Custom Cyberdeck For (Legal) Satellite Hacking

[@MrM-mt4bv]

This guy is 100% on a watch list

[@mattiskardell]

just like all of us

[@cadmiral3d146]

Now so are we.

[@pranavranganath7192]

welcome to the watchlist boss

[@jukeboxfandango]

The beard alone got him on a watch list

[@AGTheOSHAViolationsCounter]

Just one? Pfft being on one watchlist is like being in kindergarten. Try being on DOZENS of seperate agency ODND(Observe, Do Not Detain) lists throughout the Western World then get back to me, да? Lol (Hi 👁👁👁👁👁's! How's it going guys? 😅)

[@RamenPoweredShitFactory]

A Cyberdeck built out of a cop car computer to spy on satellites? Probably the most cyberpunk thing I've heard in a while.

[@provenancemachining]

This is probably the most bootleg shit, cobbled together, hacked up cyberdeck I've ever seen and I absolutely love it. I'd love to see more on satellite & radio astronomy for beginners.

[@jesseraymond423]

After all.... It's what Russia thinks they have such a EDGE on us western NATO blokes with... Same shit lol

[@chriscastro9402]

Lmaoo who let him cook 💀💀💀💀

[@bluepinetxmedia-josepescad7649]

Midwestern modesty in play - bootleg at its finest

[@alienonline8]

En 2000 con un grupo de amigso pudimos conversar con los astronautas de la iss era un ruso en ingles, era antes cuando se permitia, ademas pudimos escuchar las tormentas de jupiter, bajar imagenes de satelites y balizas de satelices .Saludos desde Argentina

[@user-iv7gf2lw6g]

@@alienonline8 how man?🤯

[@KiraSlith]

The most cyberpunk'd entropic cyberdeck ever. brilliant. 10/10

[@ecardozo7043]

He also looks cyberpunk, he belongs to 2077 for sure.

[@fabricio4794]

@@ecardozo7043 he reminds me a sorta of Apeman from the Future or something....

[@lemonblazer123]

This is a quintessential Save It For Parts video. It's got junk, it's got technical problems, it's got eclectic hardware, and it's got custom made parts! Probably one of my favorite videos on a long list of my favorite SIFP videos. Great stuff!

[@saveitforparts]

Thanks! Glad you liked it! It's been one of my favorites as well, even if it took forever to get done!

[@thedesolateone8260]

@saveitforparts Ime a 45 year old dude living in the UK 🇬🇧. Remember many movies 🎬 that shown somebody with proper 👌 ( know whst ime doing here) knowledge. Scene in T2. Bit of hacking Mr Connor . Knowbody wants federal prison 🤣🤣🤣 but allways. That a thing. 😮 can Hack like that ( ( Errrr turns out you can 🤫🤫🤫 ) any hardware put down . Looks complex , masterminded. Was fully into that joined groups also into that. Believe in UK 🇬🇧 but a few 🤣🤣🤣🤣 We stated within the law. But i smiled 😃 at your video . Said " Still some blooming Geezer messing & Tinkering about with a blooming old computer 🖥 " . Don't you stop fella. Till they shut it all down. Don't you stop. Whsg a channel. Honour 🎖 to find you on Vast KZbin. Only a few go deep. Thank god 🙏 wr aunt all parents & civil servsnts 😝🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Wanteyt]

Hn ... ha fh I kl lo

[@cancan-wq9un]

Dude. How do you do all of this? Even just thinking about all the problems and hours spent troubleshooting them makes my head hurt. You got yourself a subscriber.

[@saveitforparts]

There's plenty of trial and error, and dead ends, and broken stuff! I mostly do this tech stuff in the winter, summer is too busy with boats and yard projects!

[@noahdonovan1618]

@@saveitforparts well said 😂

[@TheBinaryHappiness]

@@saveitforparts boats n hoes!

[@SimDeck]

I love that there are people like you in the world. Curious minds full of enthusiasm. I have no idea what you are doing but I know I like it. You make the world a better place because you provide something different.

