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We have some important news to share about HackSpace: Issue 81 was the last issue of HackSpace as a standalone magazine, and HackSpace has become part of The MagPi, the official Raspberry Pi magazine. Starting with issue 145, We’ll be adding pages to The MagPi to make room for the stories and tutorials you’ve come to expect from HackSpace.

(Laptop) Stand in the place where you work

By Andrew Gregory. Posted

Having a shiny laptop means you can work wherever you want, but when you’re working on a cramped laptop keyboard for a long period of time, your wrists will let you know about it. That’s why separate keyboards and laptop stands are useful; for raising the screen to your eyes and giving you the space to use a proper keyboard to get more mileage out of your fragile human joints.

This MacBook Pro stand is by Paul Markham, who based it on an existing design by Nicolas Iragorri. The reason for the new version is that Apple has changed the hinge on its laptops, reducing the angle that you can open them; this made Nicolas’s original design obsolete, as it set the laptop at a steep angle. Thanks to open-source, sharing, and the power of 3D printing, Paul could tweak the design and come up with his own, which everyone
can download.

hsmag.cc/oBqwdN

Hook

There’s no law to say that ordinary objects can’t be good-looking. Take this peg for instance: it’s a simple design, perfectly functional, and you can choose whatever colour you like to suit the rest of your minimalist home decor.

Nice things don’t look nice by accident: this is the work of Ocet Design, aka Tomasz Golánski and Julia Grochal. You can find more of their work at
www.ocetdesign.com, and the files to download your own industrial chic
peg below.

hsmag.cc/YbmZYH

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