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Building a Sturdy, Steel Sliding Mount for 3 Computer Monitors

Building a Sturdy, Steel Sliding Mount for 3 Computer Monitors

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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Faced with the prospect of moving three times in one year, Mitch Willing built a sliding steel mount for his 3 monitors and computer.

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Pi-Top Goes to Indiegogo to Fund Raspberry Pi Desktop

Pi-Top Goes to Indiegogo to Fund $99 Raspberry Pi Desktop

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Pi-Top has recently started shipping the original Pi-Top to its crowdfunding backers. Alongside this, they’ve also kicked off a new crowdfunding campaign, this time for a desktop.

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A Simple, Inexpensive Computer for Developing Nations Hits it Big at Home

A Simple, Inexpensive Computer for Developing Nations Hits it Big at Home

By George LeVines

George LeVines

George LeVines is a writer in Massachusetts

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A Kickstarter campaign for Endless Computer, a low cost desktop unit aimed at the developing world, has eclipsed its $100,000 funding goal with 22 days left on its campaign. “This product has been designed in the developing world, side by side with our users,” the Endless team wrote. “We went into the field and into people’s […]

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Make a desktop-embedded USB hub

Make a desktop-embedded USB hub

By John Edgar Park

John Edgar Park

John Edgar Park likes to make things and tell people about it. He builds project for Adafruit Industries. You can find him at jpixl.net and twitter/IG @johnedgarpark

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Wires, wires everywhere. I don’t like looking at wires, wires everywhere. Even though I have a USB hub, it’s a bit of an eyesore sitting on top of my desk, plugged into devices up top, and my computer down below. I decided it was time to embed the hub directly into the surface of the desk. Using the Dremel Multi-Max to plunge-cut the wood desktop, I fit the USB hub into the desk, and attached the hub to the underside using brackets. It’s now stable, stylish, and out of the way.

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