Peak Maximalist Setup: 9+ Screens, iPod, and Minidisc Player

Okay, so this setup is a Reddit post which I came across. This is from about a year ago. And this is a very interesting setup here. I think he’s just. This doesn’t seem to be function.

This is just, this is like, yeah, I’m gonna, I have a, I have a theme in my mind and the theme is essentially have screens laid out in a way that makes people look at it and go, whoa, what’s going on here? I don’t think there’s a reason necessarily behind this. It’s just my guess simply because, I mean, you have. What is a laptop here? Yeah, it’s a laptop over here.

Is that a UPS have a UPS holding, is it? These are mobile phones. You have this which seems to be like maybe an old broken laptop screen or screen from somewhere. It seems to be disconnected. You have an old Apple style cinema display.

This seems like maybe like an LG with the white on the back. This seems like another Apple display up here. Yeah, look, these are, these are 3D print mounted to the ceiling. Yeah, this, this, this guy just went, you know what? I have, yeah, I have a theme in mind.

I can envision it. I’m going to make it happen. And again, I respect that. I respect the vision. I’m not sure what this is powered from.

He seems to have. So he has a laptop here, laptop here. Not sure I see a desktop PC anywhere. So I’m just going to assume this is the main computer here. The main laptop was an ipod.

Even has an ipod over here. Yeah, a little bit organization. Also, I like these chairs. I think this chair is called a capisco. I think it’s called a haag capisco.

I was looking into these. A little bit pricey for me, but they seem to be very, very nice chairs for they allow a bunch of different positions. So because it has a sort of cross shape and also the seat is sort of shaped as this kind of like almost like a saddle design. So you can, you can kind of turn it around and sit on it backwards. And I think a lot of people use them to like artists use them because it allow for more arm positions then maybe not supposed to be comfortable for sitting in for like, you know, maybe two hours plus.

But I think people make them work because it’s. Because they’re so like, they’re just dynamic chairs. This allow for a lot of positions. So who knows if I can find one for a decent price, might pick one up in future. So I also found a video that this guy made about creating this setup.

So I’m just going to skim through it and let’s see if we can gleam any more information behind this setup. Also, one last thing I just noticed here. He has the. Is this the. What is it called?

The Harmon Kando. I always wanted these when I was like a teenager. I always used to see these like see through speakers. They had the see through subwoofer. Does he have the.

And they had these sticks, these like long sticks. Harmon Kando sticks I think they were called. Or I can’t remember but yeah, they were very popular.

Okay. This is my kind of minimal setup. Yeah, these are the speakers I’m talking about. They. Now that I look at them, they’re.

Yeah, they’re a little bit phallic, but yeah, these were so cool. Back when I was like a young teenager into computers, I used to see the speakers I was always trying to grab get a pair but I could never find any that were like brand new. They were just too expensive for me to buy as a teenager secondhand. I could never find a set that, that were like weren’t destroyed. Maybe they were a little bit fragile due to.

I think they were plastic, maybe glass, I’m not sure. Yeah, let’s. Let’s keep on with the video and I want to do the exact opposite with a bunch of different screens.

The team we are going for are like Cyberpunk, the Matrix, Nebuchadnezzar setup. Also clean up this space. Okay, let’s.

For this one I3D printed a bunch of different stuff, ended up with this Frankensteining thingy. Not Frankenstein because Frankenstein was the inventor and not the monster.

Need some more fine tuning. That’s okay.

Burns more of these three dependent brackets, Some 3D printer parts, a lot of strange wooden contraptions. Most of this will not be visible. So yeah, let’s mountain this one. Yeah, The original idea was to use these as like just mock ups and then make something better later. But I’ll just keep it as this.

Okay. And I will try to hide a lot of the virus and all. The mock up thing is here, you see the original plan was to you know, have a mock up. Basically the original plan was to make a plan, but. Nah, just go with whatever.

However this turns out, that’s how it’s staying pretty much. I respect, I’m familiar with this, this methodology also.

It’s super hard not to laugh of this rigs but just that mini disc player. Was that what they used to be called? Mini disc? He has a mini display which I think he just super glued To a piece of wood and an ipod, both just super glued down. Oh.

Oh my God. These seem to be sort of like old ipods are sort of. A lot of people are sort of reusing them to. I don’t know, and upgrading them. So adding like Bluetooth functionality to an old ipod, they’re kind of coming back into style.

