BTW - Michael: your diagram with the arrows is absolutely correct, but your interpretation of it is wrong. For the computer to stay upright, the blue arrow would have to be _exactly_ on top of the point where the 'rails' (feet) touch the desk. (Otherwise the computer is going to roll back until the center of gravity is as close to the desk as it can get, which will be with the computer lying on its back.)
If you can get the blue arrow over the point of contact between the computer and the desk, the computer would be stable and not tip over. It would still rock, however. That's another issue. Somehow i think the rocking chair base idea is just not going to be practical. Possible, yes, but not practical.
BTW - i must say that your drawing skills are getting very good. Are you planning to go into graphic design?
BTW - Michael: your diagram with the arrows is absolutely correct, but your interpretation of it is wrong. For the computer to stay upright, the blue arrow would have to be _exactly_ on top of the point where the 'rails' (feet) touch the desk. (Otherwise the computer is going to roll back until the center of gravity is as close to the desk as it can get, which will be with the computer lying on its back.)
If you can get the blue arrow over the point of contact between the computer and the desk, the computer would be stable and not tip over. It would still rock, however. That's another issue. Somehow i think the rocking chair base idea is just not going to be practical. Possible, yes, but not practical.
BTW - i must say that your drawing skills are getting very good. Are you planning to go into graphic design?
-robo</strong><hr></blockquote>
yes i supose you are right. I was drawing it so it will look cool and sort of work. An engeener would have to REALLY make it work.
Thanks for the complement on my drawings. Yes I have came a long way since last year.
That is a mock up I did last year about this time of an LCD iMac. I think it is safe to say I have come a long way. Yes I would love to go into graphic desing.
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ahem.
But anyway, "the design" is quite laughable as it is, Mikey.
BTW - Michael: your diagram with the arrows is absolutely correct, but your interpretation of it is wrong. For the computer to stay upright, the blue arrow would have to be _exactly_ on top of the point where the 'rails' (feet) touch the desk. (Otherwise the computer is going to roll back until the center of gravity is as close to the desk as it can get, which will be with the computer lying on its back.)
If you can get the blue arrow over the point of contact between the computer and the desk, the computer would be stable and not tip over. It would still rock, however. That's another issue. Somehow i think the rocking chair base idea is just not going to be practical. Possible, yes, but not practical.
BTW - i must say that your drawing skills are getting very good. Are you planning to go into graphic design?
-robo
<strong>I think buture means butcher.
BTW - Michael: your diagram with the arrows is absolutely correct, but your interpretation of it is wrong. For the computer to stay upright, the blue arrow would have to be _exactly_ on top of the point where the 'rails' (feet) touch the desk. (Otherwise the computer is going to roll back until the center of gravity is as close to the desk as it can get, which will be with the computer lying on its back.)
If you can get the blue arrow over the point of contact between the computer and the desk, the computer would be stable and not tip over. It would still rock, however. That's another issue. Somehow i think the rocking chair base idea is just not going to be practical. Possible, yes, but not practical.
BTW - i must say that your drawing skills are getting very good. Are you planning to go into graphic design?
-robo</strong><hr></blockquote>
yes i supose you are right. I was drawing it so it will look cool and sort of work. An engeener would have to REALLY make it work.
Thanks for the complement on my drawings. Yes I have came a long way since last year.
That is a mock up I did last year about this time of an LCD iMac. I think it is safe to say I have come a long way. Yes I would love to go into graphic desing.
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<strong>LOL, the "buture" question was a joke
SURE, thats what they all say!
-Paul
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