Presenting my Billion Dollar Plan...

How's it going, bros? My name is PewDiePie. Check it out. New camera. What do you guys think? Pristine. This is actually, if you can believe it. This was filmed with my camera. I made this camera. All right. Honestly, which one is better? Now, now my camera quality actually looks good if I compare it to this. Anyway, I want to tell you guys how I how this all came to be. You may be wondering why I'm in my car. You see, it all started with me selling my old car, my Tesla, and I had dog mode on it, which I find really helpful. What the dog doing? Dog mode is not as fun as it sounds. Literally just a temperature control sensor. And my new car, I don't mean to flex, but it's a minivan. Mitsubishi Delica. And uh, no, it does not have dog mode. I actually found it really helpful. Like if I need to just pop in a shop really quick or if me and Mars are traveling with the dogs, we maybe want to stop for a bite. So I thought, screw it. I'll do something better. I'll add a camera in here cuz the Tesla didn't have that. I can check the temperature and the humidity and that way at least I know my dogs aren't getting scorched to death while I'm away for a minute. So, I picked up a camera online with a humidity and temperature sensor and I was setting it up here and uh I realized all of a sudden sweat was just pouring from my face. My forehead was pulsing. I was getting angry. Why does the camera charge me monthly to use it features? My neighbor walked past. Why does a humidity sensor want my private information? That's when I had the brilliant idea. Right then and then I was going to build my own camera. This Dumbo thought that was a good idea. To make all of this happen, I decided to use a Raspberry Pi. You probably heard of these already. It's a single board computer. And the best part, it runs Linux. Yes. And that's when I discovered glorious SSH. SSH, which stand for secure shell protocol. SSH is basically a way to connect to your uh computer remotely. The fact that you can communicate with a computer just with your keyboard. I feel like I'm a wizard. I'm typing spells with commands. I love it. I type. There are other things you can use but a Pi, but since it's such a tiny computer, it's got GPIO pins, which means you can add a bunch of different hardware to it. And it's got a slot for camera to go to. Perfect. To set this up is super simple. You just have an SD card. You put it in your computer. You use Raspberry Pi software to flash it and you're done. Now, for some reason, and this is not Linux fault. It's not the fault that I'm on Linux. The program didn't work. I think I needed root access and it just wouldn't give it to me. It's not Linux fault. Actually, it's actually good that I'm on Linux because I can solve this problem easily. I just have to do it manually. LSBLK mount that drive and then just flash it on my own. What can go wrong? Flashing an uh a drive on Linux is a bit like a nuclear launch without the glass cover. One wrong move and you can kiss your disc bye-bye. Don't ask me how I know. So yeah, finally I'm in. I'm connected. I'm ready to set this thing up. You may notice it's called car 17. Don't ask me why it's called car 17. At this point, I didn't want to complicate things. All right? So, I thought, okay, a Raspberry Pi and an official Raspberry Pi camera. I plug them in. It should just work. And it does. There's a program called Lib Camera. It works great for photos. It works great for recording video and video streaming. However, should work. It should work. It should work. Now, I don't know how to code. I'm a noob and I realized I'm way over my head here. Okay, so I used a program called Raspby and Raspby Cam was beautiful. Man, it worked perfectly. We had a such a good thing going. Me and Raspby Cam. Can you imagine one day waking up and your best friend is just gone? One reboot and Raspby Cam was just poof. I didn't even get to say goodbye. I don't know what happened. I don't want to use Lib Cam. Goddamn lip cam. I looked everywhere online and everyone's like, "Oh yeah, use recipe cam. It works great. Look." And I'm like, "Yeah, it just doesn't." I look at all these tutorials and man I I feel like I'm being gaslit. Until I finally reading the forums, I find out that Raspby Cam has been deprecated since 2021. RIP. A lot of trial and error and I finally finally got it working. This felt like a huge win. Sheer stubbornness made this happen. But I finally had my streaming live feed. That's what I needed. Huge win. I then added the DHT sensor, which is uh measures temperature and humidity. I added a battery. I 3D printed a case. Bada bing, bada boom. And poof, my dog spy cam was complete. Look at this thing. It's adorable. I love it. I showed it in my last video and like no one cared. I was like, "Look, I made this camera." Hint hint. Do you want me to talk more about it? Anyway, I think it's cool. Me and Marissa went on a road trip. I got to test out the camera. When me and Marissa stopped to have a bite, we could check that the dogs were sound and safe and comfortable and no stress involved. I love it. I want to do so much more with this because I know I it's possible, right? I thought it'd be so good if I can have like notifications. So, if it hit certain temperatures and humidity, maybe high or too low, it would notify me on my phone somehow. I don't know. Okay, fine. I don't know how to do this and the quality sucks and I get it. Like it's not as good as an actual camera, but it's my camera, okay? And I can do whatever I want. It is such a difference from buying this camera that you have to pay to use. It's crazy. It's not the best camera, but it's my camera. Sorry to interrupt the video. I'm hiding in the wilderness to tell you about today's sponsor, Incogn. 