I read somewhere that "building community is inconvenient" and I think about that a lot these days. Doing the inconvenient thing (ie, asking your designer friend to design something) builds community, but it is arguably less convenient than having a bot do it for you. The benefit of the inconvenience, though, is the community
Looks like a small rolling table, desk, or nightstand would make a fine base. With a monitor stand like that you will probably want a flat horizontal surface to clamp onto. Perhaps there is another type of stand that would be more suited to pole mounting
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