DIY laptop stand cardboard template

I am really looking forward to making this. I think I might store things in the slots. This is going to be great

Thx so much for the awesome idea!!

Thank you so much, it made a whole world of difference. It just goes to show that a little thing done can change peoples lives.

Harman/kardon Sound Sticks.... ROCK ON!!!

I've probably got a laptop that could crumple this one, but it's very big and very old. Don't know if you've ever heard of or seen a Gateway m675 with a 17 inch screen. If you have and had the misfortune of carrying, you'll know it's almost 9 pounds of portable computing power. (Specifications say 8.8 pounds, but we all know it feels heavier)

I have one that might crumple it: old HP from about 2001 or so, came with windows 2000, and is about 1.5 inches thick. it was a low end model...

i saw a brand new laptop at a store with a 20 inch screen and it weighed over 20 pounds i think it had 16 gigs of ram and 2 terabytes of storage.

oh, and I have one that will definitely crumple it, though you probably don't need a stand for it: huge desktop.

I'm thinking of doing one of those and maybe adding two coolers on the back wall to remove the hot air from the laptop's base (i have one of those "cooler tables", but it seems to not work at all... so i have to use my ventilator to cool off this thing).

make sure to have the fans blowing air out of the box and away from the laptop, and add vents *not too much* to have a nice airflow, and also have negative air pressure insider the box. what this does is the negative air pressure actually causes a drop in temperature, and the airflow blows air through the bottom surface of the laptop.

no. all computers I've seen had the fan blowing from the bottom to the side or back. additionally, making a negative pressure in the box puts strain on the computer's fan.

Yes you are right... the strain however is negligible..

Thanks :) my laptops overheat all the time to the point of shutting down. My mom has these cookie cooling racks that I resorted to using before I found this. Works great, the fans don't even run unless its updating. I'm going to try to build one that folds down, without glue, so that you can store it easier. Thanks again :)

i made one for my 10 inch laptop.
i ad a mouse pad and a drawer.

awesome!!!!!!!!!!

I used the same basic design as you, except that I don't have any glue so I had to use a kind of joint to hold the two pieces of cardboard together. I guess an advantage to my design is that I can take it apart easily.

I plan on making the middle section, between the two cross pieces, a semicircular cut on each of them for airflow through the middle section. Right now I can only imagine how hot the center boxes will be once my computer starts doing some serious number crunching

Old newspaper=free cutting mat :D

this is great!!! even though i haven't tried it yet i think its going to be awesome thanks!!! :-)

I'm going to make one with the newToshibaI got for my Birthday(Yay).

just finished mine works good