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And they have a cool new feature where if you have family unlimited plan, you can point to anywhere online where your private data is and that you want removed and they'll do that for you. Seriously amazing. I saw no one who's trying to do that before and just be like, ah, it's too difficult. It's too time consuming and it costs too much money. This is a great deal. So check out incognit.com/piepie. Get 60% off. Thank you for sponsoring this video. Now I got to find my way out of here. Now, project number two. That's right. While I was tinkering and sminkering, I got a little bored at at a point certain point with this. So, I had started on another project because I went through such hell to get the first one going. I was like, well, the second one is going to be easier. I already know all this stuff now. It's it's going to be a breeze. I wanted to build a nightstand clock. I have an Alexa right now. It's fine, but it really annoys me because it always asks me to update it. It logs me out every time it reboots. Why do I have to log in to begin with? And I don't know how I feel about having Jeff Bezos staring at me while I'm sleeping. Okay, so with Product 2, I wanted to replace that Alexa and built my own sort of nightstand device. And this time it was going to be easy. Okay, I already went through all the issues with the camera. Nothing can go wrong. And to be fair, it it went easy in the beginning. I actually got the speaker for this working on the first try. I couldn't believe it. Holy. Front, left, front. It worked on the first try. That has never happened. What? It worked so great until it didn't, of course. All right, here we go. Lasagna. Why does everyone I love leave me? A little side note here. I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but anytime tech reviewers on YouTube when they review a tiny speaker, they all do this, and I don't understand why. They go, "Oh, it doesn't sound bad at all for its size." If it's tiny, it's bad by default. Okay, listen, my brethren. My brother, tiny isn't good. We have to accept this. Physics is physics, brother. Come here. It's okay. Anyway, my speaker, however, super bad. I really wish I got a better speaker. It's literally made out of paper. But I know a secret trick that the all these tech reviewers don't know about. If you cut the ground wire while it's playing, it sounds amazing. [Music] Felix lawyer here. Do not cut the ground wire. Man, my speaker did all kinds of weird stuff. It made it funny at least. I wanted to set up Spotify on this so I can stream music on it, even though the speaker is terrible. And it was super easy. You just install the package. Bada bing, bada boom. With this project, most of the time I had to spend on was actually 3D printing because I wanted to try and make this look nice. At least I was inspired by old handheld radios. I wanted to have like this handheld feel to it, even though it it's not a handheld device, but most of the time I spent 3D printing. And here's me uh breaking my filament sensor while trying to clear some clawed filament. That's not good. Come on. Come on. I didn't know it at the time. Anytime I try to print, the filament kept going, "No, you can't print. There's something stuck in there." And I go, "Oh, is it?" Because I just cleaned it. I know for a fact there's nothing stuck in there. I kept getting gaslit by my 3D print there. I know there's nothing in there. I actually try to look up if I can SSH into my printer. And you can if you hack it. I was this close to doing it cuz I was like, "Well, I just needed to shut up and print. Like, it's not an issue." and if I can just like find the function to remove the filament sensor. But then I was like, you know what? Maybe I'll just buy a filament sensor and replace it. Maybe I don't have to fight every bat. I found this screen. It's really cheap and I don't know, but I like it and it looks really nice. I just wanted to test out the screen and I found this script that has blinking eyes and mine just said it was really cute, so obviously I had to keep it. It made it kind of like a beimo vibe I feel like. So I kind of went with that. So things were looking pretty good, but then cable madness. I had so many different hardware ran into this thing at this point and cables kept falling off everywhere. I kept resoldering them so they would stick, but it just kept happening and I kept going, "This is not human. This whole video is just me complaining about troubleshooting. Someone needs to know my pain." I kept going, "This is not human." It's not human. I need to save space. I have to solder them all. This is not human. But then that's when I found glorious sha. I'm just kidding. I found glorious hot glue. That's right. Instant stability. And I'm talking about my mental health. It worked like a charm. It's small. There's small stuff like that that uh yeah, it makes a big difference. But at this point, I was so done. And I showed it to Marcia and she uh rightfully reminded me, where's the microphone you wanted to use? Okay. turn lights on thing, right? The voice command. And I'm like, please, there's so many cables that I don't want to I don't want more. And here's the thing, right? Uh with GPIOs, it's not like it's plug-andplay. You still have to activate it and find the right package for it. And microphone, especially I2C, is really difficult. At least I found that it was. And I realize they have USB ports. It's okay to use the USB ports. I don't have to fight every battle, man. That meant it. It was pretty much plug-andplay with a microphone. And I'm actually really glad Ma pushed me to do this cuz I found this open- source software called Vosque. Super cool. It runs voice transcription locally, so it's completely offline. Chikita banana. Oh, banana. Oh, can you come here? Try. Can you say airplane? Really? That was so good. The another reason I didn't want to use the microphone because I thought I would have to use some sort of Amazon or Google API. I I don't know. The whole point was kind of to avoid that. So yeah, the way I ran it, you know, it's not perfect. You know, this is as good as I got, but it works. I found again open source for my plug so you can turn the lights on and it works. Lights on. Oh, first try. Lights off. The project is done. Bye, Alexa. Alexa, kill yourself. No, I'm just kidding. I was worried the light was going to be a little too uh strong, but it's