I’m still maintaining the belief that I will eventually build the monitor stand that I have mostly in my head and partially (somewhat amateurishly) modelled using Google Sketchup. Not that I have any reason to need a 3d model of my proposed furniture addition, but as 3d models are so often a feature in the process of producing a finished article I figure if I follow the path perhaps I’ll arrive at the same destination. Obviously I don’t really believe that, but sometimes I’m happier if I keep up the pretence!
So having already taken a tumble at the first hurdle of being able to accurately cut lumber, and therefore somewhat putting into question the whole project I decided instead to look at the software component. You may wonder how software comes into a monitor shelf, well this is no ordinary monitor shelf; this one will have a pc integrated into it. Bear with me a second, it’s not as mad as it seems; well actually it probably is, but I noticed that the plinth I’d designed would almost exactly fit an 8inch touchscreen and the void was the ideal size to house a mini-itx motherboard. And who wouldn’t want a PC integrated into their desk?
Today I managed to replicate a piece of user interface I think I designed many years ago. I say I think I designed it because at the time I was working on a piece of software with someone else; I’ll have to ask what their recollection was. I know I definitely named it anyway.