I love my little transparent CP1 player from KM5. It's simple, portable and quite versatile. The other day, when trying to reach escape velocity from planet laziness, I decided to make a little stand for it. KM5 already sells a nice aluminium stand but, not only I wanted to make my own, I also wanted something that looked a little different.

A few days before this quick project, I was walking by some store in the city center while coming back home from work. I wasn't paying attention to the stores, my mind was drifting away to the music I was listening to, but one image stuck to my mind: a little lamp that looked like it was made to be in a construction site being used to light the store display.

I'm obsessed with how urban infrastructure looks and I love when things that look like they should be in a factory or construction site mix with the day-to-day environment. It is like making extra clear the ways in which we actively build our day-to-day reality. A construction equipment in the middle of the city is, to me, the equivalent of a transparent device revealing its inner workings.

I had to come back to that store the next day to take a picture. I was in love with that lamp (still am).

I decided then to make this stand for the CP1 inspired by it. I think it would fit nicely with the device's design. I went for some very simple forms, very geometrical, to fit the boxy and minimalistic look of the CP1 and match the direction of the factory-looking thing.

To minimize support material in the print, I split the stand into 2 parts, each one being the mirrored version of the other (the mirroring was done in the slicer software, so there is just one 3D model for both parts). An extra part was made to fit the two sides together without having to use glue: a hexagonal looking dowel. Finally, two M4 countersunk screws of 18 mm attach the stand to the CP1 device.

You can access the 3D models and download the files below.