Wall frame for a tablet for a smart home. Best Wall Mounts for iPad

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

Range of models

Compact desktop and floor stands are on sale that secure tablets at a certain distance from the floor or table (the height can be adjusted).

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

The back walls of many stands have perforations, which ensures full ventilation and prevents overheating of the tablet. Many stands come with a special bag that can be conveniently used 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.

Let's dream a little and draw a portrait of a “smart switch” in our imagination. 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 begins to glow at half power when a person approaches and lights up at full power when you bring your hand to the screen, displaying organs in all their glory local control engineering systems. Using the built-in wi-fi, the “switch” can communicate both with the Internet and with other “switches” scattered along the walls of the smart home. The “switch” contains a microphone and a speaker, understands voice commands on different languages and may say something in response.

The “switch” has a standard wall mounting scheme, runs on a built-in battery and is charged from 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. When unhooked from the wall, the “switch” also automatically switches to the wireless remote control mode for all engineering systems of the house.

“Utopia” - you will say and you will be wrong. Today, most Chinese inexpensive tablets already have all the necessary hardware capabilities to implement such a scenario. All that remains is to learn how to properly mount them on the walls, charge them with wireless chargers (by the way, also already widely available and relatively inexpensive) and write the required software. The road ahead is long, but you can start walking it today.

Below the cut is a small experiment with attaching a 7" tablet to a vertical surface with magnets.

Requisites

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

We also purchased the necessary consumables for drilling and screwing:

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

Selecting a tablet

The ideal “wall tablet” should have the following characteristics:

1. Have an IPS screen so that information can be easily read regardless of the height of the owner of the smart home;
2. Have a flat back wall to securely mount flat magnets or metal plates;
3. Have a regular plastic or metal back surface, without “rubberization”, for high-quality fastening of double-sided tape;
4. Support wireless charging function, or have a removable back cover for installing a separately sold wireless charging receiver;

Magnet placement

Marked holes:

After drilling, it turned out that the thickness of the board was not enough. It is not possible to secure magnets with self-tapping screws:

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

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

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

We prepare the reciprocal parts of the magnets for gluing to the tablet:

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

Experiment

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

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

So you want to mount your tablet to the wall. There are many ways to solve this design challenge, including using the Belkin Kitchen Tablet Mount Holder for Mounting Tablets to Furniture and the FridgePad Magnetic Refrigerator Holder, but most of these solutions force you to spend 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.

The easy way: Dockem ($10)

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

Let's match the interior of the room: a shelf for pictures from Ikea (249 rubles)

You call it a picture shelf, but 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 room’s interior. After quick installation, you'll have a permanent place for your tablet (and a few family photos).

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

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

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

One blog post at Tumbleweedlabs.com found that if a plate holder can protect an expensive piece of porcelain, it can probably handle a tablet too.

If you're looking for the fastest and cheapest solution, go to a hardware store and buy one plate 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. From the link to the blog, everything is clear from the photographs.