[@chrome7fan]

I love this guy. There are so many radio hobbies that require you to shell out stacks just for some decent equipment. Then this guy pulls a “ummmm actually 🤓” and fabricates an entire setup for less than like $50. An absolute legend.

[@leandrogoethals6599]

nO U cAn'T dO ThAt u NeEd tO buY oUr 50K vERsion!!!.....Soyface emoji (there wasn't one on youtube)

[@TheSquidNinja]

Yeah, but I'd like to know the net worth of his workshop just before he was able to build any of these projects

[@OneTopic]

This was really enjoyable! Fun edit and really interesting project.

[@fabrestervis]

Strange place to find you. On this side of youtube is everything possible.

[@justforsoundclippin1002]

And on my list of people I didn’t expect to see on this channel…

[@le9038]

You are the one person I'd least expect to find on here...

[@ThesiBejsi]

I did not expect you to be here(love you btw)

[@purplelord8531]

onetopic???

[@artem.boldariev]

That is a real cyberdeck - not these often useless toys people build. In my opinion, a cyberdeck is an utilitarian custom computer for specialised purposes (just remember the "heroes" of these cyberpunk novels and what they were doing). And this device ticks all these boxes. Thank you! It is very inspirational.

[@robotdudeguy]

who cares if stuff is "often useless" its just a fun little hobby

[@endermannull4420]

the fact that his schematics look like concept art for a game this video is golden, I'm subscribed

[@WeylandLabs]

This is a Steve Wozniak type of guy you want to be a around for a start up - Great Upload ! I wanted to make a business back in the late 2000's measuring wireless phone company's radio frequencies, then selling the data to marketing firms. Didn't go through with it because I was hanging out with people held me back. I'm sure it would have been a minor success, you have a lot of passion in what you do. Never let anyone hold you back from your own idea's 👍

[@lxlMrSatan]

What kind of data could you get from that, that would something you could sell? Just curious

[@rjl4340]

Your hardware knowledge (and stash) is truly impressive. This is by far the most jerryrigged cyberdeck I’ve ever seen. You inspired me to look at my rats nest of old hardware to see if I can use anything. I can’t wait to see the next project you work on! 🤝

[@user-xo1ms4yq4m]

This video again inspired me enthusiasm to communication tech since I’ve been sucked into annoying working projects for quite a longtime and forget it’s used to be so interesting for me 😢

[@DIE2dayORelse]

Love this, there's something so cool about custom tech in the modern day when most things like this are done with a phone, pc, or raspberrypi

[@jacobgreenberg3030]

Really enjoyed this longer vid! Getting to see the process of making something is always a lot of fun. Keep it up! I'm particularly interested in seeing if you can get the array to work

[@saveitforparts]

Me too, I think it will be a fun attempt! This video could have easily been even longer, I had over two hours of footage and had to struggle to keep it to 20 minutes!

[@Lesnoy40rt77]

Somehow I missed your channel over the years. I am too dumb to do anything myself, but I love to watch people engineering something from junk. Loved this thing so much, hope you will have fun with this ❤

[@HayuNukui-hh6bb]

Coolest thing I've ever seen in KZbin made out of unused parts, Absolutely love it

[@DominicNJ73]

This guy is the kid from any 80's neighborhood that could jerry rig the cable connection to get the Disney Channel for free. I absolutely loved watching this, reminded me of several guys I knew from my childhood.

[@juanpenk9104]

Your display of technical knowledge is incredible, these are such cool projects, keep it up!!!

[@pileofstuff]

Now this is the sort of mad science project that I can get behind

[@USBEN.]

KZbin recommends a random video, me watches, me enjoys. Realising how much I love reusing and hacking things.

[@lordjellyfish4745]

If we ever go into some sort of apocalipse we need to protect this guy at all costs

[@Od50]

😂😂😂😂

[@vmpere2637]

Stuff like this is so interesting, and i love to see there's still ways of using old proprietary hardware and giving it new life!