I’ve noticed. I think it’s called like analog tech. It’s not really analog. It’s still digital. But yeah, people using older technology just because they’re more simple.

Single purpose, I think is the main thing. So, you know, people don’t really like getting all their music through like Spotify sometimes, some people maybe through YoYouTube. So they’re like, you know, I don’t want the distractions. I just want my music. I want it high quality, unadulterated.

And the original ipods and minidisc players, if you still have mini discs, were very good for that. You know, just one device does one thing. Does it pretty well. Had pretty good interfaces on them. Yeah.

There’s also a bit of nostalgia there too. Right. Like reminds you of the. When did the original ipod come out? 2000, early 2000s.

Yeah. Maybe just remind you of those days. Try not to laugh with these rigs, but this will work.

Okay. This thing, this awesome 3D printer lab I found on printables, I will link below. It totally fits this setup.

Okay. I got most of my screens up now. So now we have to do a couple of things. One, I’m gonna do some care management and get the scraping powder. Two, make it a bit better looking.

And three, let’s make something cool here. So I 3D printed a bunch of objects here that will keep all my essentials or whatever you call it. This is just the first iteration.

Okay. Still first iteration. First iteration, sure. First and final. Let’s.

Let’s just be honest here. It’s fine. We know. We know what’s going to happen, man.

Simple shuttle.

All the screen and everything is up. Now I’ll do some cable management. Let’s wire it up.

Everything is up.

To turn everything on and off. I got this large safety switch here that will power everything. Boom. Woof. One day, pull, boom.

But this one is not cool enough. So I traded with the different handles. Decent trial and erroring.

This just slides in here.

Now we can do like this to power the screens with some sort of computer. That’s why it’s super convenient that they’re building one now.

Microphone stand, just a 3D pin filled with concrete. Use it and get the cable Plug it in.

This one. Take a hard drive, put it in, take the wire, plug it in. All right. Just a 3D printer shell. I like this setup because he.

It’s like. It seems kind of like. I’m not going to say jank. It’s not Jack. Clearly he’s full of effort and so creativity into all of this.

Even like the, the switch like having like I wanted to have a clank sound. So he 3D prints the mount so it can. It has like a heavy switch on it. That’s pretty cool. But also I noticed some, some like.

Like the computer he was building there. It looked pretty impressive. Looked like a nice build as well. Like the microphone which he has on like the. The concrete based microphone stand.

I think that’s a. Is it the electro voice? Is it called RE20? I want to say that’s a very good microphone. It’s like on a level of the Shure SM7B.

Very good microphone. Quite expensive. So yeah, here’s some sort of high end part sort of mixed in with this like so very DIY sort of like old tech combination. It’s a pretty cool mix. It makes for a nice combination.

You might not notice a lot of these sort of like high end pieces if you’re not looking for them or if you. If you never sort of seen them, seen them retail looked up. Look them up on Amazon to check the price.

Done.

Cool. Let me tell you what everything is. Got my snack. Got my idea that I never use. Creepy monitor of next room.

Super awesome radio app that plays free radio channels from all over the world. Ambient YoYouTube video. Another creepy surveillance to the video of outside it’s a bit dark so you don’t see anything Guildrans from all over the world. It’s pretty cool. Just the front facing camera, clock dog radio port prices.

My discord. Super awesome NASA app that shows a lot of cool stuff. PC monitoring. Just a photo frame that doesn’t work right now. Phones, SD cards and USB.

Some Meshlanders items. Sound controller, sound switcher, music from the iPad and the mini disc or the PC main working screen. This phone just every day I put up some new free photos from the national museum. Some more stats that I don’t really use but look cool. This was supposed to go here but I didn’t got enough times.

Reading tablet, mini discs. Super heavy thing to keep the shelf stable. Yeah, that’s pretty much it.

That’s it. Hope you liked the video.

That was cool man. I love stuff like this. It’s just. I think this sort of this embodies maximalism to me. You know, it’s just kind of like, all right, I’m gonna do this thing.

It’s just gonna have so many screens. It’s gonna look like something from a movie from the Matrix or the Nebuchadnezzar in the Matrix. This. This is max. This is maximalism.

This is what it should look like, Perfect.