Laptop docks

2012
Personal project
Design and fabrication
Laptop dock

These laptop holders provide cozy, stable homes for Apple’s venerable 2012 MacBook Pro. The heavy steel bases hold the computer up at a slight angle for comfort and optimal cooling. The smooth, warm wrist rests complement the MacBook’s sharp, cold lines.

Two glass prisms, mounted in machined aluminum with nylon-tipped set screws, ensure that optical access to the laptop's LED indicator and IR remote control sensor is maintained.

I developed these laptop holders while learning about metal and woodworking at Pratt and 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. For other projects made around the same time, see the grill rickshaw and my tables and lamps.