Tablet computers, or simply tablets, have long been made suitable for use in automobiles. Motorists adapted these thin and powerful devices as a replacement for the head unit, gps navigators, and some experts in electronics and programming even use them as an on-board computer. A tablet is convenient, practical and not so boring in traffic jams. And if there are children, then you can take them to your favorite games or watching cartoons on long and tiring trips. Some even adapted the tablets as DVRs, and they perfectly perform their functions.
How to fix a tablet computer in a car? Types of Holders
Multifunctionality, multimedia functions, as well as the minimum size and power - all this is very, very good. It remains only to make the mount for the tablet in the car.
Today, the market is literally crowded with various types of mounts. There are a lot of such holders.
So, among all devices, the following designs stand out:
- Universal frameworks. Most often installed on the center console.
- On suction cups (attached to the car windshield).
- Anti-slip mats.
Many do not want to bother with the choice and purchase a universal mount for the tablet in the car. These designs can be adjusted in height, width and other parameters. These holders are free to mobile devices of any diagonal. You can rotate the device both vertically and horizontally. There are models from well-known manufacturers, but they are few and they are expensive.
Where to mount the tablet?
For these purposes, there are only a few seats in the car. You can mount the holder on the dashboard, on the glass on the right, on the grille of the ventilation system. You can also install the computer on the back of the headrest. We will analyze the pros and cons for each of these places.
On the dashboard, the tablet will look perfect. Often they are attached as if he was always there. But such structures cannot be found on sale, so motorists and car owners prefer to make such devices on their own. It all depends on sleight of hand and imagination.
To the right of the driver, you can install the mount for the tablet in the car on the glass. Naturally, you can purchase a finished design, or you can make it completely independently. This is much more interesting, and also allows you to get an interesting experience.
Do-it-yourself mount for a tablet in a car
So, here we got to the most interesting part of the article. Previously, many, before becoming car owners, had bicycles and motorcycles and regularly “collective farms” for them because of the lack of necessary spare parts.
So here, because the search for easy ways is by no means our method. Let's try to make a mount for the tablet in the car with our own hands. It is very interesting and economical.
We attach the tablet to the ventilation grill
To make a mount for the tablet in the car on the air duct, you will need the device itself, a little stainless steel, a welding machine, as well as a bench tool.
This home-made design has a number of advantages over quite shaky holders from the Chinese brothers. The design is very convenient to operate, it is very simple to manufacture, it does not take up much unnecessary space in the interior of your car. For manufacturing, you only need skills in working with metal and a welding machine.
The design does not have minuses. If necessary, it can be easily removed, this is a universal mount for a tablet in a car on a dashboard. In general, there are many options for such designs. You can use various clamps, brackets.
Where to begin?
First you need to find a stainless steel. Next, you need to measure the strips for the manufacture of the stand. 2 vertical stripes recommended. The necessary stripes should be 1 cm wide and 17 in length. You also need to prepare one horizontal strip 25 cm long and 1 cm wide. Next, you need to cut the stripes and bend their edges. So it will be more convenient to use this thing.
The upper parts of the obtained strips need to be bent more than the lower ones. You should get a design similar to the integral. The curved upper part of our strips will cling to the air duct grille, and the lower curved one will hold the tablet. The horizontal strip must be fixed so that it keeps the high-tech device from lateral displacements. Then such a mount for the tablet in the car will be able to reliably hold the tablet, and it will not fall out when driving on our roads.
You can also make additional inserts in this design. They do not have any functional load, but slightly increase the angle of the tablet.
As a decorative treatment, you can glue the resulting holder with a cloth, leather or something else. As a result, the tablet mount in the machine engages in the air duct grille and is held securely there.
We fix the computer instead of air ducts
This is a way to insert a tablet into the car dashboard . The mobile computer will be mounted in the middle duct. This method is suitable for VAZ cars.
What to do?
First you need to remove and disassemble the duct housing. By the way, disassembling it is not so simple. There are a lot of small details. Gutted? Now you need to take the frame and try it on the tablet. The frame is suitable for small devices. If the mobile device is inexpensive, then perhaps the screen will fade. Therefore, it is advisable to drown it in a niche from ventilation.
Then, after all measurements, you need to cut off the partition between the two ventilation panels. Then, when we have a single niche, we need to once again try on a design from a tablet and a frame there. Depending on the measurement results, you may have to file a little more with the ventilation panel.
Next, you need to glue the frame on a double-sided tape to the tablet screen, to its non-working part. Then you should insert the structure into the cavity and put it on double-sided tape. When everything is done perfectly, you need to process those places where there was a partition before. It needs to be sanded, primed and painted, possibly decorated.
Also, as a fastener, you can ask your friends for a bracket from a broken holder and make yourself a frame or strip of metal to directly hold the mobile device and fix it anywhere, for example, you can make a tablet mount in the car on the headrest. At the same time, the bracket of the finished design will not bother to create it, and metal holders will become much more convenient than flimsy plastic parts. Children will thank you for the tablet in the rear passenger.