I Put a Mechanical Keyboard INSIDE My Laptop
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Big thanks to PCBway: www.pcbway.com/
I completely re-designed and re-built my Lenovo Yoga 730-13IKB because the keyboard broke, for the second time. So I took matters into my own hands and put a full mechanical keyboard into it.
Design files available at: www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Mechanical_Keyboard_Laptop_940dff5e.html
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This is so GOOD! 👍🔥🔥
why is this guy's voice so intensely annoying
PCBWay please give me a pcb
@@cheater00 because your judgemental and "intensely annoying" yourself
@@BonelessMoose oh my god bro stop
@@ArkboiX nah I think im good
you cooked bro.
yup 100%
Is bro ok after being cooked?
bro cooked a ytp
bro cooked a new dish, new to the world.
bro cooked the bro bruh blud bro is totally cooked doe bro is fr doeeeee 😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀ohio!
jeffrey dahmar in a parallel Universe
For real lol
That's what I thought 😂😂😂😂
It doesn't help at all that he drilled the fuck out of that pc lmao
🤣🤣🤣
"I put a mechanical keyboard in a laptop, and fuman flesh inn a barrel'
Actual mechanical engineer here - I love how janky it is but how great it turned out to be in the end - looks great
But have you used pcbway?
Actual chief mechanical engineer and a Nobel Prize winner here - I love how condescending your comment is, but how you end up praising him - classy guy!
@@lickdonuts1210I love how he compliments himself before praising him 😂
@@lickdonuts1210 a real engineer would know that jank is no condescending it is in the job description
Those air holes are begging for some rubber feet to help them do their job. :)
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hope he sees this and does it
imagine adding current little legs like those ones of keyboards to that custom build
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We now live in an age where personal electronics are so affordable and accessible and small and uniformly identical that projects like this automatically become more interesting and desirable than more polished products.
Back in the 80s, most polished products started as projects like this
@TheRenegade... Yep; like Apple and Google and Facebook. But most companies have forgotten their humble beginnings.
@TheRenegade... Yep; like Apple and Google and Facebook. But most companies have forgotten their humble beginnings.
I love Japanese laptops that feel stuck in the 80's and this feels like a modern one.. and I flippin love it!
for example panasonic?
LTT did a video on one of those I would unironically daily drive one of those if given the chance
@@unusedaccount-b7t yup, also fujitsu with his Lest Note series are awesome
@@mrtetillas7504 oh yeah. also toshiba libretto
👏👍 well this thing is ugly, but i like it. You should implement a car key mechanism to start it up
This is honestly the coolest video on youtube I've seen these days. Dude, that mechanical keyboard is awesome. Your engineering is beyond beautiful!
Your mother and I are so proud of you. See what you can accomplish when you stop smoking drugs?
crazy
crazy
bro what
@@bryce7566 crazy*
crazy*@@bryce7566
How could one sound completely insane and normally calm at the same time
This vid is so good, the transitions, animations and 2010 quality webcam sections. aaaa you really deserve more subs.
check him after a month
"I love it not because it looks good. I love it because I made it" vibes
UA-cam recommended this video to me. I watched it from beginning to end, and it is truly spectacular... The development of the video, the recordings, documenting everything like a good engineer, creating a retro design reminiscent of the 80s, using high-quality construction materials, good colors and excellent music. You really conveyed a lot of emotions to those of us who share the same passion for hardware. I am subscribing!!!! Greetings from Chile.
The comedic timing, jokes and editing are some of the best i have ever seen! 11/10 love the vid. Keep it up!
10:10
Yoga: Pls let me die
Marcin: I love you
LoL
ACTUALLY one of the best videos on yt. Feels like just out of a movie. I wanted that for my laptop, how can i achieve this.
its strangly comforting to have no music in the background. super underrated channel, you deserve at least 2.23k subs
The subtle computer hum makes the video juuuuussst perfect
at least 2.3k subs
>no music
but shitton of random unnecessary cuts and noises. Top notch producing here
@@MrBratkenSolov unnecessary? pleb
Agreed. No background music, no subway surfers at the bottom half, pure bliss.
bro is this jeffrey dahmer
Literally lamo
Litterly the reason why i clicked the video😂
Jeffrey if he was smart in the right way and funny
I hope a Laptop company sees this and hires you, Framework maybe?
Yes. They should. I could be the resident insane fake engineer.
