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Fixing the tablet to a vertical surface with your own hands. Tablet Mounts Wall Mount Holder for 10" Tablet

Tablet mounts are functional mounts that allow you to fix the device at a certain angle and in a certain position on a table or on a wall. You can buy high-quality brackets at an affordable cost in the Kron-Shop online store.

Model range

On sale are compact desktop and floor stands that fix the tablets at a certain distance from the floor or table surface (the height can be adjusted).

Most models provide 360-degree rotation of the tablet. Mounts securely fix the equipment thanks to special fasteners. Thanks to the brackets, you can fully work on this small technique, read from a tablet, while your hands will be free.

The back walls on many stands are perforated, which provides full ventilation and prevents overheating of the tablet. Many stands come with a special bag that is convenient to use as a mouse pad. Most mounts are suitable not only for tablets, but also for small laptops.

In our store you can order high-quality and inexpensive brackets with a guarantee from the manufacturer, which indicates their reliability and long service life. We provide delivery in Moscow and other cities of Russia, to order, just call or leave a request in the form on the website.

So, you want to attach your tablet to the wall. There are many ways to solve this design challenge, including using the Belkin Kitchen tablet holder to mount tablets on furniture and the FridgePad Magnetic Refrigerator Holder, but most of these solutions cost you a minimum of $20 to $50.

It's not obligatory.

Whether it's your kitchen companion or entertainment center, there's an inexpensive way to wall-mount your tablet so its display remains easily accessible.

Easy way: Dockem ($10)

Dockem is a versatile wall mount that fits almost any device (even smartphones). It's easy: clean the surface, place the device between the pads with the sticky side back and stick them to the wall. If you want to remove or relocate the mount, just carefully remove the brackets so no debris is left on the sticky side.

We approach the interior of the room: a shelf for pictures from Ikea (249 rubles)

You call it a picture shelf, we call it a tablet shelf. The solution from IKEA for 249 rubles makes it easy to blend the tablet with the rest of the interior of the room. After a quick install, you'll have a permanent place for your tablet (and a few family photos).

The IKEA shelf is longer than necessary from 55 to 115 cm, but if you have skilled enough hands, you can shorten it to the ideal size.

Unexpected hack: wire hanger for plates (100-150 rubles)

It's cheap, even a little ridiculous, but you know what? It works.

A blog post at Tumbleweedlabs.com found that if a cymbal mount can save an expensive piece of china, it will probably work for a tablet too.

If you're looking for the fastest and cheapest solution, go to a hardware store and buy one cymbal mount (like this one). Just try to choose one where the wire is hidden in a plastic tube so as not to scratch the tablet, or the tablet can be hidden in a transparent protective case. On the link to the blog, everything is clear from the photos.

Good day, in fact, we will talk about the controls of the "smart home".

Initially, when arranging the controls of a smart home, the control panel was not planned. The idea came much later, when video surveillance was implemented in the corridor. Namely, when implementing the video eye function. Demo video at the end of the review.

Ipad mini on 64 gb lay idle, a product of Apple presented in 2012, with a diagonal of 7.9 inches (IPS technology) Resolution of 1024 × 768 pixels. With iOS 9.3.5.
To date, a very weak tablet, ideal only for watching videos on the road or reading, because of the capacious battery. For other tasks, the processor is not enough, even surfing the Internet is a dubious pleasure. On free bulletin boards, you can buy this device for 6-8 thousand rubles for 16gb

I spotted the idea of implementing the panel at the hitechbiding 2016 exhibition held in Moscow. But there are expensive solutions that I cannot call justified. In general, I began to look, but I didn’t particularly like anything, either it’s expensive or the design doesn’t fit. In the end, FOUND and ordered.

Having received and unpacked the parcel, I was a little puzzled, since this purchase does not look like the money spent on it. Red price 500 rubles. For a piece of plastic. Because there is nothing more than instructions and a template!

Package

The frame itself

Reverse side (sorry for the quality of the photo)

Instruction

Trying on iPad mini

I would like to note that the ipad sits tightly in the frame, in other words, when the structure is assembled, it is problematic to pull it out, keep this in mind if this is your main tablet. In my case, this is not the case.

