A Half-Baked Desktop - Cookie Tin PC [Part 2]

At long last, this is the long awaited second part to the Cookie Tin PC saga! Will this thing run or is this project not ready to come out of the oven yet?
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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Boot Drive woes
2:53 - Is this even worth it?
5:24 - More Drive woes
6:32 - Has the solution been found?
7:26 - The solution arrives?
11:14 - Standoffs!
13:57 - Ports
17:45 - Snip
19:30 - HOLES
20:33 - ASMR
22:03 - Testing the ports
24:33 - The PC is IN THE TIN
28:43 - Testing the Cookie Tin PC
31:51 - Results and Outro

[@bigdickdude007]

It's 3:31 am in my country , can't sleep

[@JAM35_]

what country are you in?

[@shubhamraj2174]

2:27 here

[@denivil]

2:00 am for me

[@feirceflame9302]

2:46 here

[@rantzntirades1104]

There's a bug in line 644.

[@glasseffect]

DisplayPort is the PC standard that is royalty free. Many new monitors don't even have HDMI, but DP.

[@FrontierGD]

I just want to let you know you are possibly my favorite tech channel on youtube and the most underrated one, hope you get popular in the future

[@itstheV01D]

same

[@Austinblogz]

I like the fact that you are very creative to your solutions i highly recommend this video out of all the other creational videos I've watched! And not to leave out the fact that you kept going on this project even when its been like 1yr in 5months it really tells me that you are probably very motivated on this project!

[@pieseek4968]

WOW! I was watching part 1 yesterday and it got me thinking when you gonna upload part 2 🎉

[@pbscatcher]

man I found your channel 2 days ago, i’ve binged all your videos, they’re AMAZING! I hope you get 100k subs soon!

[@Kurayams]

this is a really cool project and i would like to stay till the end, keep it up

[@MyHistoryAndGeography-hf5qe]

the quality of your videos are insane. You deserve more views

[@kooldudeno-lastname]

I stumbled upon your channel, and I'm glad I did. I really like your editing style! also the ideas are really cool!

[@DistrosProjects]

Btw, you should get a WiFi card with 2 antenna ports to support 5GHz WiFi. They shouldn't be too expensive in the correct form factor, although HP's BIOS might prevent use of it.

[@koigoi]

frokfdrk, you should cut some slits in the opposite side of the tin of where the exhaust is so that the tin actually has an intake. it's going to only pull in air from the ports otherwise, which isn't something you really want. also, for the Ethernet. you should still be able to cut into the top of the tin and still br able close it. you aren't gonna cut that much out it to fit, right? so why not? It's just gonna take some careful effort on your part. ALSO ALSO, good luck!

[@Alcharls]

Really enjoyed both parts and looking forward to an update. I have a very similar board from another HP laptop and I plan on using part of the shielding behind the board to fix it to a box or tray and you’ve showed me a really nice solution.

[@dabois012]

i love your videos, hope you get to 10k soon!

[@WINDOWSXP9013]

The cookie tin pc is the best craft I have ever seen!!! W frokfrdk!!!

[@WINDOWSXP9013]

Thanks for the heart :)

[@crazychickengd]

"itty bitty tiny desktop" my dell optiplex 3060 mini which can fit in the palm of my hand that I use as a Minecraft server:

[@goldenyoshi924]

It runs cooler with the lid on, and that makes sense, as the air is going throughout the tin and not going straight out the top. Don't know about the temps when it runs for a while, but a great series none the less!

[@raytan996]

I love your vids Keep posting!

[@suioganwilliam]

I watched the first part yesterday, perfect timing

[@tigersusyt]

Hope that part 3is sooner!

[@ap98769]

Great Video !

[@Therandomofaviation]

I was waiting long for the next part.

[@LakoIsFun]

About the WiFi, a plastic area on the case would most likely solve the problem. If you look on many metal devices like phones and especially macs, there's usually a plastic area for the antenna.

[@samuelrowling]

this channel is a hidden gem!

[@gabest4]

I have a few of these we can't throw it away because grandfather made it things.

[@Norieu]

finally a part 2

[@xtrabaka]

"laides and gentleman, this is paper" my favorite line in the entire video

[@BaTTx]

if its made for shoving it somewhere and remote connecting into it you could use it as a server!

[@frokfrdk]

Yeah pretty much

[@terrawest9500]

Great video.

[@ETORERIGO]

Imagine going to your grandmas house, and seeing an cookie tin, and you open it and see.... an desktop.

