 So welcome to Super Mario time vlog Thursday. Hmm. I like it. Yeah good title good title See as the place becomes more complete more things come here And I did a video before I have a retro pie, which is a lot of fun And if you're not familiar with the project I can well find in my videos. I'll throw a link below The retro pie is a project that you take a raspberry pie and put retro games And when Tom relives his childhood on it and tell us what a raspberry pie is raspberry pie is a very inexpensive little arm-based computer So this whole project to build the retro pie and buy the controller $120 maybe but the reliving my childhood memories and playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES Like I did with this guy when we were really small and we had Nintendo's and Atari's Yes Yes, I'm no Marvin that long. Yeah. Yeah, like the weight of the weight like Atari 2600 days Do you have a 7800 nope just as you did didn't know no who had the 78 must have been Jason Jason Jason had everything I had the 2600 and I had the 800 that was just like a computer was like a keyboard Oh, yeah, he had that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah the 800. Yeah, so yeah, we relived our whole youth doing that So it was fantastic. Yeah, we played so many I played asteroids a lot. Oh asteroids was my jam I was great at that game. I tried playing it like maybe a year ago and I have lost my touch Yeah, not nearly as good at it as I but we can we're gonna relive the little that here So we've got more furniture. We got more places to put our butt Which is important important place to put your butt very important So the building's coming along we got a grand opening, you know last time we got the sign There's like all these little details and we're putting them all together I'm making progress on everything though. I feel that's what matters like this moving forward as you're moving Last week. It's a fridge. We got like one more shelf. There's so this is a really big table. Hmm, and Where's frame at right there figure that's where all the crap is. Yeah It's so close. It's like But it was all the way over here and then we pushed it back and then we but now that there's just less crap over here Now so it's great. We're working on it. We're getting there. I mean, it's it's a 10-foot table and four feet of it It's a little little junkie, but that's all right. And the reason for this is we have so many things We got art projects. We've been working on these are all details that mean a lot to us in some way for some reason Steve is built and we're gonna do Arts and crafts with Steve video. I thought that'd just be a lot of fun Some cool arts and crafts a lot of tech stuff with processors The motherboard lighting project. It's kind of been ongoing, but it's really cool. Yeah, so I'm gonna start I think he's getting ready to assemble now. So we're gonna do some documentation on it Interim because I thought about it after he built some of them like oh, wow, we should probably document some of that Yeah, there's certain things that you don't expect to hear when you work at a technology company like yesterday when Kyle and Steve said Marvin your wife's an art teacher, you know color theory come help us and I'm like They need my help with color theory for it was working on the motherboard project. They legitimately needed to help Yeah, I mean we thought about the scheme. Yeah, yeah, we laid out the things it was it was impressive It really is impressive. Yeah, so it's pretty cool. And there's nothing Steve likes more than lighting things up Oh my goodness. Oh, yes, he puts a lot of thought into how things should be late We're going to speaking of lighting things up and Steve We will do do you've seen our Roman candle video probably of course maybe some of you have seen it Yes, I don't think I've ever posted it on my channel. Maybe I should Well before I say I should I will Tell you we are making a bigger Roman candle shooting thing. Oh boy, and it's now that we have a drone We're going to involve the drone. I haven't decided at what angle we can safely shoot at the drone But I want to get some really cool flyovers with without hitting my drone with it because it's fire, you know fire shouldn't hit my drone May I'll find a clip of it and it's a little piece of here Just give you an idea what a Roman candle shooter is but the Steve was the one who? Crafted a lot of that project and no that was our beta that was our test run and we recorded it I tell my personal channel, but I can bring it over here and we'll talk about what it takes to build one and build a One to scale that we feel is adequate for us. It's like myth busters, right? Yeah We're like, okay, so it didn't work this way, but now we're gonna build the biggest one ever Because we're gonna make this work. Yes We're having a grand opening and the mayor's coming out and all that stuff So once we make friends with all the city people were friends with just in case this goes wrong because I actually want to do The video here of building the Roman candle shooter So that way when when the police come or if