DIY VESA Gaming Monitor Arm for only $15 | Homemade Gaming Gear 

Haha. Indeed, it turns out my fieldstone basement comes off quite medieval in my earlier videos. I'll likely move my studio back down there someday, but hopefully not until it is finished. Or at the very least, warmer during the winter months.

@@HowToRollDice Keep it, at least the walls. It looks unique and it just needs some spot lightning to brighten up the background.

Glad you enjoyed it. Some people just hate 2x4s I guess :p

I'm guessing kids, im 25 but the young ones don't appreciate this

@@milkboi2386 how so?

They hate it because they bothered watching 18 minutes of video to see a couple pieces of wood and a hinge, when they were expecting a multi-jointed solution with more positions.

@@kireibee4901 For $15?

One of my go to phrases when working on stuff like this.

Very happy to hear that. Thanks for watching. And feel free to reach out once you get your sim setup complete, I'd love to see some pics or a short video.

I was gonna say the same thing, Just a simple counter sink bigger then screw head!

Trust me I was a little nervous. I've found that in most cheap TVs have barely anything inside of them. That 32" is likely run off of a single layer 8"x8" circuit board. So odds were pretty good I'd be safe.

Believe it or not we got 2. Best buy was running a special when the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 came out, and for each phone you got a free $120 22" LCD. They screen quality is far from top tier, but hey, it's free right.

@@HowToRollDice lol I am dead 😂😂

I can probably knock one of those out sometime soon. Keep an eye out. Cable management 101 haha.

If the table was any lighter I certainly would, but luckily, it's very heavy to begin with, so I'm only shift the center of mass a tiny bit. Food for though though for anyone planning their own setup.

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

Happy to. Hope it helps.

Well put.

Ya I could have done that or, if I could have found my counter sinks, I could have counter sunk the hole, however they were missing at the time. Actually went and bought a new set, and then of course immediately found the old ones.

That is actually a studio light. It's for filming and photography. They range from cheap to insanely priced depending on what you need, but the setup I have is actually very powerful and affordable. It essentially comes in 2 pieces. The light itself, which is a daylight balanced LED chip light, and the soft box, which is the large circular attachment that softens and diffuses the light. I like Godox and Neewer (available on amazon or any photo/video site or store) for budget camera gear. I use the Godox SL-60W light, and the Neewer 36" softbox. Combined they come in under $200 and are a real workhorse team for photo/video.

Bees you say. Is it possible I've been missing out on free honey...? I must inspect!

@@HowToRollDice solitary carpenter bees. A bit bigger than a bumble bee. Will drill a hole in the wood about the thickness of a finger and lay eggs. Then more bees come out. If you are unlucky like my father, he cut the wood and found one sleeping in the hole. It was a surprise. Might be a good idea to get the ones with the nails. Surprises under leaves aren't fun. Those bees drill into your house as well. I'm constantly shooting them down.

That's the idea. Glad you liked it!

I don't recall off the top of my head, but it will be unique to the TV you are mounting and the material you are mounting it to. The threading and size of the screws will likely be M4x10mm. But the length will be up to your setup. You generally want to add 1/2" or 15mm to the thickness of your mounting material. So if you are using 1" or 25mm thick board, you would want a screw length of 1.5" or 40mm.

How To Roll Dice ok thank you I am mounting it to wood and I am mounting a monitor 35 inch sound 5 pounds

Oh theres so much I could have done better. And next time I have to do something similar, I will. That's the learning part 😊

Thanks. I try to tell myself that every morning in the mirror haha.

2019 Dell G5 with several factory options as well as personal mods. 32GB DDR4 2666, Nvidia 1660ti, intel 9th gen i7 9750 boosting to 4.5Ghz.

@@HowToRollDice Thats a nice one! i am gonna make this for my 32 inch samsung monitor im so exitef

exited*

Not at all. People who don't mess around with woodworking or furniture-making often underestimate the strength of wood. Even simple cheap construction lumber, which, where I come from is pine. I could throw a couple of screws into a pair for 2x4s and hang from it myself, 250 lbs, and it would hold. The monitor in question here is 5lb at most.

@@HowToRollDice yeah I never mess around with woodworking, hated it not my cup of tea, yeah but great vid btw the quality was crisp

Trust me you're not alone. I have a solid case of engineer brain, so I'm always breaking devices and objects down into their simplest form in my head and wondering how I could most efficiently replicate them for less than market price. This kicked into overdrive when my wife and I bought our home, a 250 year old french farm house. For example, a proper kitchen butchers block costs about $1000 on most nice sites. I looked at a few, determined how to assemble a basic design, and built my wife one for about $50. It's not perfect, and I'm sure I could do a better job now than I did then, but that's true of any practiced skill. And the point is I know no how to make a butcher block.

@@HowToRollDice wow, you seem to have an Interesting channel subbed

Haha. Nice.

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The real answer is no, but I'm gonna say yes anyways cause it sounds much cooler.

@@HowToRollDice love it! There is so much opportunity for interior styling. Also nice idea with the vesa-not-vesa-mount. So simple yet effective!

Strong agree.

An interesting take. How much do you think you could get it down to? I figure at the very least you need: 2' 2X4 (though normally the shortest you can buy is 6') = $3 1'x1' square of plywood (though normally sold in sheets of 4'x4') = $3 A sturdy hinge with hardware = $3 Some woodscrews (12pc is normally the lowest count) = $3 Some machine screws (12pc is normally the lowest count) = $3 Obviously if you have these things lying around like I did, you won't have to pay much out of pocket, but they still have value. I can't see getting the price much below $15, but I'd love to get a write-up of any improved cost saving measures. We could make it a little engineering challenge. Who can make the cheapest yet still functional VESA stand. Also, thanks for watching! :)

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@@HowToRollDice Sry about that, i commented on the wrong vid. there was a scammer who will steal your steam acc

No worries. Scammers man... They'll get'cha.

Haha. Not quite no. Though I live in a large old farm house with many rooms, when my wife and I were looking for a home, we failed to factor in that she would become a Twitch streamer and need her own studio and at the same time I would launch a RU-vid channel and also need my own studio. At this point I had converter one of our basements into a temporary studio. I've since moved up into one of the spare rooms in the house, which is much nicer. The downside is, as we grow our family over the next 3 to 5 years, I'm going to lose my studio to a child, so by then I'll hopefully have finished one or both of the basements into a nice functional space.

I know right?!