But actually Framework👉👈🥺
some team has to go first...
There already exist laptops with mechanical keyboards for a few years now, most notably variations produced by clevo. You could refine your version to replicate a sleeker fit like them, and since framework exists now I believe it would be much more easier for you to source their parts and incorporate a low profile keyboard into their framework laptop and possibly sell some units to other framework users.
@@karakuri002yeah, I'm kinda doing that with a framework, but building my own bottom chassis
Doesn't frame work support 3rd party mods? He could produce a drop in mechanical keyboard and sell them. Sales numbers would be the best way to get framework's attention.
Builds a Chad of a laptop. Runs Linux. Kings the whole thing. Someone said it already, you cooked. Also, your editing is F4acking Supreme!!!
Good video. Very funny. Bit high noise floor on mic, you can hear it whine. Otherwise very funny
Thank you, yeah I swapped mics later in the video when I noticed it :|
@@MarcinPlazaI actually thought it was part of the joke ngl
3:27 this made me giggle heartfully, and the anvil is an amazing touch! Tickles that nostalgic childhood funny bone when I was young
Imagine if Akira Nakai were to tune laptops instead of Porsche's, this has the same spirit and I love it
holy crap. that actually looks really good in the end. am impressed.
A product to make any Apple engineer blush with jealousy.
I got recommended this cause I like silly stuff like this and man, I was not expecting to laugh so hard in the first few minutes to the point where I had to pause, I think it was the silly transitions followed by a dark joke about getting hit with a scooter then some warping sound effect. I have definitely subscribed.
i cant believe you posted this two days ago and not 15 years ago
This is one of the best looking laptops i have seen in years. Thin laptops are cool but a thick laptop with cool things like a big battery or a mechanical keyboard are cooler. Also the clear bottom is like icing on the cake.
great job! it takes a lot of patience and determination to work out and fix every one of those little (and big) problems you had assembling the laptop, the outcome looks superb and Chucky in a good way, keep up the great videos :)
I love how wet your mouth sounds come through on that mic, really gives it that chef's kiss of "good thing this guy's an engineer because I think he'd be a serial killer if he didn't have this kind of stuff to keep him busy"
I love the editing style of this video. Definitely gonna check out more. The low quality camera footage bits cooked
Wow, color me thoroughly impressed! I love videos like this. I have been dreaming up all kinds of custom build ideas and this is totally something I would love to make. For me, its not about how "janky" something is, but the fact that it is functional and you did it yourself. Mad props and keep at it!
I submitted this to Hackaday with the following comment, RIP your comments section:
So some nerd (who am I kidding, I wish I was this good) kept breaking his laptop's keyboard (because design flaws) and finally gave up and did what we all wish we could - rebuilt the laptop to house a mechanical keyboard. I'm kinda in awe, and I hope you all are too.
That's why I'm here.
this ... this is life
i love this type of energy I have no idea how i stumbled onto your channel but this is everything i have been wanting to see from youtube
Dang. That reminds me of the MNT reform with the transparent bottom. Excellent job with the design, it has the right amount of jank, and to be able to see that jank through the bottom is just perfect. Adding bumpons on the bottom could be a final addition i suppose?
You deserve my sub
I love how it turned out looking so nice and clean but the entire process was so stressful looking
this genuienly felt like a thng a ThinkPad modder would do. You honestly did a wonderful job; I've never ever seen anyone do something like this ever before, and the way you executed it along with the final product is just spectacular.
I want one now 😭
that's cool mr. dahmer
I’m learning PCBWay will pretty much sponsor any crazy electronics idea on UA-cam. That said, as someone who hates laptop keyboards with a passion, I commend you.
in the first half bro was pretending to be noob until the cinematic shots came in, nice Bro keep it up :)
I was cleaning my house today and ran across some of my 10+ year old laptops, and boy are they chonkers, just a bit thinner than your great creation.
VGA, HDMI, 4x usb 2.0, PCMIA, RJ11, RJ45, firewire, some weird proprietary port I never used, blu ray, 2 headphone out, 1 mic in, 1 audio line out, and also had a slot for a remote control. Absolute media beast.
Hats off to you for your sweet chassis and giving new life to a dying laptop.
is that laptop you found by any chance an HP Pavillion DV6?
@@gamecuber6 Very close, it's a HP paviliion DV5. My main memory of the thing is it was great, but ran hot like a furnace. I ran it for so long the fan bearings now sound awful. Not very useful anymore as it runs vista and only has 4gb of ram.
