Modified Laptop Stand

Anthony Garcia Martinez
10/09/2020
Makerbot Thingiverse Challenge

My name is Anthony Garcia Martinez, and I would like to present my project: The Modified laptop stand. When designing my project, I thought of students who may not have sufficient room for a desk, an adequate study area back at home, or cannot afford one. With these reasons in mind, I designed my project to be compact to save room, while also giving students enough space to hold their laptops and a retractable desk-like surface so they can write and do homework. This Modified Laptop Stand is also equipped with compartments on either side to give students the liberty to organize loose papers and even smaller sections on top to place smaller items like pencils and pens and even an external mouse. Now that students are all learning virtually, an issue that they face is the overheating of their laptops. As a solution, I decided to incorporate cooling fans under the laptop stand as well as a grate that