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I’ve read it somewhere that necessity is the father of invention.  My wife and I own iPads.  We own a car.  We also have a child.  We decided to take that child’s face to Sesame Place (see Sesame Place Review). We are about 2 or so hours away from the child friendly theme park.  A fairly unfriendly duration for a 15 month old to sit in the car.  It didn’t occur to me until about 2-3 days before the trip that something like an iPad car mount would be beneficial.  Too late to get something reasonably priced online (about $25 on Amazon.com for a rinky-dink mount).  Getting something in a brick and mortar store was absolutely out of the question because of cost absurdity (about $65 at Best Buy for that same rinky-dink mount).

Enter, the future of travel gadgetry…I like to call it the GeekDadLife iPad EXTREME Car Mount (extreme sounds pretty bad a$$ right?).  Others, might call it a “belt”.

There is more to it than just a belt, but the only additional out of pocket cost for this project was a Dynex stand-alone speaker with a 3.5mm connection.

Components:
iPad

iPad Folio case – you may or may not have an iPad folio type case. If you don’t, I highly recommend one outside of this DIY (any type – we have HardCandy convertible cases –

Belt – (If you don’t have a belt, you probably don’t have an iPad). We used a belt that came with a pair of shorts from Old Navy, the double ring clasp kind.
External speaker – 7.99+Tax with the way the iPad would sit, the internal speaker would be covered so I thought it’d be a good idea to get something external – Dynex Green speaker – http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Dynex%26%23153%3B+-+Portable+Speaker+-+Green/2256504.p?id=1218316935564&skuId=2256504&st=dynex%20speaker&cp=1&lp=4 (we got green because the only other color they had was pink).

Instructions:

Flip the iPad in the folio case open.
Strap the iPad in the folio case to your cars backseat or frontseat headrest.
Plugin the speaker.
2 hours of Yo Gabba Gabba powered joy!

Check the Gallery for additional images of this highly complex DIY.