Now I need to make a concrete laptop
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
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#133OK I thought this was a late April Fools until I kept scrolling.
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#134I wonder what the practical limit is on how thin and light you can make concrete for non-structural items? I can see someone selling concrete mugs on Etsy, for example. Maybe with clever use of fillers and thin walls you could have a version of this you could actually lift. It looks great, especially in contrast to a white IKEA-style office. Re: decay, I regret not taking more photos of the final days of the RBS "Zig…
I've read that adding a little bit of graphene can make concrete much stronger, lighter and easy to shape, so would allow for thinner objects.
There are a lot of additives to concrete - the industry is large and has put a lot of money into research over the decades. You can read many many books on the pros and cons of different options.
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#135Oh man... I've never worked with concrete, but I would love to make a desk stand that looked like a little montréal métro station. They're all rather brutalist, and have flat tops haha https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Station_Radisson_Met...
That thing looks like giant pillbox bunker.
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#136Related: Anyone know where to get that kind of keyboard in the photo? Specifically, where the number pad and arrow keys are on the left? I've been looking and looking, but the best I can find is using a narrow keyboard with a separate number-pad only keyboard on the left. I'm in the US. (It's better for your right shoulder to keep the mouse closer to your body like in the picture.)
Yeah I would suggest you stick some wood on your left side of your current keyboard, for a few days to see if you can adapt... I always used that space as a resting place, so having it occupied totally broke my flow. (If I needed a numpad I would have it standing alone.. those are easy to find)
Like I said, I'm already using a separate number pad on the left.
It's easier to adapt to than than putting the mouse in my left hand!
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#137If you want to get a feel of what brutalist architecture is like up close, go to the Barbican in london if you can. Its quite surreal. Very much in-your-face concrete exposure. Yet, to walk and experience it with your eyes is a study of contrasts: a giant, comparitively modern, greenhouse, has a glass roof open to the sky and yet many floors have no light or windows at all. And in the outdoor spaces, like the fountai…
The Barbican is not a typical brutalist construction. The term brutalist refers to béton brut, which means raw concrete. I.e. you can see the shape of the wooden slats used as a cast. The concrete in the Barbican was finished by drilling to create a dappled pattern, which obliterated the shape of the slats. There are also lots of post modern elements. For example, the columns of the girl’s school have pyramids at the…
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as a control fan, i agree. the art direction in that game is something else.
I was delighted to see that a sequel is coming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJTBoQhWaC0 The maze level on the original game has to be an all-time best level design.
> I was delighted to see that a sequel is coming
the sequel trailer got me into the first game, actually :)) and I'm already sold on these recursive pigeons. is it multiplicative resonance?
> all-time best level design
well, the only worthy contenders are DEATHLOOP and Dishonored 2 :>
but yeah, Remedy does deserve every award they got with Control
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#139This is the kind of content that I come to HN for. Well done, OP. I love the product and inspiration.
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Next up: Brutalist desk
There are some subtly weak floors out there, where placing such a desk could be fatal.
The funny thing is that in the 21st century, concrete can be quite light.
Well, there were people that made light concrete on the 20th century too. But not it's accessible to anybody.