Further to my previous post re: extending the life of paper and plastic grocery bags, here’s one for you: the DIY Laptop Sunshade made out of paper grocery bags ;-).
A friend and I were talking the other day about how great it would be to have a portable, “good-looking”, laptop sunshade, that we could attach to our laptops, so we could sit outside, enjoy the sun, and still see our monitor.
I did a bit of research and came across some pretty fuggly and/or cumbersome solutions, and started thinking about coming up with a design/manufacturing one myself, using the likes of Ponoko.
However, given my desire to re-use/extend the life of materials already in existence, I thought I’d bite the bullet and produce a sunshade for my laptop out of some of the paper bags I have lying around here (actually, they’re in a neat pile under the sink).
I’ve posted instructions/pictures on how I created version 1.0, so that others who might be interested can follow-suit. See: DIY Laptop Sunshade (posted to the website, www.instructables.com).
The finished product: Laptop with DIY Laptop Sunshade.
Versus: Laptop without the DIY Laptop Sunshade.
Don’t hesitate to ask further questions and make suggestions on my instructions page on www.instructables.com.
Oh, and after I finished uploading the photos for this posting, I wrote this entire entry outside in the beautiful Santa Monica sun!
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