Actually, the installation process itself did not take me much time and labor, at the time of ordering I already knew where and how. He was engaged in repair and planning himself, so he picked up a place in a false wall. Actually photo below
Choice of location.

Markup, the template was included

Drywall drilling. (I used a magnet to search for profiles)

Ready!

A socket was provided nearby, from which it actually supplied power to the tablet.

Initially, I wanted to come up with some kind of tricky mount for this frame, so that in cases of which it could be removed, but I didn’t bother, since I didn’t have the necessary components at hand, but there were liquid nails!
Actually the frame itself is held on them.

Fits tight.

Actually the final result is:

The power cord is obtained under the frame itself, it was necessary to cut the wall so that it fits, not very convenient of course.

The panel is constantly on, does not irritate at night, pleases with convenience

Basically, that's all.
Of the pluses, I want to note a neat finished design that fits into the interior, even despite the black IPAD, and, accordingly, the IPAD as a control panel, with its display, AIRplay and other goodies (this is a separate issue).

Of the minuses is of course the price! 1650r. the frame itself and 700 shipping. but in fact, these are trifles compared to analogues. Well, the fact that the iPad, despite its age, is now fully powered with a good battery, there is a suspicion that the battery will die. (Correct me if I'm wrong, disperse melancholy)

Well, the finale.
Prepared a video to understand what I wanted in the end!

Everyone, all the best...

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Let's dream a little and draw in our imagination a portrait of a "smart switch". This is something flat, hanging on the wall, or even built into it. Instead of the usual push button switch. Something with a bright, responsive touch screen. Which is turned off in idle mode, but starts to glow at half power when a person approaches and lights up at full power when you bring your hand to the screen, displaying the local control of engineering systems in all its glory. Using the built-in wi-fi, the "switch" can communicate with both the Internet and other "switches" scattered around the walls of the smart home. The "switch" contains a microphone and a speaker, understands voice commands in different languages and can say something in response.

The "switch" has a typical wall mounting scheme, runs on a built-in battery and is charged by a wireless charger mounted inside the wall. Any “switch” can be removed from its “seat” and moved to another, for example, from a corridor to a large room. In this case, the function will automatically change - it will control the room chandelier, and not the corridor lamp. Being unhooked from the wall, the "switch" also automatically switches to the mode of a wireless control panel for all engineering systems at home.

"Utopia" - you will say and you will be wrong. Most of the Chinese low-cost tablets already have all the necessary hardware capabilities to implement such a scenario. All that remains is to learn how to properly fix them on the walls, charge them with wireless chargers (by the way, they are also already widely available and relatively inexpensive) and write the required software. The path is long, but you can start walking on it today.

Under the cut, a small experiment with attaching a 7 "tablet with magnets to a vertical surface.

Requisites

The first experiment will be placed on a wooden surface. To implement the plan, a specially prepared board was purchased in a hardware store, and the beloved, albeit very dangerous, toy "daddy's screwdriver" was temporarily taken away from a three-year-old offspring with a scandal:

We will mount the device at three points. For the experiment, six pairs of magnets of two sizes were purchased - 10 and 14 mm in diameter. In each pair, one of the magnets is a thin disk (for attaching with double-sided tape to the back of the tablet), the second is a thick disk with a central hole for a countersunk screw (the so-called magnetic ring, for attaching to a vertical surface, in our experiment it is a wooden board). This is what a 14mm magnetic ring looks like:

The necessary consumables for drilling and screwing were also purchased:

Two types of self-tapping screws were purchased, since it was not clear which would fit better into the magnets. It turned out that 12x3.0mm fit perfectly, smaller ones were not needed. Drills of two types for two sizes of magnets - 10mm and 14mm.

Tablet selection

We didn’t have an extra tablet, so for the purposes of the experiment, an inexpensive Chinese 7-inch Larude tablet was specially ordered. This is a 7" tablet with an ordinary TFT screen, a fairly fast processor, a large amount of internal memory (1GB of RAM + 8GB of flash), a fairly responsive touch, "rubber" plastic to the touch and a non-removable battery (and a non-opening back cover, respectively).

