Bot Bench I'd Rather Be Building Robots
…So I built you this LEGO contraption so you don’t need to hold that mobile phone anymore.
Can you believe that my wife actually sat there patiently while I built this thing next to her? She was complaining about her arms getting sore from holding up her mobile phone so she could read her E-Book.
LEGO to the rescue! I quickly whipped together a prototype mobile-phone-holder-contraption that keeps the screen at the proper height. It’s really fragile and exploded a few times, much to my wife’s amusement who laughed her ass off as I did my little tantrum dance.
I’ve been given a list of improvements:
- Shoulder pieces need to be cushioned, they’re not very comfortable.
- The bar across the back of the head needs a little cushioning
- It needs to be made lighter.
- Moving your head right should make the phone go forward a page, left should go back a page.
Tammy rocks!
Before construction: “My arms are getting tired.”
During construction: “Can I leave yet?”
After construction: “This could be more comfortable.”
And that’s progress. (Sings “There’s great, big beautiful tomorrow”, featured on Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress.)
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever laughed this hard at a blog post before. Anyway, why not use beams instead of technic bricks? I personally think that would be lighter, and more stable but with less pieces. As for cushinoing, you could try using an axle, and attachting this piece: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=45590 to various parts of it.
I used the studded beams because it was super fast to build with it, no pins needed. I managed to whip this up in a matter of minutes. All my studded beams are in a single big drawer, which is also easier to bring into the living room 🙂