DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand
Get your laptop off the table and stop hunching over to see the screen with this DIY cardboard laptop stand. It’s small, light, free & green and it will help you cut down on the trips to the chiropractor. Did I mention it’s super easy to make? I originally found this idea at Thingiverse.com, where Erik Skiff whipped up a pretty cool acrylic stand. I didn’t have any acrylic and more importantly I didn’t have a lazer cutter make the cuts, so I did it on cardboard. I modified the design a little so the pattern would fit on a regular letter sized sheet of paper. Check out our tutorial…
This is all you need
Step 1: Download the pattern & print it out. Use an old sheet of paper that you were going to recycle so you don’t waste a new sheet.
Step 2: Cut it out, and trace it on the box. Stencil “1″ is the base and it is only half of it so you’ll have to trace it onto the box, then flip it so it mirrors the outline you just made. You’ll have to trace stencil “2″ twice as we need two of these. (click on the images to enlarge)
Step 3: Cut out the patterns. If you have a box cutter or an exacto knife, it’ll be a lot easier, but if not, it can be done with scissors.
Step 4: Put it all together. the flat side of part 1 goes against the table and you slide the slots of part 2 into part 1’s slots.
The best part is, you can take it apart and it’s flat and light so it can go wherever your lappy goes.
Source: Thiniverse
That is genius my friend. Nice.
this is one of those things where I was like hey! this looks pretty cool, then I spent half an hour creating it only to have my laptop slide off of it because the after cutting the ends that hold the laptop up became flimsy and gave way easily.
if I had a better exacto knife/box cutter this would have been much cooler…
That HP keyboard matches surprisingly well with the MB.
Awsome.. Idea
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You, my friend are a modern MacGyver.
is that a joke ?
Spending an hour cutting something pointless and dangerously fragile makes it worth mentioning ? This is at most some naïve romantic attempt at greening contemporary banality.
The +35$ rotring trio silver doesn’t make you a designer, for sure. Oh my, why those curves already.
this is a joke….it’s very fragile… it’s stupid
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Понравилась статья. А будет ли продолжение ?
Doesn’t work very well isn’t very stable!
thanks. works great. I put a lamp under it, so it lits my external keyboard as well.
must be a joke…
Come on…sucks to the nth degree but “Green” for you for the effort
The trick is to cut it parallel to the grain.
What’s the point…?
The point is to make a cheap stand that also saves the environment. Cardboard is also stronger than you think. I’m taking away your internets for being clueless.
Might be a no-brainer, but don’t bother if your laptop weighs 5 lbs. or more, or has a 17″ screen. It’ll work for about an hour before the front supports start to sag. Even tried it with two separate Amazon boxes, adding an extra support, lowering the angle - the weak spots are the curved “hooks” that hold it up.
A 17″ MacBook Pro might make it because it’s a little lighter than my old Gateway. That’s probably the upper limit on this.
Finally got around to make it. My laptop is too heavy, the stand just won’t support it :/
Wonderful idea. I originally saw this on Lifehacker.com, and decided to check it out.
I made two of these, the first of cardboard and colored duct tape, but found that a foam poster board left over from a cancelled English project turned out to be much more efficient.
Thanks for the idea! Saved me lots of dinero!
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Very creative idea. This took a lot of work to design and makes sense. Heat is the enemy of laptop computers and this will help keep the computer cool and prolong it’s life.
that green blog is indeed something nice we also have a website called ambalaje with the same idea behind
this is awesome stuff.. i made one to keep my telephone, telephone directory and pen stand..
all from waste cardboard..
chk..
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this stand doesnt work my laptop crushed it
It’s so sad to know that there are so many idiotic people on earth. You have to cut “against the grain”.
Like a soft drink straw or soup can (cylinder).
It’s what gives cardboard boxes their strength to stack on top of one another.
That was great, now where is the bookmark button…
It looks good for photobooth but I couldn’t download the templates…. I am just wondering how to get the templates
to try out….
Thanks for this article. It was very interesting to read it. I like anything connected to that matter. I hope to read more soon.
Thanks a lot! I just finished my stand. I made some changes to gain stability and now i feel safe to put my powerbook 15″ on it. Let`s see how long this will last.
I built mine with a few extra supports (second bottom support, and a top support to keep them from caving in) and I’m planning on super gluing it all together to make it even stronger. I doubt this will last incredibly wrong, but it was a fun project none the less.
This is a wonderful idea, cost effective environment friendly also it saves lots of space and money as well.
It’s just wonderful.
That is amazingly awesome, something I’m definitely going to try out. I’d like to see your take on indoor lighting too.
If you really want to save the environment, shut up, go outside, drink tap water and don’t use a laptop. They are filled with toxic materials.
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Yeah I definitely agree with you. Key to understanding that issue here.
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While this looks cool, I’m not sure I’d trust it with 2 grand of hardware, esp knowing how slippery the base of a MacBook can be. If I can make a suggestion… Double up or tripple up the pieces, glue them together, Adjust width of notches, then assemble. Should stand up to a table bump.
Cheers
Paul
Amazing Idea, thanks
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I think it’s fragile
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Hi the cardboard laptop stand looks very beautiful. I think it will be comfortable for the users to use on the card board and to watch videos it will be convenient …….
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DIY cardboard laptop stand !!! i t can hold a laptop in a better way That while watching a video it will be a better view then in nornam case….I have gone through many blogs but I found yours the most interesting…. I m looking forward for more of your work…
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Wow this cardboard stand looks really good. Its good that the cardboard stand gets damaged instead of our laps in case of any accidents. Loved the pictures. Please keep posting more such articles.
Works great. It took me only about 30 mins to set it up.
I can suggest you one thing that if it is possible to fix a fans to the card board stand that cool down the laptop processor ….. it will be an advantage to you..
Please dont mind me saying like this …. i want to know how many days the card board stand can support the laptop…. how safe is the laptop with that stand …. please reply….
Hi This is just great. Laptop cardboard stand. Great idea. Hey I made my laptop stand with pasting two cardboads together and then cut it as you instructed. The stand is now much stronger.
Fantastic idea you provide here, thanks
My notebook is so much heavy to this .
Try doubling up the cardboard. With enough layers it should hold any beast of a computer you may have.
Some very interesting and insightful thoughts. I like this.^_^ because I have a blog about laptops too.
aint too sure why u need to prop so high
i just wanna lift the the back at a slight angle
so that the heat can flow away…
but i will amend the design …
thanks
The height is to bring the screen up to eye level so you don’t have to look down. More ergonomic.
Very Nice idea, it’s not a joke, thanks
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lol macs suck.
I first made one of cardboard, then opted to make a more long term one out of junk pieces of plywood my father had in his garage.
The cardboard stand was “strong” enough- the tensile strength of the cardboard itself could support the weight, but the stand was moderately unstable, and I barely missed a disaster when my macbook decided to slide right off.
Great idea you list here, thanks for sharing
Amazing Idea, thanks!