DIY wooden iPhone Dock
I finally made the leap from a desktop as my main computer to a laptop.
I’ve been waiting ever since the 11″ MacBook Air was introduced, for Apple to put a decent processer in it. Finally that time as come and I jumped in and grabbed an i7 11″ Air.
Unfortunately my desk needs some rearranging to work with my new mobile lifestyle. I had to dump one of my monitors, and I need to make a stand to raise and angle my Air a bit, and maybe mount a few USB peripherals, we’ll see…
I haven’t had much time in the shop this summer as I’ve been building a coop for our ducks, managing a large garden and doing numerous outdoor things; but I had an itch to work with some hardwood so I decided to throw together a quick iPhone dock. I had some scrap Wenge and Cherry laying around so here is a quick gallery of the process.
Ok back to canning a huge amount of tomato sauce…
Nice!
Nice! I catually like the holes left by the lead of the forstner bit. Kinda reminds me of an old school serial cable, which fits incely in this application.
Yea I like the design as well… I just wish I had thought of it before I started and I would have made the pattern a bit more even.
Very cool, Nik! I’ve been seeing some of the pics at the top of the WTO forum, nice to know who is responsible. Love the Altoids tin form factor.
@Aaron
Thanks man! 🙂 Hope to see you in a couple weeks at WIA 😀
Nice! Do you think it will be ‘forward compatible’, i.e. iPhone 5?
I can only hope… it’s a simple design and there is a bit of play in there so I bet it will work. no different than all the commercially available docks out there in radio’s etc… I cant imagine the next phone being bigger… so If anything it will be looser in the slot.
How thick is each layer? Cherry then Wenge?
Cherry is ~1/2″ Wenge is ~3/8″