A co-worker sent this joke earlier in the week and knew I would love it because, it’s LEGO! I also hate meetings in general, unless it involves pizza, pinball and games! However, I just couldn’t imitate this person’s design. It isn’t symmetrical for starters. I started out with a spare set I have from the Everyone is Awesome set. It got the initial job done but it wasn’t very structurally sound. You need the core bricks, the standard 2 x 4 with the thin pieces to brace stuff up.
After a couple failures, I finally perfected this…
Not only is it symmetrical, there’s a notch for it to grab on to my portable’s lid or top case with the proper amount of weight to keep it even! Thus you get the right headshot for a FaceTime, Zoom, WebEx, whatever conference.
Later, I will get help from the Kragl to keep it from coming apart. You got it, I dropped it a couple times and it shattered despite the special bricks to make it stronger and brace the weak points. I’m not worried about these LEGO pieces being taken out of commission neither. I’m going to enjoy this videoconference solution! The final step will be getting a solid or deep green background for chroma-key usage. Then the avatars could be calling in from anywhere in the universe!
Now I just got inspired to build an iPhone holder for future guests Kathy and I cannot have around physically. Namely friends who live in Europe, the Middle East and obviously faraway cities in the US and Canada. The hard part will be making room for the cabling to run from the iPhone to the audio board; need to ask Kathy if the board provides power to the iPhone which could limit the duration of the interview.