{"id":239,"date":"2012-09-30T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petras.xn--ukys-f6a.lt\/?p=239"},"modified":"2024-01-20T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T08:40:04","slug":"diy-laptop-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petras.shoekeys.lt\/2012\/09\/diy-laptop-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY – Laptop stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introducing one more category – Do It Yourself. Although I’m not very often DIY’er, but since I’ve came here and didn’t brought my so-called laptop stand, I wanted to have one. Because of two reasons – computer internals cooling (CPU temperature drops by 5-10\u00b0C when laptop is a little bit lifted above desk surface) and comfort (angle of keyboard, tilted screen). Days passed, being green person I was sorting my trash into recyclable materials all the time. And when I was unpacking something I found several relatively huge (about A4<\/a>) sheets of corrugated fiberboard.<\/p>\n

Today during day I’ve played around with SketchUp, but that was no actual profit, because… You can do a lot of stuff with SketchUp. But if you are interested, here is the SketchUp model<\/a>\u00a0I’ve made.<\/p>\n

I’ve decided to put digital means of prototyping aside and try everything myself. I had more than enough of resources, so why not go trial-and-error path. And I definitely went towards “error” path on my first attempt. After implementing my month-long ideas I’ve got a design which was not looking that nice but was quite promising.<\/p>\n

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But it lasted about 5 seconds in duty. Mass of my computer allied with the gravity and crushed my dream to the ground (or desk surface)…<\/p>\n

As I said before, I had plenty of resources, so I rethought my plan and tried again. And now I will try to explain the details. Although I do not have any pictures of process itself, at least there will be the result.<\/p>\n

DIY part<\/h2>\n

You will need:<\/p>\n