[@table124]

yay my favourite youtuber uploaded

[@shanemoore6420]

Great video and thanks for the update Just a few suggestions if it helps. Furniture pads underneath and holes for intake. I would of used antistatic Kapton tape or even line your tin with electrical tape, instead of standoffs especially on smaller parts. Maybe some short flat extensions could help with ports. Maybe small drill holes and filter for exhaust rather than cutting that big slot. Loving your videos

[@incipfer]

Common practice by manufacturers for extra long flat ribbon cables is to fold them. There are also adhesive backed nylon stand-offs, but I think they're a bit taller than the hex stand-offs.

[@notniko6914]

VERY UNDERRATED

[@r3n846]

You might be able to use some of the vertical space for a battery. Disassemble the old one, see what you can do.

[@unapthype]

more people should know about this channel

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[@TheRealScottMusic]

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[@mdtaha8907]

how tf u have only 8.7k?????? super underrated

[@melih9745]

Nice dude

[@hilareous]

I'm sorry it's off point but GOD GNOCCHI IS SO FUCKING ADORABLE

[@xXKisskerXx]

your going to need some place for fresh air to come in - so the extra hole where the Ethernet 'would have been' might be ok for this. - otherwise you deal with not getting enough cool air to the fan, to keep the CPU/GPU cooled off. It will pull air from any gaps it can find, but less restrictive = easier to cool. as for the wifi - you might be able to make your own antennae and use a thin layer of hot glue/super clear adhesive on top/outside of the case to protect it - as antennaes aren't really high-tech or anything, even just a coil of copper wire can boost signal strength. Now diameter of solid core wire, would matter, and you probably want it to look nice, so 'inlay' the wire as part of the cookie-tin art patterns would be pretty nice looking, and then it just goes into the tin and plugs in normally. I am sure you can find some videos on antennae to help that. The imagined idea is to like 'copper trim' the tin- to make it look even fancier, with a longer 'inside' connection to the wifi antennae so when you remove the tin lid - you have enough extra wiring to not pull on the connection, but detach it from the wifi module without breaking any wiring.

[@tigersusyt]

Yippee, finally!

[@olivierproroblox7118]

you should add an lcd screen to the tins lid and add a mini keyboard on top of the tin computer

[@Jimiscool88]

heyy i have an idea! try making a cutout for more cooling like the bottom of most laptops and also put the antenna like most phones for example the samsung galaxy J5 2017 it has it on the top and bottom and also acts as a design

[@David-gr8rh]

Idea for next time. Use a permanent marker, on the metal edge of each port wet and fresh marker press the board and ports into the inside wall, now you have mark outs, cut from inside perfect fit.

[@richcreedy4118]

drill a hole for an sma connector, and put an external antenna on, you can get pigtail sma connectors that will work on the wifi card

[@baconboi23]

17:32 why does the machine sound depressed

[@simonini21_]

Now you can say "This PC is cooked. It is done."

[@gentuxable]

DisplayPort is better in every way but these days HDMI is more widespread and good enough.

[@Romello_Pietersz]

FYI, It’s called a Flex cable bot a ribbon cable.

[@WolfworldEntertaiment]

NEW FROKFRDK NO WAY

[@georgemaragos2378]

Hi, Personally i would have use wood as it works easier and i would only use cheap hand tools But your idea was good. The tin is to thin, i know you wanted it light but it it to hard to work with The ports, i would have cut cut one large slot rather than cater for every port as it is to hard. When doing square cuts - try drilling each corner with a small drill bit eg 1/8th or 3mm , then draw a straight line with each corner hole and you can now cut out the square ( with nice rounded corners ) I might have not paid attention with the stand offs but i heard you say solder - but i would have used a felt pin, marked text holes in the tin base, then again stilled a small 1/16 - 1/18th ( 2 to 3mm ) , then just used a screw upside down on the bottom to secure the riser , and then another screw from on top of the mother board into the riser. Many years ago a damaged a 386/486 by using a uninsulated riser the base of the mother board had a tracer near the stand off and it shorted out - a spark and death - now i use oversided fiber washers on top of the riser between then base of the mother board The other option is not to use standard PC metal risers but generic plastic risers and self tapping screws Re - the wifi , drill a small hole and mount a external antennae Pretty cool overall - i have a dell laptop with damaged screen done to one of the hinges going stiff and after 2 years of hard to move the screen eventually cracked - the screen went in the bin but i retained the cover , it is now just a clamshell , and that laptop is now running linux mint and plug into a normal monitor - why ?? because i had paid for windows and office, and i bought a similar model , windows done a recalc and continued to work. Office was a bit more difficult , i swaped the mother board between the 2 machines the $30 replacement laptop was much cheaper than the @ $250 office 2016 licence i could have potentially lost

[@LinguisticMirage]

see you in 200+ days!

