Macbook Air Stand V1

prusaprinters

<p>This is a remix of <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1495909">prior work</a>. From one of the sources I took the crossbar and having both sides of the stand in the same size, from the other source I took the smaller claw to hold the fine Macbook Air edge. I created an <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/87563-macbook-air-stand-v2">updated version</a> of it which is more lightweight and flexible.</p><p>The use case for this stand is to hold the laptop up on my chest while I lie in bed and avoid getting cramps in my hands trying to balance it manually.</p><p>Category: Computer</p><p><strong>Critique:</strong><br>After a few days of using it I can say it works as expected. The laptop is held safely, the stand is stable, with even 2 crossbars it is sturdy.</p><p>Still there are a few drawbacks:<br>- It is too large.&nbsp;<br>- Half of the construction has no functional role to play, at all. The laptop has a slight bend on it's lower surface and that means that only the lower part of the holder has contact to the laptop's body, the rest is just there (Z). And in the other dimension, let's call it Y, it is at least questionable whether all that material is needed for the function.&nbsp;<br>- Print time is a bitch.<br>- The construction is based on a triangle but only 2 sides of the triangle have a function. One side holds the laptop's back, the downside has to be plain so to rest on whatever surface the holder is on. But the back side has no potential function.&nbsp;<br>- The holder is not flexible. Sometimes I want the laptop in a steeper angle.</p><p>I designed <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/87563-macbook-air-stand-v2">a v2 of it</a> along those ideas.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>