Homemade Computer Desk

As a sales rep my truck IS my office. I put 1000 miles per week calling on engine rebuilders, machine shops and the like. Hence my familiarity with engines, ones to stay away from and ones to endear (this is the primary reason I chose the 2.7L as my "work" engine, it's reputation for long life and reliability).
Anyway, because of my job I'm "married" to a laptop computer. I have a really nifty homemade computer desk that serves the same purpose as the high dollar ones you see in cop cars, etc. Mine will cost under $25 total. Everything you need is at Home Depot/Lowe's, Target.

Here's the finished product:


Here is where it's attached. Remove the passenger seat rail bolt next to the console, get a 3/4" pipe flange from one the a fore mentioned stores. It will be necessary to drill one of the holes out to accept the bolt. I started with a short nipple then a 45 degree, then a quick coupling, then it's just a matter of screwing together a series of nipples. The "desk" is actually a cutting board I bought from Target over 6 years ago (I had this setup in my F150).
If you have a passenger, (I rarely do), then you can just unscrew the quick coupler and remove it.



The angle is tilted just a few degrees to the rear, just the right angle for me. BTW, the power converter and the heavy duty rubber band (used for securing my laptop) came from Love's Truck Stop and is plugged into the power outlet in the center console. It has some velcro tape on the back and it holds it into the carpet pretty well.

 

thats a cool idea
I have one that I always use for my car when I used to track it. Instead of having multiple gauges all over the dash I just had a laptop hooked up running VCDS and had it give me all the info I needed on screen.

Mine was just a table thing like yours with an arm similar to that of a desk clamp on light. Just had it from a much stronger arm and added a much stronger clamp. It was actually some sort of arm type thing for some kitchen tool I got from work from a restaurant we were redoing.

Anyways it clamps right onto a bar thats behiind the shifter.
Basically like where that little cubby is where the phone charger comes if you have the option.
It works great. Considering it held an acer netbook in place at high speeds under heavy breaking and cornering. Or just heavy acceleration when I did drag run. I had to add an extra strap to it that went over the base of the laptop to hold it during corning but otherwise worked great

 

for like $80 dollars you could get one that is adjustable, and swivels. If you use it so much, this would pay for itself in a week.

 

Nice Thinkpad.