Tablet case for Fire HD 8th gen.

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Hi! I am 16 years old and I made this thing for all FIRST Global robotics teams. For the 2018 event in Mexico City, we all have to use this tablet. I am part of Team Slovenia and during our preparations for the event my crazy mentor had me design and fabricate a simple thing to help keep our robot control unit nice and safe.It is a super cool tablet case, held together tightly by 4 M4x45 screws (no nuts, only threading in plastic). The two supporting legs also feature 8 indents for small permanent magnets (I used 7mm wide and 3mm thick magnets and some hot glue). The case has to have about 5 mm thick insulation placed inside to keep the tablet stable. I used some soft packing foam but other options include basically any thin packing material.The insulation acts as a bumper if the device is dropped; it should cover every side except where there are holes for power and volume buttons. Special attention was devoted to the micro usb port: I wanted to make sure the port wouldn't get damaged during transport, so the socket is actually meant to house an entire connector that is then hot glued in place. This ensures the tablet is always moving with the connector and not separately. I glued in our usb hub that has an additional charge or otg latch. The supporting legs are really practical as you can have the tablet standing vertically, on its side at a sharp or shallow angle or even mounted to any medium sized metal (but not Al) beam! A tiny bit of plastic also keeps the screen clean of scratchy things if it falls over - which it won't, because I made it so good.It took me a few tries and quite some effort before I was ready to share this thing. I designed it entirely in Tinkercad and would appreciate your feedback and support to continue sharing such cool projects in the future! If you like this thing and what I did you may also send me a tip! :)