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I love this project, it's super cute. I actually put the STL's and models on GitHub, so feel free to make your own!

👍︎︎ 5 👤︎︎ u/VoidstarZack 📅︎︎ Dec 12 2020 🗫︎ replies
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Today, I'm proud to share a very  special, very personal announcement:   my video editor and I are adding  a little one to our lives. That's right, my gaming PC and  I are having a tiny gaming PC! [Baby crying] This is the Megalith, and she's more than just  a glorious rig. She's my beloved life partner.   Sorry, Brooke, your FPS is just too low. [Whip sound] Thanks to you, dear viewer, the Megalith has  been working non-stop these last three months   modeling projects and cutting videos.  As a tribute to her hard work,   we're gonna scale this classy lady down by  75% and build the cutest little baby PC. [Cuteness noises] But wouldn't you know, a bunch of doucheblasters  already BUILT tiny PC's, and my viewers deserve   nothing less than a truly innovative content-style  experience. So today, we're building an entire   tiny battlestation, complete with tiny monitor,  tiny peripherals, and a tiny desktop, atop a   tiny desk. So, let's fire up Fusion 360 and start  ripping off the first thing I see: the monitor. You can tell it's a gaming  monitor because it's black,   red, and edgy. We are going to copy its dark  and brooding aesthetics, but scale it all   down to fit this tiny five-inch LCD. We're  just going to make an adorable tiny monitor.   I started by modeling the monitor's bezel and  scaled it down by about, y'know, 81.4%-ish. The   touchscreen isn't going to work anymore because it  communicates with the Pi through the GPIO header,   but that's all right, because we're of course  going to add a tiny keyboard and a tiny mouse. Here's how this works: The LCD panel nestles into  the bezel, and this back plate locks it in with   four screws and captive nuts. My most intellectual commenters have [fart] tactfully [fart] notified [fart] me [fart] that the prints for my top-10 tools video look like stringy poo-poo butt [fart] and I'm tired of explaining that this  is not my printer, it's the time-lapse software. I decided to eliminate these boogers once and  for all by adding a sacrificial booger-sucking   wipe tower - which is an excellent  nickname for anti-maskers - to the plate. It turns out that the bond between a half-inch  thick cylinder of bootleg polycarbonate and a PEI   build plate is a fickle one, easily broken. I had  to pull a tactical retreat, print just the upper   part, and make some little sleeves to help glue  the two halves together. These little red feet   complete the look and make this an, oh my god,  just HYPER-CUTE perfect copy of my gaming monitor.   But this won't do. This desk is far  too big for this adorable bastard.   A tiny battlestation needs a  tiny desk. To the wood shop! Voidstar Lab is based out of my  hackerspace the Fat Cat Fab Lab.   Problem, is attendance is way down because  of the 'rona, but the rent isn't. The Fab   Lab really needs help keeping the lights  on, and if you have a few bucks to spare,   a small donation would make a tremendous  difference. If you're in the NYC area,   apply for a sponsored membership, which  is free to you but earns us grant money.   Links for both are in the description. If the  Fab Lab shuts down, Voidstar Lab is going to go   with it, so a donation to them is as good  as a donation to me. Anyways, tiny desk. I'm not a great carpenter... but  now I have a little woodworking!!! [Table flipping noises] This mini desk is way higher-quality than my  real desk, which I bought for $40 at Ikea and is   literally buckling under the Megalith's girth.  Adorable mini monitor, meet lovable mini desk.   Next up is the tiny mouse. I grabbed an old  Magic: The Gathering playmat. I'm never gonna   use that again in the United Plague of America!  I'm gonna cut out a mini mouse mat. Then,   I printed a teeeeny-tiny replica of my  mouse bungee, which is tool number 10 in   my top 10 list of 3D-printable tools,  link in the pop-up right theeeere... I just... bought the mouse. A tiny mouse needs a tiny keyboard. My  daily driver is an Ergodox Infinity,   which looks all bad-ass and hackery, but it's  really just a regular keyboard split into two   ergonomic halves. Closest thing I could find was  this home theater PC remote. It's ortholinear and   it has two thumb boards, but it's technically  not a split keyboard. Until I got to it. [Sawing sounds] [Can can music] I designed a 3D-printed frame for each  half, painstakingly spliced all 20   of those so rudely severed connections  together, wrapped it in some cable wrap,   printed some strain relief out of flexible TPU and  there we go, the world's first miniature Ergodox. We have tiny peripherals and tiny furniture to  put it on. It's time to turn to the business   end of this build, the tiny gaming PC. I'm  going to call this project the Coccolith,   which is a microscopic plate of rock formed by  single-celled algae. They arrange them into a   tiny suit of armor called a COCCOSPHERE!  