they come if something goes awry They could be like weren't you just here with the mayor on the grand opening like matter of fact, I was sure enough Here's a screen capture of it. See how we're shaking hands very friendly very friendly. Yeah in the city where I live I am friends with the chief of police on Facebook. They've seen some of my shenanigans and not commented Is that plausible Mainly for legal purpose maybe illegal papers, and I do post this our vlogs do get posted on Facebook I don't know if the chief of police takes the time to watch my blog. She's a busy person and by the way very great police officer We were really happy. That's how I became friends were on Facebook Was an incident that they were just above and beyond with the city So thank you very much if you do watch this we are really appreciative of the police force there Anyways back to technology things we have more projects with surveillance cameras and everything else That's really growing like a lot of like we're getting a lot of people that want security cameras. Yes, which is good One of the things I just did it before vlog Thursday because somebody was late Getting here. Yeah, but that wasn't so much late as okay. Yeah, I was late. Okay. He was late We usually do this at 80m but he wasn't here and I was already in video mode in my head So I recorded a video and the scalability of building your own Unify and VR video system now one of the problems I'd run into was there's not a lot of details on this and we're trying to detail it and I Talk a lot about that with people is One of the my goals with the YouTube channel is to give you the details to get something now Everyone's like oh use this thing and Contract us to set it up and I'm always like well I just show you the entire setup process and if you want you can contract us I mean, it's great, but I'm not doing this just for a Marketing ploy. It's more of I love sharing technology and by doing that someone sometimes looks at the setup I didn't go hey Here's a better way to do it and that's how you build community That's how you build interest in this and that's how we all get better at doing the things that we're doing here Now I just did the free NAS build and I printed it feels like a half hour long roughly. I don't know Anyways, yeah, probably someone. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say it's the server here It still hasn't been delivered it gets delivered today because we do so much testing on them And you know, I'm right away new because I put that we use non ECC memory So some there was gonna be the the age-old debate about that. I had my responses I actually knew people to debate me on it. So I had my responses in a note pad. I'm like when someone does this Here's my note on what to copy by pace like they replied on my copy paste I have an entire response for them and based on the argument that you present of how I'll present it back You know because we're passionate. We're tax. We're passionate But the other thing and I expected this as well someone's like well, you built it on not server hardware I'm like Yes, now that comes down to clients. I have clients that have budgets When you have clients that don't have budgets and we we can just say I want to build the ultimate no problem Let me build you an entire EMC storage array for your raid. No problem You have $50,000 to spend on this project Most of my clients now we have larger clients and we do some of those and unfortunately I can't document everything we do for them because we're very conscious of client privacy and some of them to say You know we prefer not having any details about our company revealed. We're fine with that But the small businesses are like hey do whatever and most of time you don't know their names because we're doing it here and kind of showing An overview but we always ask permission if we do anything on site with them And but these clients have budgets and those budgets sometimes are like I have about a few thousand to spend on it And someone's like oh you didn't build it with like enterprise NAS hardware I'm like hey, there's a company called 45 drives They make a really amazing storage arrays and the base box before I buy the hard drives Which were one of the more expensive parts of this project costs more than the project. It's like here's your $3,000 hardware box. Oh and you have to buy hard drives for it. I would love to get an approval on that from this client I know what they do for a living and what they do for a living just doesn't pay enough to that We're in Detroit by the way. We are The Motor City. We are not the richest place where we're at. It is not like there Yeah, the streets are not paved with gold and we can't all afford giant rate arrays of SSDs I mean we'd love to it's it's a different market though and That being said we come up with solutions for the clients now one thing about it Even if you build the nice enterprise storage, right? Yeah, maybe there's a little bit more reliability You're gonna get out of it, but the other part of this project that's not really being covered as much because