Is that surface concrete? Will it scratch the laptop?
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Vibration? Thought it was pretty common.
The article does mention a very specific choice of vibration equipment.
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.
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#33I love concrete as a medium but that's got to be heavy af and I would manage to smack my elbow on it all the time as well as smash my coffee mug on it.
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#34Related: 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.)
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Next up: Brutalist desk
There are some subtly weak floors out there, where placing such a desk could be fatal.
Never mind placing it, bringing it to the place where it should be, er, placed might also be a challenge. Unless you can drive a forklift into your office...
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#36Is it just me or can you all hear the sound of the metal/aluminum scratching against the concrete?
Loved the brutalist movie, this actually seems quite nice assthetically.
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#37I 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…
> Maybe with clever use of fillers and thin walls you could have a version of this you could actually lift
You could likely also pour something like this out of aircrete, which would make it a lot lighter even at the same thickness
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#38if 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...
At first I thought you were talking about an actual rotating fan, which would be an awesome addition to this. Just a small PC fan running at a very low RPM built into the side in a circular cutout, with that worn metal patina look.
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#39I 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…
People who make concrete counter tops use a lot of fibreglass fillers to get them fairly thin but if you wanted it truly light weight you’d probably need to make it out of a dense foam and coat it with something that looks like concrete.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are some subtly weak floors out there, where placing such a desk could be fatal.
Never mind placing it, bringing it to the place where it should be, er, placed might also be a challenge. Unless you can drive a forklift into your office...
I took it to the office on a little trolley thing