[@youtubeaccount931]

Hell yes. 10/10 Great build sir! I had no idea gqrx would run on a 686. Great idea for the patch board for the rtl-sdr. Coolest radio build I've seen all year

[@terenceokane]

this project was amazing! that panel and box looked clean as hell. absolute maniac going from issue to issue. i can be the same with projects but the way you ripped open that computer when the bios battery died killed me. love the channel!

[@phaandorpertwee6981]

18:20 was the moment I totally lost it :) This is so ridiculously cool, I can't even find words for it. Just never stop doing, what you do!

[@elevationsickness8462]

I can't tell you how long I've craved a scuffed hardware video like this to show up on my home page. Oh mighty algorithm bless this channel

[@vividious]

I loved this video. In depth, hack-ey and held together by a lot of passion and a tasteful amount of jank Found another inspirational tech binge channel to add to my list

[@saveitforparts]

Ha, yeah that probably describes half my content :-D

[@vasilivladivostok1136]

It seems like most cyberdecks are solutions looking for a problem, whereas you just decided to stop torturing yourself whenever you wanting to play with the SDRs. This thing is great!

[@oldpain7625]

Dude, this is truly great. Round of applause for your skill and creativity. 👏 Can't wait to see what else you have on your channel.

[@VoldraLightningfrost]

Words cannot express how impressed I am. Instantly subscribed!

[@AngeliteEntyshak]

I loved every second of this video! From hearing the enthusiasm and humor towards your problem-solution attitude, watching you cycle through damaged scrap parts regressing in technology as you continued, your form factoring considerations, and the final demonstration. I can only ever hope to be as good at salvage and jerry-rigging as you are!

[@greystripe3737]

I love how much this looks like a movie prop or something. really neat stuff man

[@MotownBatman]

This is a Sweet Idea, I always like looking for different ways to use my junk besides loading them up with Emulaotos

[@saveitforparts]

I'm hoping this gets more use than some of my other special-purpose computers. I made a little emulator arcade system that mostly gathers dust now, and I never have time for my drawing tablet. I haven't learned my lesson though, one of my upcoming vidoes is to hack a Kindle into something more useful that will then probably not get used!

[@MotownBatman]

@@saveitforparts Yessir! I just recently decided to attempt emulation on a Kindle... But then I realized I Re-Gifted my kids old ones to Nieces & nephews. Hopefully neighbors & friends start offering me old electronics again soon Keep up the good work!

[@mauriciotamez4047]

I am a guy who doesn't stick to videos for more than 5 minutes, but this definitely kept me hooked up all the way. Great video mate.

[@DanteHaroun]

Love how 1/4 of this video is this dude just going through and breaking a bunch of his old computers lol

[@TheMitoSan]

Whoa! Dude, I'm 200% amazed with your project - It's fantastic! You just got a new subscriber! PS: NGL, you look like someone that Fox mulder would love paying a visit 💜

[@ammarahmedkhan2416]

I wonder how did he get all the knowledge, I mean he knows everything about IT and stuff. Respect !

[@BladeStar420]

Your screens and hacking briefcase look like what the tech in movies/games looks like. That's pretty cool

[@greuju]

I love seeing someone who really puts time in their videos and hobbies. I know nothing about this but I've watched 3 already.

[@Pkp-zr2li]

Just found your channel, and this is exactly the kind of video that I have always been looking for

[@alphaeligon9226]

Reasourceful, adaptive & knowledgable...an old school techie in a younger version! Saw the image of the seg,emt....very educational. Re-learning I.T....amazing channel!

[@alphaeligon9226]

And hilarious, too!

[@TwinTurboOnly]

Tweezers are a life saver when working with ribbon cables and other small electronics. Awesome video btw. I learned a lot of random things from this video.

[@Metalrasputian]

"It's not the prettiest" Brother, that's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

[@thesaurusrex7919]

They weren’t lying when they said you can learn anything on KZbin

[@GetMoGaming]

Awesome dude. I thought in the last video I watched, I bet that cyberdeck was expensive. I didn't take into account your channel name and theme lol. Incredible.