it's not It's not as relevant, but I mentioned it is we have to build a second array on site to back this up So that we're actually gonna be reusing an old ray They have and putting a few new drives in it less redundancy But it's gonna mirror it because a lot of people will realize this and I've seen this happen on enterprise hardware Granted as much left off them catastrophic failure that wipes out the entire system So it's not a backup unless it's in two places You know it has to be in two places well We're gonna be three for this because we're doing you know on site backup because they got about eight terabytes of data they'll be storing on this within a year and After that it's backed up to the cloud so to speak the problem backing up to the cloud is you know Long it takes to get eight terabytes back. We don't have fiber here In these areas either back to where Detroit we don't have that Oh, by the way bandwidth caps and everything else that you deal with If you get a couple terabytes of month in bandwidth your one download is like oh by the way not to mention the time So that's kind of the overall project. I'd love using enterprise hardware. It's not like we're just trying to cut corners I've heard it called like cowboy it where you just kind of whip something together and build it Hey That's fun and we like doing some of that but it comes down to providing solutions for the client That's how boys are cool. Hey cowboys are boys are very cool We should really be wearing cats like cowboy hats and stuff So there's still a lot of thought and planning goes into them It just comes out to using resources we have to build something so that's kind of my thoughts and it's still an impressive Piece of equipment. I mean it's 36 terabytes. Yeah, there's still a lot of storage. Yeah, if you're interested in free nests Watch the video. It's pretty cool The thing that because it's the same day I released the video which of course the build occurs before then There there's now free nests 11 out, but I don't trust it enough after the free nests 10 debacle Yeah, yeah, they left a lot of people stranded on that so I'm waiting You know, it does have a clear upgrade path that I'm waiting before we do it We'll probably do it in place at the clients But because they're not using all the fancy features that come in free nests 11. They don't care It literally is one share for a lot of video files and Random drawings and stuff because it's a civil engineering company It's gonna be filled with sewer videos That's actually what they have a camera that goes down like the big sewers and looks for stuff And they have lots of project pictures when they're putting in new sewer lines So that's really what this is is a giant archive of sewer so when somebody says hey Did you dump that crap onto the server? They really mean they need to dump that crap on the server Just saying check out the group check out this crap on this video the good crap on this Crap's backing up We have to back up the crap We're backing up the crap keep the crap from backing up This is got way meadow for this early matter for this really the crap backed up so it doesn't back up Yeah, so it doesn't back up in sep show up in here So that being said I've also I was on the internet advisor radio show Which was interesting because I've done podcast I do a podcast I've been on other podcasts as a guest But being on radio is weird because of all the ads So that was different so you got this little music that comes in the headphones that starts playing it Let's me know I got 15 seconds to wrap up whatever I'm saying because we're gonna roll to an ad that was kind of fun learning experience then I was interviewed by the Daily Detroit daily Detroit, which was really cool to interview with them and it's fun pulling up history of Tom So they you know their reporters they do the research and I'm like, oh wow you read I forgot I posted that and It's just things I had done in the past and my past also Revisited me on Tuesday, which was two days ago because I Was a photographer and a lot of people know this so I was not just a photographer. I was a wedding photographer My stuff's been published. I've had photos in the night I've you know, which if you're if you're at the wedding industry, it's a big wedding public Very good wedding photographer don't I've done very very well with wedding photography I retired from it about a year or maybe a year ago now Like yeah last year was last wedding I did I just got really burned out I've done hundreds and hundreds of weddings But I sold by another friend who also retired from the business And I finished liquidating the combination of equipment I had that I just been sitting on and all that so it was actually fun the people that hang out with They're getting into wedding photography. So I ended up having like an entire Studio session with them as I used to also be a trainer of photographers I was the person who would bring them out to teach people how to do it and it almost made me wonder I mean, they're like can you do a whole video series on this because I spent like an hour Going