Easy Laptop Stand

Step 6 Attaching the laptop

Measure the width of the laptop and draw two lines on the particle board to center the laptop. Get the measurements from Step 1 for the Velcro and draw lines on the particle board. Take pieces of the rougher Velcro and stick to the particle board along the lines. As an improvement on mine, I would suggest actually wrapping the Velcro around the particle board maybe an inch and put a machine screw on the back side to keep the Velcro from loosening up. The Velcro carries a lot of weight with the laptop hanging on it and when you remove/attach the laptop or take it off to move it up or down, there is even more stress. See Problems.

This part may be done while laying down with the stand over you. Using the laptop width marks on the board, adjust the laptop height to where you fill most comfortable and attach the laptop to the board. Theoretically, the Velcro pieces will line up. I adjusted my laptop so it clears my belly and allows my arms to lie flat on the bed with my hands on the keys.

I have a power cable, an Ethernet cable and an audio cable plugged into my laptop. I bought an extender cable for the audio. I ran all the cables to the left side and used Velcro ties to bundle them to the top and bottom of the left side PVC arm. You should run the all the cables to one side so that you can easily swing the whole assembly to one side so you can get up on the other side.