[@2048Megabytes.]

i remember i tried to turn an old dell vostro laptop into an all in one, but i mustve screwed up at some point because it doesnt work

[@myst1cplays302]

YOOOOOOOO FINALY P2 !!!!!!

[@HeyImRancover]

I just finished watching part 1 lol

[@azegyetlenczibi]

0:00 Waaaaaaiiit? This sounds familiar. Do you know DarkViperAU??

[@Dtr146]

Companies were putting display port on computers because it was cheaper. They didn't have to go through the certifications of HDMI and all that bullshit.

[@yourmomscott]

Nice

[@Radiiiiiiiii]

26:25 HACKINTOSH ETA SOON?!

[@ryankery5052]

You're cat is so cute!

[@AlmostBrokeLbs]

28:57 I had same problem, and I have never found solution, cuse I need to press fn+f1 keys on LAPTOP keyboard to enable wifi. Only way that I think I can do that is to find connectoions for fn key and f1 on keyboard connector and wire button to the pads of the connector on laptop mobo (laptop keyboard is broken) edit: oh you got lucky, and just needed a drivers :)

[@TheJoMan2]

26:27 should have turned it into even more of a mac mini

[@KRZYSZTOFMANIA]

I was wathing that film from 2022 and i got of fullscreen my top right a film with the buisciut box 4 h ago

[@arelyx_]

huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Kyermike]

you should've put the power button and adapter on the back

[@Foggy404]

My question is, why not just put the ssd ontop of the mobo? Using foam so it doesnt affect the mobo

[@frokfrdk]

Have you seen the positioning of it later in the video? It's literally perfect

[@genethebean7597]

I did basically the same thing in a notebook a couple years back. Oddly enough with the same motherboard. Shame that the A9 was such a miserable CPU experience

[@regav62]

The tablet vid and this are blowing up

[@senkosenpai3312]

nice

[@adamkoa]

Real guestion is... Can Cookie Tin PC run Crysis?

[@NicVandEmZ]

Probably would have been better to put Mac mini antenna in the cooker box

[@mayanktejas5106]

finally

[@bhai_m3048]

Short circuit warning!!!⚠⛈(Bare motherboard contacts on metal)

[@frokfrdk]

That's why I got standoffs for it shown in the video

[@kxppy2037]

maxwell the cat.

[@frokfrdk]

Gnocchi the cat********************

[@exylixr]

1,111 views, in 9 hours, I’m sure you will be famous I know it

[@Johnathan069]

mixing ram can give you performane issues or somethimes even bsod frok

[@frokfrdk]

I mean that RAM has been in there since 2016 back when this was my main laptop and it seemed alright

[@milesmalivuk9827]

That wasn't said temper twenty twenty two That september twenty twenty two is july twenty twenty three what the actual flip

[@Pleyer7575lol]

28:56 Install drivers

[@cphotos153]

How do you remote control a a pc or a laptop

[@losandroscoast]

Idiot

[@frokfrdk]

You can enable it in the Pro version of Windows (you can do it on home with some workarounds) and on a local network you just need the PC name and password in the remote connect app

[@cphotos153]

@@frokfrdk thank you

[@losandroscoast]

@@frokfrdk I'm mean 💀💀 cause duolingo been roasting me the whole morning

[@ItsP1Z3L]

😮

[@smileyface8124]

could you add a disk drive?

[@frokfrdk]

Too big

[@smileyface8124]

@@frokfrdk now looking at how much space is left, i agree

[@NotJohnTanner]

now hackintosh it lol

[@mattiasnilsson2406]

Använd en gammal radio antenn som du kopplar till wifi o fäll upp som en gammal radio från kakburken

[@radishattitude]

wheres part 3 its 2024

[@y2k04]

There is no intake hole...

[@frokfrdk]

one can be made

[@y2k04]

@@frokfrdk Can't wait for Part 3! :D

[@s9tech_]

Is anyone else hungry for some RAM?

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[@jiggilowjow]

ummm......good job ,?.... my guy. stick with it. never stop doing things that no one else is doing. one day your gonna make something amazing. its not exactly a bad idea.... but in all honesty its not exactly a great idea. but your doing it, thats the important part. your not lazy your doing your due dilligence. most of the sheepel wouldnt even try this. so cheers mate.

[@ExploringNew1]

Early!

[@Kyermike]

first

[@Xp_Hunter352]

sixth

[@musiyth]

The cutting part was cringe inducing