@@TastidiousYabbie 4GB will be decent for Vista actually
@@TastidiousYabbie genuinely surprised that the gpu in it hasn't yet failed
most of those pavillions with dedicated GPUs had an issue where the gpu would overheat to a point where it would crack the solder balls and require a reflow
thank you for the peel, and the sound of the keyboard is proper loud in that case. nice work.
Being crazy enough to pull a trigger leaves a man unchanged. Unevolved. Middling. Forgettable.
Being gangster enough to 100% that mission with AA-grade precision, finesse, and style however... leaves something beyond a man. You sir are hereby certified: Legendary Operator. Incredible work. Liked and subbed.
👏
i thank god it came
on for you page, great project hope to see more
I would happily have a laptop that thick if it had a mechanical keyboard.
Well he is just a guy. If a brand like lenovo tries it it won't be that thick at all
I can FEEEL the pain you went through doing this but the end product is so cool on so many levels
Perfect mix of creative humour and actual tech channel chaos
Now THAT is limited edition. Love how retro it looks. Awesome job and channel, subscribed.
Most underrated channel I know. Hope you get the recognition you deserve.
You'll blow up some day with the originality you brought with this video. I just know it! Keep pushing content, because I'm a new subscriber :)))
Man this is super cool! And now im really tempted to do this myself with my old Dell XPS laptop its always having thermal issues so making a bigger custom case in CAD would allow for a much better heatsink/air flow and maybe an integrated custom keyboard like you did (Tho i would probly go for a NuPhy Air60V2 or Lofree flow board since I like their sound and build quality) I think your over all end product looks super sick in a kind of janky way and totally has that homemade DIY vibe going for it lol
you could try and source a beefier cooler even with the extra real estate
Watched this at 3am, oh boy!
But seriously, great work, this gives me so many ideas on what future projects ideas! Awesome job!
Reminds me of old youtube, well done
I must say the motherboard mod does a great job on the thocciness of the keyboard. great job.
I've been feeling kinda down on engineering lately, being forced to waste time on classes that wont add to anything, and each class I miss just makes the nextt one more pointless. But seeing stuff like this gives reminds me why I chose this area.
Yesterday I soldered some broken keys from a non-hot swapable mechanical keyboard, switch by switch (12 in total), and it felt great
Don’t feel down, you’re an engineer! You can make whatever you can dream up. Don’t be afraid to fail, and fail again, thats how I got to this point, and I still fail more than I would like to admit. So many projects, built and rebuilt. I believe in you :).
Sorry for the bit of a tangent lol. Don’t quit.
No joke that's the sickest custom laptop build i've ever seen, no competition. I'd wanted to do a similar thing with mine, custom lower frame to accommodate as many 21700 5ah cells as i could fit. it was both kinda funny but also frustrating seeing you encounter so many of the issues i figured i'd run into. subbed af
Was looking up laptop stands for my MacBook Pro at 3:30am, and youtube recommended THIS to me...
And somehow I'm not disappointed in the SLIGHTEST! 😃
Even though I have no intention of doing this project, this was beyond entertaining! 😁
Dude the direction and creativity in this video is far more impressive to me than the actual modification of that laptop.
PC modding Jeffrey Dahmer drilling up custom PCs
Dang that's crazy! I just was watching this while doing my CS hw and I saw you're from UF! It was just a random video I chose too. Great video! I'm a freshman at UF this year!
bro looks like jeffery dahmer lmao
what did I just watch. The editing is too good Bro. and the engineering looks super complicated. you got a good sense of humor. 👍
Jeff Dahmer and Keyboards
Want the same. Probably the most upgradable laptop ever made ! Take that, Greta !
Im not surprised you use linux, but Im straight up shocked you dont use Arch btw
Especially on a laptop, the instability and rolling-release nature of Arch can really bite you in the ass sometimes when you have time sensitive stuff you need to do on it. Since he's a university student, I don't blame him for not wanting to deal with that.
@@fotnite_ ok thats a fair point but I was really just thinking along the lines of someone hardcore enough to take on this type of project would be on Arch btw or straight up linux from scratch
@@thomasnuggets9719 nah, nowadays the "hardcore" people are all using NixOS
i not only love the laptop u made but i love the way u told us a story along the way and did it through such genius comedy that only a true artist could understand.
thats really fancy
I love the format of this video. I laughed, I learned, I loved.
