The most obvious issue here is that there needs to be a mat on the top to avoid scratching the bottom of the laptop.
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
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#202Do 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.
Sums up my mother's sculptures, or my kids' drawings. If it serves the artist, it served a purpose. Personally, I have an aluminium laptop stand which makes the laptop dockable but which isn't portable or makes screen/keyboard usable (secure for cats though) and I have a portable, foldable, lightweight plastic one [1]. I also do not enjoy the idea of using the bottom of a laptop on concrete. The latter material isn't…
> I also do not enjoy the idea of using the bottom of a laptop on concrete.
How else could your laptop echo the theme of "Urban decay?"
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#203This is dope af. I love concrete (was just gifted a book about concrete buildings for my birthday last week). I see things like this and remind myself that I have free will. Thanks for the inspiration.
I see things like this and remind myself that I have free will.
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#204if we give it a little more polish, colder/greyer tones and "newness," it would fit very nicely for a Control fan :) EDIT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_E...
as a control fan, i agree. the art direction in that game is something else.
oh, Direc- excuse me, Jesse! have you met esseJ?
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#205work of art!
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same method though. There's a plethora of vibrating things to choose from. I suppose you could mold a large silicone tentacle to put on a jackhammer, too, and use that to fish for bubbles in your cement soup. Call the tool what you want, you haven't changed the method.
Are you guys all trying hard not to say the words dildo, satisfier, or sex toy? Why so? AFAIK it is neither a rude nor a prohibited word.
Nah, I was just being pedantic about the “method” of removing bubbles.
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#207Looks amazing, I love it. Nice work!
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#208I 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…
You could mix concrete with other materiais too. I worked as a lab assistant in a engineering lab for some time. Putting styrofoam into the mix would result in lighter concrete within acceptable levels of resistance (for low level buildings). You might be onto something
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#209Nice!
I've always wanted to build a computer like the iMac G4, with the half sphere, the arm and the monitor. In my street there was a pebble/rock (the size of a rugby ball, pretty smooth surface) laying around near a tree, and I thought of taking it with me as the base for this computer. It's beautiful stone. I should have grabbed it, because now it's gone.
But it required a lot of grinding and sanding to make it ready. I think pouring concrete is a better option for my idea.
Thanks for the inspiration!
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#210The professionals actually use a tool that looks about like a big (BIG) vibrator, along with various other vibrating tools.