L. Really? No go to L-linus? If I thought of that, I would have said it. Go to L-linus. I don't know if I want to give it any more than that, Alex. Yeah, that was kind of scary. Yeah. Okay. So we can install the Quadro now then, right? Yeah. Heck yeah. I'm going to need you to kind of compress it a bit while I try to get this in there. Can we get a hand? Yeah, can we get one more hand? We need to push the back of the Quadro. Or lift it up a little bit because it keeps pushing the screw. Okay. It's lined up. Now I just have to find a way to turn the screw. This is horrible. Wait boys. I think I got it. It's in. I want to be clear that repairability was something that we tried to design into this. Apologies, German car makers, when people get mad at you for dumb things that you do like this. Yeah. Bottom. But uh, uh. Here, right? Yeah. Okay. Bottom me. Oh, hey, we got some shout outs here. Really? You shouted out yourself? I did. Well, yeah, he did. Oh, okay. It's the designers of the case. That was very kind of you. Thank you. Let's get the screws in here. Why don't we do, there's a power one of those. Uh, because I'm scared of powering that. No way. I got this. Don't worry. What could go wrong? Is this even going to fit in here? That's what she said. How many LMGers and guests does it take to build a box out of wood? Building a box out of wood is actually not that easy. It's incredible the things that woodworkers do. How much wood would a woodwork work if a woodwork could work wood? So this is the final one. We're screwing it in. This is it. It's go time. Um, I guess so. I guess so. Don't sound too confident, Alex. So let's get this corner. Perfect. Let's go screw, screw, screw, and we'll go from there. Okay. Watching nerds build boxes, standing on stools. Hello, OSHA. Do you want to take that off of the drill setting? Nope. I like the drill setting. Oh yeah. It's not your two days of work going into these. Hey, touch it. Is it perfect or not? It's not the perfectness that I'm concerned about. It's all in the wrist. You let the torque carry the arm and then that that's what absorbs the stoppage. If only there was something that could do that automatically for you. Look at that, man. It's a computer dog. What do you mean it's a lot sturdier than you expect? Of course it's sturdy. It's like it's made of wood. Let's attach the fans. Um, the sticker. We could remove the sticker for a clean look, but what we might end up with is residue we can't take off. I can pretty much guarantee that this fan is older than my children. So I vote leave it. I think it's going to be very difficult to remove cleanly. He's going for it. It comes off actually very mostly cleanly. Oh, okay. No, there's residue on it. That's the word for it. It's a German word for being able to remove the sticker from there. It's a rich language. It can't possibly be there can't possibly be a word just for that. I believe you. I guess we need nuts. Which nuts? One second. You can only tee them up so like beautifully. I needed to pick them up. Okay. D's nuts right there. Let's get our D15 installed. And this thing is just, it looks like it means business, you know? Do you think you can get the RAM in there? No problem. Uh, yeah. Ooh, 64 gigs. 3200 probably what like C16. Yep. Nice. What's the wrong word? Prime PX 1000. Not bad. 1000 watts, baby. Do you put the storage in? No. Oh crap. Here? These might take away from lanes that would otherwise be PCI Express slots and stuff. I'd have to double check the manual. What about we stick it in here and I fix it tomorrow and put it in the other one? Yeah. And we'll have footage right now of me fixing it so that you know that we're not lying. Sure. Oh wow. Two terabytes of m.2 and another four terabytes of two and a half inch. Do you have any two and a half inch mounts? You're going to go get the tape. Ah, no. I love these things so much. I know, right? These TULIS m.2s. Amazing. That might be a little fast. We might have to put a little resistor in there or something. Now, obviously I'm not the only one who wants to see how fast it spins at 12 volt, right? Wait, was that 12 volt? That was 12 volt. Oh, I had it wired up wrong. So I guess we can plug it into the 12 volt and have a pot and it'll be perfect. That's the way to go because it won't start at five volt. There's just too much mass, too much inertia. 5900X, all 64 gigs of RAM detected, storage device detected. We haven't plugged this one in yet. Everything's looking good. This thing is sick. Yeah. Good job, you and Tynan. Shout out to SolidWorks for their gear toolbox. Made making those real easy. I want to go back to 12 volts. That's pretty loud. CPU go brrrr. Oh, you can hook it up to the temperature of the CPU. Oh, that would be so cool. I mean, we could do it with a relay and an Arduino or something, but to do it simply. We have some, yeah, some transistors. So we could just hook that up to the PWM and the 12 volt. That would be super cool. Also super annoying. It's a little loud. Yeah, it's pretty loud. That's the best part. I love how stiff this thing is. It's so jangly and clackety. To finish this PC, there's loads we need to get done today. So we have to cut the top panel, glue the ribs together and sand them down, weld the frame, paint the legs, get the front I.O. attached, attach the feet so it stays nice