over all the little details about doing it and sharing my experiences. So it's kind of funny to think about it going Oh, yeah, there's more past Tom Yeah, that's a bad idea. Yeah, and one more thing and we're gonna post this in our blog So there's a local group and they're amazing called it in the D for you know it in Detroit and we're friends with those guys Bob and Dave from an amazing thing They they're networking one beer at a time Yes, and they are for them. It's rarely ever one beer. Yeah one beer at a time a bunch of beers per episode. They have a podcast Watching Bob get passionately angry about things is epic. So I was on their podcast for their 200th show They had just they have a great a list of geeky guests, which is awesome We're talking like you know people in the comic book world and in some of the wrestling stuff They do and they also have an ATM in their lobby, which is hysterical. I think you seen pictures to that It just popped up. Yep Yep, it just kind of showed up. That's a whole there's a whole thing I want to do if they can get it together wait in front sewing your reversal keys Davis and I told her I'm more than one to help with the hacking of the ATM project for this and So it's gonna be fun. That's that's oh, I'm hoping if we can get this going This would be a whole separate video But back to the ITD guys a listener podcast listen to Bob rant about how angry is about things and it's so funny Like it's being on there with a bunch of tacky guys and sharing a lot of geek humor I was privileged to be on her show. It was great I get to go under and hang out once in a while and you know, we're all friends and it's good But if you look in for a funny podcast not deeply technical But surface technical because they cover tech topics ITD is a great podcast for that It really is it really is and and like Tom said Bob is so passionate about what he gets passionate about Yes, that would be the way to put it. You know Bob is passionate when he's passionate about things So Bob ranting about something he is is really really funny. Gosh. Yes. Yes, Dave has his own Dave's very He eggs Bob on if Bob gets a little mad Dave's like, oh Yeah, you're seeing so close to the ledge So that was a lot of fun I was on that show that was on Monday night So that was they record every Monday night episode 200. So that was really cool And back to other things that we're doing Mostly it's been sales because we're out of money That's spent way too much moving Yeah, we got a So that kind of you know, I still I'm rocking out the videos But it it does you know get out there beat the streets get the sales going We got a good process for it But it's also it takes some doing and I get distracted because I love making videos and then there's tech things and there's hanging out with Bob and Dave and Then there's like the hangover from Bob and Dave so then to say becomes a less productive day Productive at all. I got the free NAS video. Oh, well. All right. Well, that's something so we got that Yeah, so and you know, I made an archaea trip. So that was no excellent. We got furniture assembled So there's like things did kind of happen. Those those mesh chairs are going to be dangerous around here I will be napping in them. I guarantee you it's going to happen going to happen napping in a mesh. Yeah Oh, it's speaking of promotional stuff. We want to send out a thank you to uh, tim summers of Bizarre marketing for getting us some cool marketing materials a bunch of sticky notes Just on those or something. I don't know. I've got to come up with something clever We have a bunch of sticky notes with our company logo on it. We're always looking for ideas and trinkets Um, I wish I had it here, but I think I left it at home. So everyone thinks this is a horrible idea with tom and microsoft I don't know what you guys think it's probably is a terrible idea. It's it's one of those ones. I'm glad everyone said tom You're an idiot Um, because it did influence me this time. Normally. I'm just like, I don't care. I'm an idiot, but I'm gonna run into that wall So I was at the microsoft build conference a month ago and they had Pill bottles of jelly beans that said, uh, azure and where your cure for your ailments or whatever it was I'm like, oh, I love jelly beans and jelly beans and pill bottles seem like a great idea And like everyone's like this is a horrible idea and I'm like, I like it. Maybe it's because I like jelly beans, but It's like Barbara. It's like like people you can't just drop these off tom and like be your it service solution I'm like, why not? Well, because children will find them and be like, oh, there's candy in these bottles These bottles have candy in them. I whenever I find them, I can just eat whatever's in it. Yeah, it's a terrible terrible idea Yeah, so maybe pill bottles is the best idea and I already had them in a wish list on amazon I found out what I could get pill bottles for I didn't like a plan for this Because that's exactly what we need is that in our history is pill bottles Oh, our amazon search history is interesting enough. Yeah, exactly. Exactly