Help needed for constructing iPad watching post?


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Old 05-30-16, 05:37 PM
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Help needed for constructing iPad watching post?

I just bought a new recliner to put in my room. Im saving up for a TV, but I want to still watch TV on my iPad until then. I dont want to have to hold the iPad on my lap, or have a table to put it on. I was considering just suspending it from the ceiling with string, but that would look horrible. Maybe something that would attach to the wall like this?Name:  ipad-wall-mount.jpg
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I need it to be cheap, if not free. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
 
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Old 05-30-16, 06:20 PM
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How about a DIY accordion arm made from wood. On the end a piece of Masonite with a horizontal wood piece at the top and bottom that had a groove in it to hold the edge of the tablet or simpler a narrow shelf on the bottom and diagonal elastic loops at each corner.

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You could buy an Otter Box for your Ipad. It forms an angular shelf that you can rest on your lap, similar to a laptop. Having an Ipad so far away on a wall would cause eye strain.
 
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You can also search/look for "computer monitor arm".
 
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Wink Those are all awesome ideas! Thank you!

Those are all awesome ideas! Thank you!
 
 

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