Showing posts with label twelve south. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twelve south. Show all posts

November 23, 2014

Industrial injury to industrial revolution

Panic not dear reader. I am not about to bore you with volume 4 on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The short version of this journey was that I had neck ache so needed to sort my office out giving me a decent monitor to work on. While extracting batteries from the touch pad dohickey, I nearly severed a finger (th industrial injury part). As I was putting things together I realised that my mac takes up too much space so I REALLY wanted to go and buy one of the Twelve South BookArc thing-a-mug-bobs. The cheap ones are not available from the mac store so it was either:

  • £70 - yes, £70, and a few days for the really sweet mahogany effect item to turn up.
  • Or, 3D printing to the rescue

So, a sphere, several rounded edged cube and an hour later (and the industrial revolution bit) I had a simple prototype: