Turns your Surface Pro 3 in to a Desktop Computer by just sliding it in sideways.

For this thing I disassembled the original SP3 Doking Station (which was kinda hard and probably voided the warranty, but pfff... who cares? its a dock...) and only kept the lower case, PCB and connectors. I hotglued a USB extention cable and a mini DP to HDMI adapter in the upper slots.

I haven't been using the Docking Station for a while, so i decided to make an expermient. Microsoft claims "the Surface Pro 3, the tablet that can replace a laptop." It did! I don't have a Desktop anymore and use the SP3 as my main machine now. Then the question came up: "Can it replace a Desktop as well?"

I didn't use the Docking Station because:

• it uses lots of desk-space (when a monitor is added)
• still creates a cable-salad ontop of you desk
• I had problems with scaling between the SP3's own Display and the 27" 1080p Display
• the Typecover sometimes gets caught in the mechanism

I use this Docking Station for about a month now and I need to say: It makes my Desk nice and tidy, is even easier do slide in than the original and works a treat with multiple monitors. It's probably the smallest and most portable desktop computer I ever had.
The only problems i had so far were it's power limitations of a mobile CPU and GPU.

I'm still working on a release button, an option to mount it horizontally (unterside of Desk) or vertically (side of drawers like in pic) and support for a regular charger, so you don't need to disassemble a dockingstation.