DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Matt Embrey in DIY

DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand

Cardboard Laptop Stand

Get your laptop off the table and stop hunching over to see the screen with this 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…

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Step 1: Download the pattern & print it out.  Use an old sheet of paper that you were going to 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)

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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.  

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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.

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The best part is, you can take it apart and it’s flat and light so it can go wherever your lappy goes.

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98 Responses to “ DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand ”

  1. acidcloud

    09. May, 2009

    That is genius my friend. Nice.

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  2. nate tenczar

    09. May, 2009

    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…

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  3. Andrew

    09. May, 2009

    That HP keyboard matches surprisingly well with the MB.

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  4. Aayush Tuladhar

    09. May, 2009

    Awsome.. Idea

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  5. voryboydrof

    10. May, 2009

    Прикольная статья, но хотелось бы поподробнее узнать о некоторых моментах… Как можно с Вами связаться?

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  6. Cephalopod

    10. May, 2009

    You, my friend are a modern MacGyver.

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  7. toybox

    10. May, 2009

    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.

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  8. Al Zwikker

    10. May, 2009

    Check this out

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  9. ionitinnysmog

    10. May, 2009

    Понравилась статья. А будет ли продолжение ?

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  10. Ben

    10. May, 2009

    Doesn’t work very well isn’t very stable!

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  11. Timo

    11. May, 2009

    thanks. works great. I put a lamp under it, so it lits my external keyboard as well.

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  12. mick

    11. May, 2009

    must be a joke…

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  13. James Bond

    11. May, 2009

    Come on…sucks to the nth degree but “Green” for you for the effort

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  14. williamcheah

    12. May, 2009

    The trick is to cut it parallel to the grain.

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  15. Parsiuk

    14. May, 2009

    What’s the point…?

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    • PhillerUp

      16. May, 2009

      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.

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  16. elle

    16. May, 2009

    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.

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  17. Kylie Lautner

    16. May, 2009

    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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  18. Mowgoowlkal

    17. May, 2009

    Давайте поменяемся постовыми? Моя почта engivelve@mail.ru

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  19. Small Laptop Computers

    18. May, 2009

    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.

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  20. Ambalaje

    31. May, 2009

    that green blog is indeed something nice we also have a website called ambalaje with the same idea behind

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  21. vaibhav dugar

    31. May, 2009

    this is awesome stuff.. i made one to keep my telephone, telephone directory and pen stand..
    all from waste cardboard..

    chk..

    http://www.merosoch.com/2008/08/10/how-to-make-a-business-plan/

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  22. pika505

    08. Jun, 2009

    this stand doesnt work my laptop crushed it

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  23. dee

    28. Jun, 2009

    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.

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  24. William

    19. Jul, 2009

    That was great, now where is the bookmark button…

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  25. sam avakian

    22. Jul, 2009

    It looks good for photobooth but I couldn’t download the templates…. I am just wondering how to get the templates
    to try out….

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  26. London Escort Girls

    28. Jul, 2009

    Thanks for this article. It was very interesting to read it. I like anything connected to that matter. I hope to read more soon.

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  27. Christopher

    09. Aug, 2009

    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.

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  28. Oliver

    14. Aug, 2009

    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. :)

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  29. RecoveryBull

    18. Aug, 2009

    This is a wonderful idea, cost effective environment friendly also it saves lots of space and money as well.
    It’s just wonderful.

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  30. josh

    20. Aug, 2009

    That is amazingly awesome, something I’m definitely going to try out. I’d like to see your take on indoor lighting too.

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  31. Haywood Jablome

    24. Aug, 2009

    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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  32. CB

    28. Sep, 2009

    wicked!!

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  33. Yeah I definitely agree with you. Key to understanding that issue here.

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  34. Maemo

    10. Oct, 2009

    А вы Доктора Хауса смотрите? Там похожие выражения я слышал =))

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  35. Singapore Warehouses

    18. Oct, 2009

    Nice post I Like your site very well and continue to do so. I have bookmarked your site Singapore Warehouses.

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  36. Paul

    24. Oct, 2009

    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

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  37. kids english camp

    27. Oct, 2009

    Amazing Idea, thanks

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  38. Натан

    28. Oct, 2009

    Интересно, если текст c вашего сайта копировать, ссылку куда лучше ставить прямо на эту страницу или же на главную страницу.

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  39. savaProordisa

    30. Oct, 2009

    Брааво, ллестящая фназа и своевременно

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  40. English Language camp

    27. Oct, 2009

    Amazing Idea, thanks
    English Language camp

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