[@MunitionsDudTester]

This is awesome, I thought you needed a certain antenna to receive those weather images, I'm definitely going to have to try this out now!

[@saveitforparts]

The little rabbit ears that come with an RTL-SDR kit work pretty well, as long as you have them extended to the right length and angle. I've also made one out of coat hangers / random metal rods. If you want better performance and a stronger signal there are designs like a QFH that can be made at home, they're just a little more complicated (I made two and only the 2nd one really works).

[@CallOfCutie69]

I thought Cyberpunk was just a set of stylistic tropes, and technically not viable. But this shows it’s real, with enough talent and determination. Bravo.

[@robertouplink]

Cai de paraquedas no seu vídeo. Rapaz, gostei muito. Me empolguei muito com essa saga para montar um setup móvel. Pena que eu não tenho muitos amigos com capacidade técnica suficiente para assistir e admirar o setup que você montou. Desejo sucesso com canal! Traga mais vídeos como esse. Saudações do Brasil!

[@realasspodcast]

this video rules so hard. it just keeps snowballing into cooler stuff. not really into satellite tech myself, but the dedicated cyberpunk briefcase piqued my interest enough for a curiosity click - but damn, soon as those XP-era police car computers made an appearance and you choose to bin off the proprietary connector instead of going down a rabbit hole of trying to source the plug I was like hell yeah brother

[@appalachianunderground8474]

I work in telecommunications networking , I mess around with a few projects at home… lol I thought I was pretty slick 😂but I now realize that I’m Fred Flinstone compared to you being George Jetson 🤓… thank you for such a awesome channel.. every video you share with us feeds My fire to do more, keep it up !!

[@inverlock]

I do IT in the business world, docking stations are huge now with a big push for laptops that works can use for hybrid WFH and in-office. Each user has a dock with monitors and KB/M at work and potentially in a home office as well (although most just plug into their own TV or monitor at home). The Dell ones are pretty reliable, well built, and also partially modular. They are expensive as hell though... Dell...

[@AdamWolphe]

Outside of the big PC manufacturers, CalDigit makes fantastic docks as well.

[@Grip_ItandrRip_It]

This video was so awesome, it had me dragging out old laptops, pulling and swapping hard drives, decided to use the one with the dead battery with an i5 processor...then I set up an RTL-SDR dongle on it after 3 tries (had to do manual drv installs but nbd)... a few sfc /scan now's later, i had scrounged up a USB extension cable and FINALLY moved the SDR rig outside so I could start doing some real scans. Thanks for the motivation.👍

[@saveitforparts]

Cool! It's always fun to find a new use for old tech junk :-)

[@RandomPassenger-wb1og]

How do you know all that, from where you started and how long

[@BryanDeadly]

@@RandomPassenger-wb1ogYea where the hell do you even begin?

[@gannas42]

Really nice work here and very cool that you shared it with the r/cyberdeck community. I _feel_ like we don't see enough completed and useful projects over there. Blue flavored USB sounds delicious, too. And best of all you paid the cat tax!

[@Capturing-Memories]

That all in one PC with "DATALUX Tracer" logo fits the project perfectly, it is almost like it was designed for this purpose.

[@irrationalnumbers771]

Great build and super cool that you can pull from NOAA directly. I had to chuckle at the Orinoco reference as it was always a card I wanted to buy, but couldn't afford it back in the day.

[@lavenderlilacproductions]

Having a "bin of satellite related garbage" won you a subscriber, Sir.

[@thingsido6303]

I love stuff like this! Keep making awesome stuff!

[@helixred4075]

You're an absolute legend. I love ripping into older tech from companies which didn't stand the test time. Fantastic video.

[@fuzzylilpeach6591]

This guy is the "scrappy tech genius hacker" side character in every action movie but like in real life

[@georgenorwood3751]

This is exactly why I love KZbin, awesome deck!

