"The Teknogrimoire" Laptop
Cover
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is a faux leather case for my laptop, designed to look
like a medieval grimoire, or spellbook, sorta like the
thing to the right |
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the thumbnails for a larger image |
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This is my laptop. Those little squares are velcro. |
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| I started with a big 3-ring photo binder from the craft store, sliced it apart, trimmed it to size, moved the metal corner supports to the "front" of the book, and restitched the edges |  |
| This pic shows one of the covers cut to size and restitiched |  |
| Both of them trimmed.... |  |
| I got some hinges from the local hardware megastore. |  |
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I layed them out, aligned them, clamped them, and after a few quick welds and grinds, we've got a cool clunky-looking medieval book spine. >PROTIP: First, remove the original pins from the hinges and use a long piece of rod to act as one long hingepin. This will keep the hinges in alignment while welding and will prevent the hinge from binding. |
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| Here's the spine layed in place |  |
| closeup |  |
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Above
is the rough design for the metal plate that will adorn
the spine. The red line indicates where there will be
a cutout for a small door that will fold down for access
to the rear plugs. |
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The
laptop I was using for this project broke shortly
after the above photos were taken (unrelated, documented
design flaw in the HP Pavilions) and the Teknogroimoire
was absorbed back into the pool of primordial creative
ooze that is my workshop. I later sunk a few hundred
dollars into parts to repair the laptop, and it eventually
became the core of "Datamancer's
Steampunk Laptop".
The leather for the wrist rests on the laptop was
also cut from the covers of this grimoire. |
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