I have a stack of laptops I use for work. I typically rotate the one I need to the top of the stack, plug in cables for the monitor and keyboard.
The laptop stack sits on top of my regular computer. The PC case is turned sideways and vent holes are facing the top and bottom instead of the sides. I wanted to be able to help airflow to those panels.
1st Pass: I cut a set of acrylic risers to get the PC off the tabletop and allow some air to get pulled in from the bottom of the case:
2nd pass: I added another set of risers for the top to hold a platform that will allow me to set my laptop on top for that sweet dual monitor action. My platform has the logo from our Little Free Library.
3rd pass:
- A larger platform with notches that lock the risers in place. The smaller platform would occasionally tip over the risers when I was shuffling laptops.
- More ventilation holes.
- A cable catch. I have a stack of laptops that I have to cycle through. Sometimes I would drop the HDMI cable when swapping and have to fish it back out from behind the desk.