and level, add a gear switch so they don't just run all the time and also do a fan curve for them. We need an SSD bracket so it doesn't just float around. Decided that the double-sided tape isn't a great idea. Attach the hinge, attach the latch, and finally install windows. Hope we can get it done. So it's what? It's a 530. Linus isn't here. He's doing WAN show right now. He couldn't join us, unfortunately. Now, this right here was our beautiful idea for how to make it repairable. So it has this wonderful hinge, these nice ribs, lots of airflow through here. Problem is the heads of the screws are hitting each other. So instead of going flush, it's sitting proud like that. I have a couple of possible solutions, including a lot more grinding and mostly a lot more grinding. So we took out some screws, and apparently it works now. It didn't quite feel like it was getting caught on one of the screws when we were putting it together, and either one of the bolts, one of the screws we took out, was the actual problem. I think it got caught on the cable on the top. Yeah, it very well may have been resting on something that we just weren't seeing. So we'll start putting screws back in until either they're all back in, or it starts interfering again. In the CAD, we put a nice little hole in the bottom to run the cabling up. However, when we were going through it, we ended up not actually cutting it out on the router like had been intended. Unfortunately, there's kind of a computer in the case. Who would have thought? Yeah, I understand why everyone always says, okay, make sure everything's ready and don't build in the case until it's done. I blame Linus. Yeah, I blame Linus too. But also, this is going to be an interesting time. Oh, one more thing. Can we put a piece of coal in your butt? I want to make some diamonds. Here we go. Oh, let there be smoke. And let there be smoke again. And with any luck, hey, we're through. All of this could have been solved if we had just cut the hole on the router in the first place. I can just pass through. All right. So Martin, I wouldn't entirely trust these screws. They're only half an inch long. It's probably fine. But like, you know, lift it up, supporting everything. Don't just like carry it around by this, like that or something. Yeah. To hold this whole thing down, we have this very nice latch. So one side, other side, you know, clips together, something like that. It's pretty neat. Problem is, it was supposed to go on the bottom of this. And then this side goes right there. So it goes down and it's in way too far. There's this horrible thing called tolerance stack. And if you're an engineer, you probably just shuttered. So it's basically where there's a whole bunch of dimensions. And if you get all of them, just a tiny bit wrong, it can add up to this instead of being like, you know, flush out here, it's in a half an inch because, you know, you lose an eighth of an inch back here and eighth of an inch right there and eighth of an inch in here and eighth of an inch right there. Next thing you know, it doesn't work, which means what we have to do is I put my hands through the power supply hole, hold it right here. This is now a lifting hole, not a latch hole. Please work, I swear to God, I'm going to home either way, but like... Oh, it does the thing. Yeah, it did it. It's latched. It is now Monday. We were hoping to have the PC done by now, but it's not. But it does need to be done by the end of the day. So I'm going to LA. In a couple hours, this should look really good. We printed off this nice little holder. And so now you can just hopefully find a place for it and screw it in. With the help of about 50 zip ties, this is looking not too bad. I'm really sorry, Martin, for whenever you want to upgrade this because it's going to be a nightmare getting all those cables out. It's going to look good though. Oh yeah. Hell yes. See if we can get into the bios here. There we go. That's a bit more chill. Oh, just the switch work. Nice. You don't want that on all the time. Now let's just hit it with a Cinebench run. And with any luck... Yes. The gears start moving faster when the computer's working harder. That is frigging sick. Okay. Let's turn that off. They're a little bit loud. I think you can get a graphite powder. That'll quiet it down a little bit, but that's not my problem anymore. So Martin, I really hope you like this thing. It was a metric f**k would have worked. And I'm sorry that this is your first PC coming from Mac. I'm sorry that I'm not going to be able to get it to work. And I'm sorry that this is your first PC coming from Mac. It's not going to be the easiest to use, but it is going to be one of the most sweetest. Also huge thanks to Yannick, Sebastian, and Tynan for all of the work that they put into making this more like a piece of art than I ever could have done on my own. And huge thanks to SolidWorks for sponsoring this video. I really like their maker stuff because I can now do videos like this and you can afford it. 3D experience SolidWorks for makers allows you to get SolidWorks for $99 a year. That's basically the whole deal. So you get SolidWorks professional 3D CAD, just like we've been using for years, and it runs on windows with optional cloud storage available. 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