Videos - The Coin Bot

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00:00:00	hello everyone and welcome back this video is going to be similar to the one I posted yesterday where we take a little trip back in the time machine and I'll show you some footage that I shot back in July in this video I show you
00:00:12	how I designed and 3D printed a shelf that I put my coating laptop on here in the electronics lab I'm pretty proud of this design I really like the way that it is radially symmetrical around the center point here which means that I can
00:00:26	just print two of these and they will just fit together there so you can see that that rotates around like that and then the other one that is printed exactly the same way with just a different color on top and then you have
00:00:40	one much larger piece that you can then attach to the the monitor arm up there so that's going to go get mounted up here and then we'll be able to rotate that I'm going to go ahead and add some uh super glue to the center here down
00:00:58	this line and then we will squeeze these pieces together so that they are fixed permanently and that is probably way too much but we'll see what happens when I try to squeeze these together so you can see that they fit
00:01:15	together pretty nicely but I'm just going to take a pair of needle nose and squeeze them together just a little more tightly so I'm pretty happy with that it'll be flat when it dries we'll let the glue dry and then we're going to
00:01:28	stick some threaded into in each one of these holes and I'll do that with epoxy as I've shown in other videos I hate glue on my hands so before we get too far this up that is the finished product with the
00:02:28	threaded inserts okay so everything has had uh been allowed to dry overnight and you can see that it's plenty stiff now we got a little bit of glue here which is not
00:02:43	pretty I could sand that off but I'm not really that concerned about it I'm just going to leave it for now but uh overall I think it looks pretty cool on the back the threaded inserts have been glued in with 5 minute epoxy and again that's
00:02:56	been allowed to dry overnight the remaining thing to do is this monitor stand has a removable tray where you just unhook this little knob here this thumb screw and then this plate slides out now
00:03:21	that and that in turn can go right on top of that and you can see that all the holes line up with the threaded inserts I don't have any um other washers on hand right now so what I did was since I have a 3D printer I
00:03:39	just printed some this is basically what you end up with I made 15 washers even though I really only need eight pretty happy with the way those turned out the w washers are designed to really spread the load a little bit so that you
00:04:33	can distribute that and you get a much stiffer part in the end the only thing left to do is to attach that to the monitor mount and then you can see that the laptop just goes right on there one of the
00:05:13	advantages of this laptop table that uh or laptop ledge that I printed for a VGA monitor stand is that it has these hexagonal holes in it that you can use to zip tie the cables to so when you're doing your cable organization you can
00:05:29	just use that to zip that zip tie everything now one of the things that always has always annoyed me when I'm um organizing cables is that it's I will usually zip tie the cables all in into position and then realize I have one
00:05:46	more cable to put in so that always annoyed me one thing that you can do when using zip ties though is uh uh put them in backwards so if you look at this really quickly if if you go this
00:06:02	way if you put them in this way they will latch but if you flip it around and you put it in backwards like that you can cinch that all the way up
00:06:19	and notice that you don't hear any clicking that's because these little ridges are on the wrong side which means that you can just undo it very quickly which which is very handy when you are want to temporarily
00:06:32	hold something in place without permanently doing it once you have all the the wires in their final place then you can flip this around you can pull it apart just flip this around and do it correctly and it'll
00:06:45	latch so that's what I did here you can see that I flipped all the cable ties around so that they just cinch without clicking and that allows me to hold the cable temporarily in place while I'm working to make sure
00:06:59	that I have all the cables in in the run that I want before actually making it permanent the laptop looks pretty good up there I just have to secure it with some 3M strips and then the final step will be
00:07:39	to just get everything wired up okay but I think that's enough for this video this is day 14 of a 30-day challenge I've given myself to post a video to YouTube Every Day in the month of September and as always if you have
00:07:52	feedback about how I can build better 3D printed parts or make better videos please leave a comment down below but for now that's my two cents thanks for watching everyone have a great day and stay awesome