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Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by Gracana »

sam-bee wrote: post #116
thesuitonym wrote: post #115

Do I like it? No. Do I want one on my desk? Absolutely not. Do I think it's even brutalist? Not in the least. But it's still a cool as hell project. People need to do more things just because they want to, and to hell with what anyone else thinks.

It's very liberating, crafting something for yourself with no intention of selling.

Yes! Trying to make something that other people want is a good way to take the joy out of a project, and it dulls the uniqueness that could the result something truly special.

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

ibm-freak wrote: post #161

This is quite tasteless… a betrayal of brutalist honesty. And the dildo thing is plainly disgusting. Let’s all be gentlemen and keep that sort of thing off the Net.

The tool used in construction for releasing trapped air bubbles out of poured concrete is called a concrete vibrator (SFW if anyone cares to Google for it). A vibrating ... ahem, personal toy is actually rather a clever substitute for a small scale project like this.

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by neilv »

vunderba wrote: post #88

This looks pretty funny paired with a sleek fancy MacBook though. You need a proper Soviet-esque workstation of a laptop to sit on that concrete block - go get yourself a nice, chunky ThinkPad T530.

You know what has always needed a solid concrete foundation poured is the W700ds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6glQCMpqH7M&t=58s

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by lostlogin »

wheybags wrote: post #135
graypegg wrote: post #78

Oh 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.

Or a cheap plastic/pressed steel footstool.

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by tonymet »

I'm about 75% confident this content is AI generated. Just intuition , no tools used. And I'm assuming our audience is autistic enough to put in the effort to build this. Composition, shadows & lighting seems synthetic.

Kudos to the creativity and no offense to the author. Partly running off a-priori risk model for internet content.

Curious to see if my prediction holds up.

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by graypegg »

wheybags wrote: post #135
graypegg wrote: post #78

Oh 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.

They (tend to) open up to big spaces on the inside! So they feel like... bunker cathedrals maybe? I find them to be interesting spaces!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Station_Radisson_Met...

I'll accept that I'm biased by living here though haha

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by throw-the-towel »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #153

And yet that laptop stand is not even the slightest bit slanted, one of the crucial details. I could simply take a book and put the laptop on top of that, to get the same ergonomic features. I am aware that ergonomic use is not the main point, but it would certainly not have hurt to consider that angle at least a little bit.

Haha, consider that angle. (I'll show myself out.)

Re: Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

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Post by lostlogin »

chasd00 wrote: post #72
TheJoeMan wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even structural items can be made quite thin! There is a college design competition to make concrete canoes which can be 3/8" to 7/16" thick: https://www.concretecanoe.org/2008Triva/Florida2008DesignPap...

oh wow that takes me back. I remember touring, i think it was Texas A&M, in HS and they showed off their "concrete canoe" to the group. This would have been in the late 1900s.. 1995 or around there.

There have been ships made of concrete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship

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