It's all going to begin with the Pi. The heart of the Coccolith is the Raspberry Pi  4, in part because it's actually quite capable   for playing games, but mostly because VidIQ told  me that Raspberry Pi 4 is a high-value keyword! I   bought the 2GB version because I'm a cheapskate.  I bought a chunky heatsink that makes the Pi look   a lot like my motherboard, and will also help shed  the inevitable inferno when we redline this thing. [Initial D theme song, vaporwave remix] When you're designing a small project,  it's really important to plan not only   how it's going to look, but how  you're going to put it together,   right down to the fasteners. With so little  wiggle room, it's really easy to paint yourself   into a corner where you can't maneuver a part  into place or get an Allen key onto a screw. [REDACTED] I printed the main chassis out of more of that  fake-carbon fake-polycarbonate. The wee little   feet are printed in classy black silk PLA and I  just glued those on. I laser-cut little windows   out of acrylic with this slight green tint that  makes it look like tempered glass. Unlike in a   real computer, we don't have enough room to route  wires after the fact, so we have to be methodical.   First, we apply our thermal pads. We're  going to plug the cables into the Pi,   we DO NOT forget the pre-programmed SD  card, we mount the Pi and the heatsink   to the case. That's the lowest layer  done. Next up is dealing with the heat. Like the Megalith, the Coccolith will have five  intake fans, and even the fans are cute and tiny!   Life is too short to make you watch me tighten 20  screws, so let's finish the job Instagram-style. [Superfriends transition sound] HOW WHIMSICAL WAS THAT?!! Next up is the "graphics" "cards". I am using  "scare" "quotes" because these are not really   graphics cards. The Raspberry Pi basically already  is a graphics card. The Coccolith's teensy SLI   setup... is a pair of Teensy microcontrollers!  The top Teensy 3.2 drives the status display and   controls the fans. Bottom Teensy does exactly what  my bottom graphics card does - absolutely nothing. I really take pride in the Megalith's  liquid-cooling system. As desperately as   I would LOVE to put a tiny liquid-cooling  system in the Coccolith, tiny pumps and tiny   radiators are nowhere to be found. Instead,  I mounted these radiator-looking shrouds over   the fans and I bent some fluorescent  acrylic into bogus water cooling. Last part is the casemodding. The Megaliff's  case... Megalithfh... Megalithfs... smegma... The Megalith's case has notoriously bad  airflow through the front and top panels.   To keep the machine from imploding, I had to carve   holes with the angle grinder so I could  mount these laser-cut acrylic grilles. What, do you think I have a water jet? Or a  friend with a water jet? Or a friend? Pfft- Well this time, I can design the grille  right into the Coccolith's shrouds!   The Megalith is wrapped in unconvincing fake  carbon-fiber vinyl, so I set the slicer to   put Hilbert-curve infill in the top and bottom  layers of my own panels, which actually makes a   pretty convincing imitation of imitation carbon  fiber! It's a fake of a fake. Baudrillard's   rotting corpse approves. I stuck some magnets  on the panel so I could just slap them in place. Apart from the built-in status light on  the motherboard, the Megalith has no RGB   anything. It is illuminated in 100%  old-school cold cathode fluorescent   blacklights. Nothing fakes fluorescent  lights like electroluminescent wire,   which phosphoresces when you pass 120VAC through  it, and they will give you a nasty shock. [TF2 "Nope" meme] Not gonna zap myself on film for  your amusement, I'm not ElectroBoom!   