[@tlarson91119]

Nice, I've got an older Dell laptop with a dead battery too but couldn't decide if it was worth getting another. I replaced the old drive with an SSD a while ago and put Lubuntu on it. It runs pretty good (dual core, 4GB memory) and I use it mainly for videos when I'm sleeping, and sometimes practice shell commands/scripting. I used to work at a small computer repair shop about 10 years ago and when we shut it down, we held onto a TON of the old hardware that is, by now, obsolete except for some niche use cases maybe. I haven't figured out how to dispose of whatever isn't worth keeping though.

[@aaronwieman8368]

this was so cool seeing the inside of a datalux again.. love it. These were the older models, but they were bought by A LOT of departments because they were fanless and made out of cast aluminum. we had several survive car fires, crashes etc.. the model you are using was a pain to repair.

[@1AEGIS]

wish utube would recommend more like this. subbed

[@reiisthebestgirl]

I'm glad guys like this exist and they film experiments for benefit of society. Thanks youtube algorithm.

[@Romansbook]

Probably just landed myself on a watch list just for watching this

[@bamargera0123]

If this video was in your suggestions, you already were on a list somewhere.

[@EHKOS]

I have no idea what that does, why you would want/need to do the things it does, but I'm glad you're happy about it doing the thing. It looks very cool too!

[@ForsakenSandpaper]

Pressing a red button inside a Nuclear suitcase (legal)

[@benskev]

the neckbeard power in you has made this hackbox possible

[@Mrmultikeller]

Im so glad I found this channel! I know fuck all about anything technological other than base use of consumer goods, but listening to you problem solve and MacGyver your way through this was incredible! Happily subscribed for more.

[@notepadinc655]

glad to see even with satellite equipment you still need to download that classic keylogger driver from a dead website

[@kano8474]

Hi there. I recently subscribed to your channel and have been watching your videos. I must say, I love the content. Amazing what you can build from junk.

[@MiketheEye]

Dude. I've been on an incredible journey learning about how things are broadcast and received and it has led me to this! The world of waves is incredible.

[@saveitforparts]

It really is! I've always wanted to learn more, and it really helped me to do hands-on stuff like this.

[@lukewithrow1351]

This is ridiculously cool!

[@TerminalFailSafe]

This is the “cool neighbor” you want to know!! Fascinating stuff you get into! Thanks

[@bridiro]

I just discovered this channel, and I absolutely love it! I love old style hackers, and you are a per fect example of one. Keep this on, you're great.

[@ButterfaceGMusicSlump]

I can't believe this is real. This is insane man! Awesome job.

[@ChhowrayMaharaj]

I just got frustrated with all the cobbling of old tech together but I'll just join everyone in the comments and sit through the video; I'm trusting that there's satisfying content here!

[@metium27]

Nice video mate. that's really amazing to see someone be happy with what he's/she's doing.

[@percy404]

Great project, brother! Tech's not broken until starting it up is biology.

[@icxcarnie]

Incredibly cool. Perhaps something that would make this more convenient would be a keyboard with a trackpoint on it; I know Lenovo makes them with the ThinkPad brand.

[@wachdai]

Don't know what it is, but can't stop watching.

[@trueKENTUCKY]

Cyberpunk 2077 theme starts playing

[@domenicoroselli926]

I love your videos. I don’t really understand how most of the things mentioned in your videos work but i find it so fascinating to watch you create something new out of scraps.

[@swrekcfest]

There is something you can add that has a good chance . Maybe a different generator that produces a higher voltage but with lower amps and in between the steam engine and generator add some gearing . Hope this helps , great video by the way !

