Desktop AS Whiteboard

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April 23rd, 2010September 21st, 2016 4

Over at Curious Inventor (Atlanta, GA), they were inspired by the whiteboard benchtops at the Freeside Atlanta hackerspace.

For $12, they got a 8×4 foot piece of panel board from a home store and turned it into a desktop they can write on.

4 thoughts on “Desktop AS Whiteboard”

John Baichtal says:

April 24th, 2010 at 10:32 am

Awesome idea.
MilkmanWes says:

April 25th, 2010 at 4:29 am

Paneled the walls of my office with these at a former job for drawing giant flow charts and system diagrams that for some reason wouldn’t fit on an ordinary whiteboard. Also kept a floor to ceiling to do list on one.

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Desktop AS Whiteboard

By Gareth Branwyn