actually quite a comfortable color. I'm very happy with it. I think it looks neat. Again, a great learning experience. Now, I've been going on for 2 months with these projects on and off, and I had one more idea that I really wanted to do, and I felt like I was kind of cheating myself if I didn't do it. It's a little hard to explain, but hear me out, okay? This idea started because the weather in Tokyo at least is a bit unpredictable. And Marcy always asks me before going out in order to know what to wear, she's like, "What? How do you know how hot it And I'm like, "Oh, it says 20°, but it says it feels like 28." And it says later it might rain, so maybe bring a jacket or an umbrella or maybe not. I don't know. Not helpful. So, I thought, what if instead of deciphering all these data, what if you just looked at a screen and then there's an avatar that is dressed for the weather and you just match what the avatar is wearing? You don't even have to think about it. Genius. I was curious if anyone's ever done this. And yes, there are like apps that do it. But then I ruined the idea completely because I got another idea. Okay, this happened because I was going to use an e- in display. E- in displays are amazing. They run on super low power. They have this sort of pixelated retro field to them, which I really like, but I ordered this one and it was way smaller than I thought. I was like, h that's not going to work, but I can use it to just test out how I want to execute this idea. Then Marcia glanced at it and she was like, "Oh, it's so cute and tiny." And I was like, "My brother, maybe tiny isn't so bad after all. Maybe maybe this is perfect adequate size. Maybe seeing the little avatar guy on this tiny screen made me think of Tamagotchi. You know those '90s virtual pets that everyone had? I love the look of Tamagotchis. I love the nostalgic feel of Tamagotchis, but I got to be honest, and maybe I'm the only one, I hated the Tamagotchis. They were so annoying to me to always take care of them. I know that was the whole point, but it felt like a chore. So that's when I came in with a billion dollar idea. What if instead of you taking care of Tamagotchi, Tamagotchi take care of you? Or that way. My brain exploded with ideas. I was like, it it can give you quests. You can level up. It can be like a habit building device. It can still show you what to wear for the weather. It still does that, but also so much more. I told this idea to Mars and she came up that I should do like a water tracking to make sure you're drinking enough water during the day. I pretty much swim in G-Fuel, so that's not necessary for me, but uh she said it was actually useful. And she said that water tracking apps that are free on your phone are absolutely terrible. So I checked it out and can confirm they are terrible. So I thought I could build something like that. And then I remember I used to have this function on my smartwatch where it was for meditation. It would tell you when to breathe in, hold your breath, and breathe out. And I just felt like it was really helpful. That's like a good habit that I would love to get back into. There's so many more things that you could do. Like what if it like gave you quests to of all the stuff that you forget about? like I don't know, call your mom, go to a park, compliment a stranger. But I wanted to keep it simple cuz I I've been doing this for way too long now. So I set a deadline for myself and I really crunched to get this last project done. I had to ditch the e- in screen because their refresh rate is terrible. It's not really built for that sort of thing and it didn't have partial refresh as well that some displays have. Marcia drew the Tamagotchi art and it looks so cute. She did such a good job. I really felt like this made it come to life. I added buttons for it this time instead and squeezing all of this into a tiny device was really hard. I tried my best. Now, I think it's best I'll just I'll just walk you guys through it. All right, here it is in all its glory. I couldn't fit the battery. It's like with a magnet. This is the on button. It takes quite a while to boot. I'm not going to lie to you. Oh, there we go. Man, Marta did so good with the art. Get a tan cuz it's hot and sunny. So, it's 29 degrees now and then in 5 hours it's going to be uh 22° and cloudy. This is actually really helpful. He's telling you to wear t-shirt and shorts. Basically, like if it was really really hot, he would technically be naked. Uh if it's really cold, he wears like a hoodie. I'll show Marcia showing the art cuz obviously now it's not cold. But yeah, I think it looks great. The buttons are the biggest weakness. Like they look terrible. I'm not going to lie, but they work. And I'm out of time. So, so you can navigate through, you click to change. This is the water tracker menu. So, you enter with middle button and then you can up how much you want to drink. 250 ml is a glass. So, you press it to register and it will add a glass. I've uh maxed it at eight. All right. So, moving on, we have the meditation screen. So, you can select how long you want to meditate. Let's say 10 minutes seems reasonable. You start it and then it should start with like breathe. Yeah. I thought that was too too fast. Hold it. All right. Love it. live, laugh, love it. So proud of it. Even though, you know, this is far from finished or even being anything practical to actually use, I wanted to just challenge myself to try my best. For me, this is just so exciting. I realized I love learning stuff. I've been so caught into daily YouTube videos for so long, I feel like I never learned anything or built anything for myself. I always wanted to invent stuff, but I never had the time and the skill or honestly just the patience. This is kind of stuff I would love to build with Bern when he's older if he has some kind of crazy idea or interest in it at all. I don't know. I'd love to share more stuff with you guys if you want to subscribe. Thank you so much for letting me yap. That's it. And uh Bro, this video is sponsored by SY. 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