There's a subreddit called amazon wtf and I click it a lot and So the weirdest things end up in my amazon search list like you looked for this at one time. I'm like, no, oh wait No, I didn't know I did though. Yeah, I did look at it from reddit. They had a link to it So now amazon thinks I'm looking at whatever the weird thing it is Maybe I should just do a video on all the amazon wtf stuff because it's really entertaining Yes, yes it is. Be amazed what you can get on amazon. I had no idea Mm-hmm Final last thing we'll cover before you wrap it up here is I wanted to do the videos and what wanted and going to Do the videos on how they got hacked. I actually reached out to some security friends. They're interested They were rolling it over on how they want to Present things to make sure we you know keep anonymity of clients because there's so much with you know Confidential and nda stuff that gets involved in this But it's interesting, you know, I want to talk about some of the behind the scenes of how the security breaches occurred And of course by knowing how they occurred gives you an opportunity to hopefully mitigate them with your company So it's a little bit more of a serious thing But I love the intricacies of it and things like that So and sometimes it's absurdities of what was done to get them hacked So i'm a little looking for more stories. I only know, you know, I only have a handful That I can kind of gathered so I got to work out all the technical details Exactly how to do it, but I want to present it really well So that's about it for vlog. There's anything you could think of marvin. No, that's about it You know always leave him wanting more tom always leave him wanting more I think we like we probably hit that mark seven minutes ago. Yeah, you guys are probably going wow I didn't even no one's watched it to this far That's you know, we really need to do that we need to put we need to start putting something like at the end Problem is they can just go fast forward to the end. Well, I don't know something I don't know we live in that world now you can do that Exactly, right? We also throw it up because the battery light isn't quite is it blinking But um it's getting there. So part of the deal was I sold is when you do wedding photography is You have duplicates of everything double cameras double lenses and everything else. So I sold my duplicate equipment One of the things that's missing and it's probably at some brides house Is the battery charger Because sometimes you you know, don't have the battery charge and you put the battery in and charge it When you get there at the wedding as opposed to doing it beforehand and it wasn't me that did this It was a friend who didn't have stop charge. So I only had one charger even though having multiple cameras And so to close the deal on selling all the equipment I had for sale I had to throw in a charger because the person said, oh, yeah, I got canon equipment too So I already have a charger. I don't need it. Say when they message me about buying it I'm like, I'm missing the charger. You can buy them online. Well, they had the wrong canon charger So I had to give them mine. So also I said, well my two batteries are charged and That should be enough. Well, then I've been filming the last couple days and so burning up these cameras Because what you don't realize is there's a lot of footage we shoot And then there's I try to to make it more concise before I give it to you and then some things just don't work I shot an entire thing and it was completely wrong About if I get a fact wrong, I rewatched the video and I'm like, these are wrong facts I try to be very uh fact based on these. We also started building the original free dance video and it's uh wrong too Oops, we didn't realize it wouldn't fit in the case the original case I don't know. There was some major oversight about when we started assembling it. So There's there's actually two free dance videos one that didn't get done Because we realized nothing would fit after tom did, you know, the whole talk And and hung over a case that wouldn't fit the stuff that was sitting in front of me So and glaringly someone would have pointed that out if that would have ended the video there going Hey, you know one the final builds looks different than what you said you were going to do So that video is going to become like a bootleg like the star wars holiday show People are just going to be clamoring. They're going to be like, how do I get my hands on that video? Yeah, it's a Tom doing something dumb. So anyways, the battery's blinking. So thanks for watching like see you next week. Oh, uh, also tomorrow I'm doing a live stream. So if you're watching this whatever date this is published on tomorrow I'm doing a live stream with crosstalk solutions. I'm also reaching out to other youtubers To do some cross channel promotions stuff and things Uh for reference today is june 15th. So i'm june 16. I am so glad somebody knows what today is doing the uh The thing doing the thing the what he just said. Yep. All right. Thanks for see you. Thanks for watching