Laptop with side panel - DIY Perks

[Farden]

This is a really interesting use for old equipment (ipad screens and LCD panels etc) - I'd love to have the skills to build something like this for myself. Maybe Alex should build this for Linus

[Bismut]

It seems neat, but I'd like to see some stronger materials used (like aluminium sheets for the back panels) and the option to have it on your lap, I don't see this being all that practical.

[Lurking]

This is a really great DIY channel with lots of computer projects. 

 

The recent one one is adding side screens to a laptop 

 

[thekingofmonks]

Whoever keeps a posture like that while working probably dies from back pain during their sleep

 

[Dedayog]

34 minutes ago, Lurking said:

This is a really great DIY channel with lots of computer projects. 

 

The recent one one is adding side screens to a laptop 

 

100% agree, some of his stuff is just gorgeous as well as useful.

[Fredrick Ytitu]

The solution that Linus never knew he needed

[Lurking]

4 hours ago, Dedayog said:

100% agree, some of his stuff is just gorgeous as well as useful.

Yeah, calling it DIY is almost misleading. You could hire a professional and they would do something inferior 99% of the time.

 

His design and execution are just superb. You imagine Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates hiring him to solve a problem in their home setup. 

 

I wonder if he has to build multiple setups to refine the design or if that all are the first attempts and he just played it through in his mind that the first attempt already is perfect.

[DrkLrdChckls]

I've been watching him for the better part of a decade, and everything he does is up to an unbelievable standard. If I had half the skills he does, I would be a very happy person.

[Arika]

2 hours ago, Lurking said:

Yeah, calling it DIY is almost misleading.

Step 1 of any DIY youtube channel is to go into your workshop that has your $70,000 worth of shop tools.

[Lurking]

1 hour ago, Arika S said:

Step 1 of any DIY youtube channel is to go into your workshop that has your $70,000 worth of shop tools.

Anyone can buy tools. But you can't buy a wide array if knowledge and skills. What he does requires electronic, programming, woodworking, metalwork, plastic (inc 3D design and printing) and more. 

 

I bet he can design and build better with just a few simple tools than the average Joe with that $70K tool assembly.

[kumicota]

It's interesting that when Linus does janky things, like using a 70K CNC to do a bad cooler people likes it but a guy who spents months doing a cool thing, that is released as open-source unlike LTT DIWHY, gets flak.

 

Surely what he did was amazing and it's not something easy but at the same time he put effort on it unlike a lot of recent Linus videos

[Dedayog]

3 hours ago, Arika S said:

Step 1 of any DIY youtube channel is to go into your workshop that has your $70,000 worth of shop tools.

Spoken like someone who's never used a tool in his/her/their life.

 

If you think the price of a tool makes you handy...  

 

He could probably make something with a Swiss Army knife that you couldn't with his entire fab shop (assuming he has one).

 

[Arika]

Just now, Dedayog said:

Spoken like someone who's never used a tool in his/her/their life.

 

If you think the price of a tool makes you handy...  

 

He could probably make something with a Swiss Army knife that you couldn't with his entire fab shop (assuming he has one).

 

thanks for insulting me... and yes, he probably could, he's a smart man, but how do you misrepresent what i'm saying so hard?

 

Of course you can be handy without shop tools, but a LOT (and i mean a LOT, not just DIY perks) of "DIY" tutorials on youtube by these bigger channels, hell even beginner tutorials, always contain some massive machinery but they say "but you could also just do this by hand" but never showing how you would realistically do it, just like you "could" build a car by hand but it's realistic or feasible. i can't tell you how many """beginner""" tutorials i've seen that the person is using either a CNC machine, lathe or some other super specialised machinery that no regular person would actually have.

[Lurking]

if you look hard enough, you can find a flaw in everyone's work. Looks like people are very motivated to look hard...

 

Why don't the people criticizing show their work? I'm sure they easily make better stuff with just a stone and one hand tied behind their back.... 

[nekollx]

just droped on DIY Perks something all us tech heads can appricate a Framework PC based triple creen laptop.

just Wanted to share
 

 

[nekollx]

On 1/31/2023 at 6:44 AM, Bismut said:

It seems neat, but I'd like to see some stronger materials used (like aluminium sheets for the back panels) and the option to have it on your lap, I don't see this being all that practical.

fun fact its open source so you can take what he started and iterate on it!

[kumicota]

15 hours ago, Arika S said:

never showing how you would realistically do it

I wonder if you watched the video, the tools that he uses are a file, 3d printer and soldering iron. Everything else are his skill so yeah he showed you how to do it without using a 70K CNC machine

[Arika]

3 hours ago, kumicota said:

I wonder if you watched the video, the tools that he uses are a file, 3d printer and soldering iron. Everything else are his skill so yeah he showed you how to do it without using a 70K CNC machine

You know he's made more than this one video right?

[kumicota]

17 minutes ago, Arika S said:

You know he's made more than this one video right?

I know but I never saw him using a 70k CNC on his videos can you link one example.

[nekollx]

7 hours ago, kumicota said:

I wonder if you watched the video, the tools that he uses are a file, 3d printer and soldering iron. Everything else are his skill so yeah he showed you how to do it without using a 70K CNC machine

and releace the filrs free and open source, but sure, he never shows you how he did it

[Lurking]

Of course, someone with talent and drive got himself some good tools over time. Why would that diminish his accomplishment? Why are people holding that against him? 

 

Envy makes people s$$t on other people's accomplishments. 

 

 

[Dedayog]

9 minutes ago, Lurking said:

Of course, someone with talent and drive got himself some good tools over time. Why would that diminish his accomplishment? Why are people holding that against him? 

 

Envy makes people s$$t on other people's accomplishments. 

 

 

Eh, just let it go.  I'm sure the guy could make cool things with a fork and a sex toy.

 

Some people are just skilled.  I think too many people want DIY to mean "if you're terrible at shit and lazy.... even you can do this!!!"  DIY means, DO THAT SHIT YOURSELF!!!  Key word: DO.

 

You have to be able to DO.  Some people can't.  I couldn't do what he's done with Mythbusters lab even.  

 

 

[nekollx]

4 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Eh, just let it go.  I'm sure the guy could make cool things with a fork and a sex toy.

 

Some people are just skilled.  I think too many people want DIY to mean "if you're terrible at shit and lazy.... even you can do this!!!"  DIY means, DO THAT SHIT YOURSELF!!!  Key word: DO.

 

You have to be able to DO.  Some people can't.  I couldn't do what he's done with Mythbusters lab even.  

 

 

for example i tried to DO for several years recreating 90s toys wtith off the shlef part and moded advantages, even posted vids of the progress but when it calm to the final stage Soldering i always blew out the boards so now im tryingto fonf somone local who can solder

[Isuck Assimov]

Love this guy. Good source of projects if you're sitting on a big pile of old Laptops

[nekollx]

On 2/8/2023 at 10:01 AM, Assimov said:

Love this guy. Good source of projects if you're sitting on a big pile of old Laptops

**nervously looks over at my 3 dead laptops and 3 dead tablets**
Yeah but how common is that....