Introduction: Evolution of the Laptop Stand

About: In my free time, I enjoy building/modifying/dismantling anything I can get my hands on. I am currently an engineering student at UCLA and look forward to sharing more projects with the Instructables community…

“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

This except above is one of my favorite quotes from literature.  Like the quote, the book is succinct, choosing to use images to portray sentences if not pages of imagery & emotion.  

Similarly, in an odd way, I like to keep what I bring to school to be succinct too.  In a way, this thought process has been influenced by the elegant nature of the novel but in another, through my habits of biking to school.  After all, it helps to not pack too much on a hilly, 12 mile round trip to and from school.  

This idea that I will be sharing with you is simple, yet elegant.  It's a culmination of various trials and errors and not yet perfected.  

Yet elegant. 

Step 1: Primeval State

After working like this for hours rushing to finish that paper for English, your body is going to be aching.  

Step 2: Generation Numero Uno

Better...at least I am not looking at it eye to eye.

Step 3: The Paragon (at Least for Now) + Finale

Boom.  Just add binder and textbook and you got yourself a comfortable, angled typing platform ready to tackle your 4 other final papers.

Have fun.

Thank you.