The ideal "wall tablet" should have the following characteristics:

Have an IPS screen so that the information is well read, regardless of the growth of the master of the smart home;
Have a flat back wall for secure mounting of flat magnets or metal plates;
Have an ordinary plastic or metal back surface, without "rubberization", for high-quality fastening of double-sided tape;
Support the wireless charging function, or have a removable back cover to install a separately sold wireless charging receiver;

Looking at the list of requirements, it's clear that we didn't think much when ordering our first tablet. It is small, fits comfortably in the hands, works out interface transitions very smoothly, but is poorly suited for wall placement. Well, we will use it in this experiment, and then we will give it to a three-year-old child to be torn to pieces. Fortunately, a bunch of children's programs are already installed on it from the factory.

Placement of magnets

We need to place the magnets as perfectly as possible on both the "wall" and the device. Without relying on our own eye, we used the full power of modern technology and printed several of the same templates. One of them was posted on the board:

Holes marked:

After drilling, it turned out that the thickness of the board was not enough. Fixing the magnets with self-tapping screws will not work:

Nevertheless, the magnets entered the drilled holes “with a creak”, the insufficient thickness of the board could not screw up our experiment:

We cut another copy of the template along the contour of the rectangle, attach it to the back wall with a magnet (it turned out that, although not much, the magnets “stick” to the tablet itself):

We put the magnets in their places, aligning them along the contours on a piece of paper, carefully circle them with a pencil. We get the following contours in the right places:

We prepare the mating parts of the magnets for gluing with the tablet:

It is important not to confuse the polarity, otherwise you will get the opposite effect - the tablet will bounce off the “wall”, and not be attracted. It is also important to choose the right tape. After gluing we get:

Experiment

The result of combining the board and the tablet is visible in the title photo. Our goal was to test the strength of such a connection. Agree, it would be a shame to find your even inexpensive "wall" tablet fallen off and broken due to weak magnets. In this video, you can see what "loads" such a mount can withstand:

Thus, the magnetic mount provides a more than stable attachment of the tablet to a vertical surface. Let's be honest, our mount later fell off when trying to disengage. But it fell apart at the point of attachment with adhesive tape, which was not at all optimal (on a soft substrate) and was glued to an inappropriate surface. Therefore, this post-peeling cannot be considered a failure of the experiment.

The next step (which will most likely not happen soon) will be an experiment with mounting on a real wall and wireless charging placed in a standard glass from a conventional switch.

For those who do not know why such a mount can come in handy, just a couple of ideas. It will suit an avid cook, the iPad can be attached to the wall in front of the work surface and enjoy slicing cucumbers according to Jamie Oliver's recipes. It is also suitable for lovers of fitness, yoga, and other home physical activities: we mount it on the wall at a convenient level, turn on the video lesson and do our recovery. Or you can just watch a movie. Even more ideas - in the video reviews below.

1. Koala iPad Wall Mount

Affordable and easy-to-use mount is compatible with iPad 1 and iPad 2. With this mount you won't damage the wall, it's a safe and secure place for your iPad at night, saving space on your desk. It is quite budgetary to allow yourself to watch the news or movies, taking a bath or for other undertakings.

2. Pad Tab

PadTab is compatible with the iPad, iPad 2, the new iPad, and many Android tablets. Also, as in the first case, it does not damage the wall, it is attached to many flat surfaces: walls, refrigerators, doors, cabinets.

3. iRoom Touchcode

A fancy option: the iRoom mount-docking station. In addition to home use, it can be used as a digital sign in public places such as salons or shops, conference rooms. Thanks to the built-in keyboard, the iPad can be locked in the dock and can only be retrieved from there by entering a 4-digit code. Safe storage, always fully charged, beautiful appearance and a locking system in case it is needed, make this option one of the best solutions.

4. iPad Slide Wall Mount

The good thing about this mount is that it can smoothly swivel and tilt for the perfect viewing angle, and even rotate 90 degrees to switch between portrait and landscape positions.