Origami stand for smartphones http://mgcuadrado.com/stand.html

Miguel González Cuadrado This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

This stand can hold your mobile phone in portrait or landscape position, at two different angles. It can be folded in a few minutes from a din a4 sheet of regular 80 g/m2 paper1 . If you print motifs on the paper (only one side needs them), don’t worry about the printing margins: they won’t be visible. This design and its diagramming2 were heavily inspired by, but hopefully improve on, http://www.instructables.com/id/Iphone-Stand/.

Finished phone standa with the upper flaps inside the lower flaps (upright position; see step 16). a Motif

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1. Valley-fold an A4 sheet of paper vertically so that only the printed side (if any) remains visible; if you manage to do it without folding through the middle of the sheet, the result will be more robust (you can, for instance, mark creases only at the two ends of the paper, instead of all the way through).

step 6 if you would like to use letter-sized paper instead. with LATEX, with packages memoir (for the layout), and TikZ (for the figures). All source files should be attached to this pdf file, so that you can freely extract (for instance, with pdftosrc), modify, and recompile them. 1 See

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2. Turn over and valley-fold to form a triangle (once again, if necessary, mark only a little crease at the appropriate height to find the right spot to fold to).

3. Turn over and valley-fold the resulting triangle about its base.

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4. Valley-fold to form a new, thicker triangle; this will produce the “upper flaps”.

5. Valley-fold and unfold leaving a 3.5 cm-wide band below the triangle. 3.5 cm

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6. Valley-fold the base of the paper onto the crease. Note: if you are using letter-sized paper instead of din a4, skip this step; then, just after step 8, valley-fold the base of the paper unto the base of the resulting triangle, and proceed normally.

7. Bring the upper part down.

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8. Valley-fold the triangle about its base.

9. Valley-fold onto the base of the triangle, and unfold; this will produce the “lower flaps”.

10. Inside-fold; the amount of folded paper determines the stand angle when in the second position; around 0.5 cm seems to be appropriate.

11. Turn over and valley-fold onto the base of the triangle (on the opposite side).

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12. Turn over and bring the triangle down.

13. Inside-fold the three double layers (there are only two for letter-sized paper) on both sides.

14. Valley-fold while flipping the layers underneath without folding them, and maintaining the two beaks behind (see next step).

15. Rear view of the result of the previous step (the grey lines represent hidden edges).

16. Now, you have two sets of flaps: the upper flaps, behind the triangle, and the lower flaps, on the base; if you put the upper flaps inside the lower flaps, on the lower creases, the phone should stand at a fairly upright angle; if, on the contrary, you put the lower flaps inside the upper flaps, on the upper creases, the phone will stand at a more horizontal angle. Put the phone in portrait or landscape position in the crease you made in step 14, and the crease will pinch it and maintain it firmly. You can fold the stand for transportation by turning all the flaps in.

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