The iPad wasn't high enough for Laura where she was sitting on the couch, so our friend in California could see her properly. The table mount in prior photos was not quite high enough either. I had been thinking about converting a weird heavy tripod stand for some lighting or instrument thing I had been given by my buddy Roger into a stand for the iPad and went to town. This fix took literally 10 minutes or less. I had some scrap wood left from my guitar mod in the kitchen, so ran out there and placed it on the edge of the freezer, with the edge I wanted cut parallel to the edge of the freezer and the bit I didn't want hanging off. Then came the power elbow, martial arts style. Done wrong I guarantee, if Doni had seen it. :p It took two to cut through the wood on one side, and one to get the other side. I basically made a triangular piece to clamp onto, once a hole was drilled through it for the stand mount itself. Then I grabbed my recently bought Black and Decker corded drill, 6 amp for those playing at home, and found a place I liked center wise, held it carefully with one hand over the trash can and drilled like a champ, monitoring the top of the wood for ANY sudden wobble which would have meant I just drilled my hand upon the wood spinning around, or whatever. Widened the hole a bit, then added it to the stand, using a hammer to push it over the sleeve just a bit more. Perfect! We have literally 3 or more planes of orientation to customize how the mount sits in relation to the plane of the viewer. For now, until I make, buy, or modify an actual angled iPad viewing stand to affix sturdily to this multipurpose stand, as it can be used for anything now, it's the same as the table mount, hand towel in the jaws of the vice to keep anything from getting crunched. Laura prefers the iPad in landscape mode, rather than portrait, so the diaper I made no longer suffices and I need to make a new one for the vice to guard the crunch a bit more AND to allow it a bit of vertical stability. Yes, I do realize that I should have become an engineer. I think of this sometimes, but am glad to just have the ability to be creative like this. Just another example of my mind's power to alter the world around me. Oh yeah!

I have an old metal hand drill. On the left, right, and back of the drill there are holes for a threaded handle. Those holes gave me and idea that I could use coarse threaded bolts to hold the drill vertical and I could build a wooden box for a cheap DIY spindle sander. The drill also has a button to keep it running. Scrap 3/4" Plywood, screws every 2", and three coarse-threaded 5/16" bolts. I also drilled some holes to hold the spindles and key chuck for organization. Hope these photos give you some ideas. The hardest part is getting the drill perfectly vertical, but a long bit and a L Square will get it just right.