Anyways, I formed the EL wire into  these super-cute mini blacklights,   and I tucked the high-voltage driver under the  divider. I think this looks pretty convincing! Finally, the Megalith has a custom vacuum  fluorescent status display that runs on, you   guessed it, a Teensy. This thing shows heat, load,  and memory use, and when I reboot the computer,   it even scrolls through randomly-generated status  lines! I salvaged this VFD from an industrial   HVAC controller, but the cute li'l baby version  is going to use one of those super-small OLED   displays that I have left over from the Among  Us card swipe project. I will need to gather   the info from like nine different command-line  utilities that all need to be individually parsed   with regexes, and screw that! I'm just gonna use  data I already know: sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. That's it, we're all wired up. I mounted the  divider, attached those magnetic cosmetic panels,   and now there's only one step left to do. If  you're a stoic macho manly-man who's never   experienced strong emotions, you may not be  prepared for what's about to happen. Have   your cardiologist on speed-dial, 'cuz  this is going straight to your heart. I screwed in my very finest 0.25 millimeter  nozzle, I loaded up some flexible TPU, and I printed   the world's smallest cable combs, only  2.5mm thicc. It took hours of tweezing,   but I routed those wires into the  smallest, cutest cable raceway on YouTube.   Oh my god... I must contain the cuteness...  long enough to mount the back window...   and the front window... I just... I can't take  it anymore... it's all just... so... CUUUUU-- Say hello to the Coccolith, the adorable  miniature bebeh of the fire-breathing Megalith   that is editing this very video. Just like  its mama, no detail has been overlooked   to make the Coccolith the ultimate pint-sized  gaming machine, let's hoist it to the tiny table,   hook up the tiny peripherals, and... what's  this... oh no... the tiny backplane..! [Pitched-down NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO] Well, we built a tiny gaming battlestation.  What do you say we do some tiny gaming? First on the tiny agenda is Minecraft. This  comes preinstalled, so if it doesn't run   I'm gonna be flabbergasted. Woohoo!  Minecraft Pi runs buttery smooth,   and although we can mine, uhh,  this does not let us craft. What we can do is use Python  to instance 400 blocks of TNT   and set them off with a bow and arrow. I'm going to grab a snack,  this could take a few minutes. The Raspberry Pi is going to look  like an ashtray when this is done... After the dust settles, we've blown out  a cavern the size of your mom. Zing! Next question: Does it run doom?  The port is called chocolate doom,   because it is not vanilla doom. We  launch our .WAD, and there we go,   kicking demon butt Carmack-style. I regret not  making a set of tiny speakers to play the tiny   Pantera covers, but then I'd be worried  about getting a tiny copyright strike. Last challenge is going to be  the hardest: Can it play Crysis? I installed PlayOnLinux, I loaded WINE, and guess  what: My SD card is 8GB but Crysis is seven.   That is the stupidest reason something can't run  Crysis ever. So the best thing I can do is use   Steam Link to stream gameplay from the Megalith.  It does actually work, and it's responsive enough   to play, but for some reason, it's... the picture  is upside down. So will it run Crysis? As of now,   no. Will it PLAY Crysis? Absolutely. Technically  correct, the very best kind of correct. And that is all about my tiny computer. If you  enjoyed this episode, please consider giving   the Fat Cat Fab Lab a small donation  or apply for a sponsored membership.   Links to both are in the description. [Singing] Wanna build your own   itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny 3d-printed RasPi  PC? Links to STL's are down there below! If you've made it this far, you may be  interested in the official Voidstar Lab Discord,   coming soon to a full-size chat program  near you! Hit subscribe to stay in touch,   mash that bell to get sucked back  into this rabbit hole in a later date,   thanks so much for watching,  and I'll see you in the future. [smooch]
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Channel: Zack Freedman
Views: 612,773
Rating: 4.8747492 out of 5
Keywords: raspberry pi 4, raspberry pi 4 projects, raspberry pi 4 gaming, raspberry pi 4 gaming pc, raspberry pi 4 gaming pc build, 3d printing, laser cutting, soldering, battlestation, pc gaming, pc master race, pc gaming setup, crysis, minecraft, does it play crysis, doom, raspberry pi 4 model b
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Length: 11min 43sec (703 seconds)
Published: Sat Dec 12 2020
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