[@Syndicate._]

I have no idea what 90% of this is but I love it

[@kbhasi]

(6:43) It probably originally came with a wiring harness that pulled power from the car's 12V accessory power rail, and USB probably connected to other devices that had their own wiring harnesses. With that, it was likely easier not to remove the wiring harnesses from the cars when selling them. At least you could just remove the connector entirely! (7:08) Q4OS is based on Debian, which currently still supports 32-bit x86, and when installing through it's installer (instead of a live session), at least in 'expert mode', there's an option to select a kernel that's either 32-bit or 32-bit with PAE. Ubuntu, while based on Debian, doesn't support 32-bit x86 at all (they used to). It may be possible to run Linux Mint Debian Edition 32-bit with Debian's 32-bit non-PAE kernel, but that would be too complex for you to do, and Q4OS seems to support 32-bit x86 without PAE, so there you go. (10:52) Meanwhile, I was using a Linksys WPC54G provided to me by my ISP to steal Wi-Fi from my neighbours using a half broken NEC Versa E400 laptop that had, like, a dead keyboard, dead left speaker, dead battery, and wires sticking out for the power input. Yeah, those were the days before Wi-Fi routers came with WPA enabled out of the box. 2007 was a point in time… (yes I was using my own Wi-Fi connection most of the time, and yes the ISP also provided a WRT54G as well) (12:10) (14:30) That looked to me like one of those random brands to just get a trademark so they can get leverage when selling on Amazon. There's a whole Techquickie video about those!

[@petevenuti7355]

I tried to start my own wisp back in the late 90's with some dec-915mhz stuff (later became lucent wavelan, not to be confused with wav2lan) I'd love to find some of that & the old 915mhz mesh equipment from NYC or that pre-802.11 2.4gig stuff that a Mane isp had that did 60mph hand-off on same SSID... Hard to believe there was all that available in the 90's and no-one wanted broadband back then...

[@kbhasi]

@@petevenuti7355 WaveLAN?!?! Whoa. As someone who grew up in the 2000s, I can only imagine what it would've been like, and how expensive that kind of stuff likely were. Where I live, we were able to get broadband (more specifically, cable Internet) as far back as 1999!

[@KerboOnYT]

That was a fun watch and a great project. I like that you are getting use out of old equipment. Q4OS is my go-to for older hardware too

[@nross.7968]

One day this guy will discover alien life forms. When asked by the media. “Sir how did you do it?” Well, simple…opens up the box 😂

[@robertoruiz8373]

You would make the world's greatest electronics professor. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

[@jessen00001]

So cool. Gets me geeking out hard 😂

[@tech-nomancer3089]

Dude pretty or not just looking at it is super cool. Gives it that sy-fy feel you see in movies.

[@paulj.thaddaios]

Bro I wish I had a friend like you to do stuff like this with!

[@ruralandlocal]

This guy craziest on KZbin , is 100% on a watch list

[@Wanton110]

Those datalux things are awesome, never find that sort of thing over here, especially not for that price either

[@24kRobot]

Wow, this is rad!! What a watch. Very cool. I enjoy when people share their hobbies and passions with us. This is way cool!

[@stalker6617]

Depending on the CPU there is a chance that it might have PAE but is missing the flag as I found out with a Thinkpad running Intel Celeron. You can force the os to install with "forcepae -- forcepae" (yes there's supposed to be spaces there) during the initial boot. Apperantly it can mess stuff up if your CPU doesn't have PAE so use it with care and don't worry I'd your CPU supports PAE but lacks the flag as I didn't notice any issues on my Celeron.

[@K20_SL0W]

I've built this with a harbor freight case (cheaper than pelican) however I use mine as a tuning laptop for cars. The issue I had is when the lid is up the keyboard sags. The lid of the laptop has velcro so I can remove it of I need to but the glue on the case I heavy duty and the adhesive on laptop is as well. So what I did for the sag is cut a piece of 1/8 inch stainless steel to cover half of the inside of the case leaving room underneath for a charger and the connectors for the laptop to obd2. When you lift the case and lower the keyboard it sits on a rubber stopper which also holds it tight when the lid is closed. This leaves about a 3 inch gap under the laptop in raised position to put your notes and stuff. Works well, is compact and completely waterproof. Can take it out to track day even when it's wet out.

[@saveitforparts]

Very cool! I like that idea.

[@EvoWatches]

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