Edit: 5:42 is hilarious and creative
nice video jeffrey dahmer
Congrats man on your new job. Way harder than anyone in the comment think. Respect to you and good work.
For a second, I thought Jeffrey Dahmer was trying to sell me a laptop
Come to my house I'll let u play some video games😈
bestie ur adorable, and you've earned another follower! I await your other videos showing up in my feed when I'm bored
Absolutely love this, subscribed and really hope to see more laptop mods!!!
Chunky laptops were always cool, great video editing, it was so fun to watch.
@9:27 THE USB PORT IS UPDIDE DOWN
The usb-c port really is
The humming/coil whine in the background really makes the video 😂😂❤️❤️
Bro looks like jeffrey dahmer 😅
real
Because he is😂
You feel like such a big boy now that you said that, huh? 🙄
As long as he doesn't kill me, good
Hope he's not gay
your voice is so relaxing and the added sound effects made this fun to watch :)
jeffrey dahmer??
💀💀💀
Bro i love the content you nailed it dude, that thing looks awesome lol
but if you're going to post these, I would consider not putting your face on the thumbnail, or if you do, change your hair style. You resemble someone from the past that I won't mention, but everyone knows who he is. I'm not here trying to troll anybody or be an internet idiot, this is really just a piece of advice from a viewers pov. (i spaced my post enough to coverup that part of the review for when people scroll past comments so it isnt visible)
No offence bro, but you look a bit like Jeffrey dahmer
I wish laptop engineers went for a design like this to improve the cooling, ports selections and other things, especially for high-end laptops, the only thing you need is a mesh panel to prevent dust from going into the fans and it'll be great.
0:11 I hear beeping. Fix your mic
I don't hear any beefing,must be a notification from someone's phone
@@mr.cantillasz1912 it's more like a constant buzz. definitely noticeable though, at least on headphones
Zzzzznnnnnnnnnnnn
"it has an equipped conversation starter"- holds the most accuracy of this video lol
This is so impressive… oh my god you are amazing! That’s truly a rare laptop. You made something that is undoubtedly yours!
With the video production, and idea and actual designt etc. I thought this channel is >400k subscribers. But it's only 15k !!!
Keep going! You have yuuuuuge potential.
I thought i'd enjoy this when I clicked but you editing was a treat - this had no business making me laugh so much 😂
this just made me realize that normal people don't care about rattly stabilizers or whatever those disgusting sounds the switches make (it's only disgusting to me don't worry), overall i wish i could do all this, its so satisfying to see your idea come to life by your own hands
Transparent bottom will probably come in very handy if something comes loose inside. No more "Oh, no, something is rattling inside, is it bad?!" stress.
Why did this only get recommended to me now?!
And
Why the hell does that look fire?!
that was an experience and you did not disappoint, I just might do something like this to my Thinkpad T530 provided I can replace the processor that is. it was used as a linux distro testing machine and it just decided to give out i'm currently writing this on a different Thinkpad (a Yoga 11E 5th Generation)
This is amazing and what I've always wanted from a laptop. The only thing I would change is the switches; I'd put Kailh Choc Navies in there.
My fist impressions when I saw the thumbnail was like wow this looks so fucked up, I like it lmfao. Then a couple of seconds later I was like, damn how no one has ever thought about that before, this is awesome, love it 🙌🔥
Honestly not too bad! You can do so much more nowadays with companies like PCBWay.
That thumbnail makes me to watch your video 😁, amazing vid btw :)
If I were in charge of designing a laptop, I would 100% make it look like a Fujitsu from the 90s, but with a proper low profile mechanical keyboard like shown in this video, track point like a ThinkPad, extended I/O (ethernet, VGA, HDMI, CD/DVD drive, microSD, separate mic&headphone jacks, 3x USB-A, 2x USB-C), extensive ventilation, HUGE battery, and just overall built like a tank.
Amazing video. Very nicely presented too. One thing I'd suggest - the louder bits are REALLY loud compared to your voice. I think a bit of compression would make it easier to listen to. Felt jumpscared a few times in this video
2:36 "Time to cosplay as a mechanical engineer again"
2 minutes in and I like this video already, keep up bro, really looking forward to things like this
a THICC laptop made of lightweight materials with many ports, made from off-the-shelf components would be very keen. this is very thought-provoking content