Girder Phone Stand (with MagSafe option!)

Howdy, wonderful people!

By popular request, I've finally integrated an Apple MagSafe charger into a phone stand design!  Of course, that was also a good excuse to design another phone stand, because those are just a lot of fun regardless :)  

You want hexagons?  You got hexagons!  So many hexagons.  I may not  have mentioned it before, but hexagons are great.  These industrially-inclined struts full of hexagons are bolted together with adjustable angles - you might want to refer to the photos to get the bits correctly oriented, though, because they're almost symmetrical, but not quite.

So, two versions!  One shelf version for regular phones, and one intended to hold an Apple MagSafe charger:

Integrating the charger was an interesting challenge.  I got my hands on one and quickly discovered that it was relatively flat and sharp-edged, giving no real opportunity to hold it in place from in front (since the phone needs to be up against it).  

The magnetic connection between phone and charger is strong, though, and quite easily pulled the charger out of the model when testing press-fit options, so where I've ended up instead is a bolt at the back that clamps the two sides of the mount around the charger.  Depending on how tight you're comfortable clamping the charger you might want to slide the phone off sideways, though, rather than pulling it straight out.  And, of course, there's always the option of just adding some tape or similar adhesive to hold the thing in place instead.

Printing Tips

This is an assembly rather than a print-in-place model, so there isn't the same necessity to ensure tolerances are exact.  There's fairly generous allowance for print variation factored into the parts, in fact.  

The shelf version and MagSafe version differ only in the mount piece (and the latter also needs the matching mount bolt).  The struts and main bolts are the same either way.

As usual there's no support required for anything - print orientation is like so:

Print Dimensions

There are a few parts to this one, so let's just mention the biggest part:

The Base Strut occupies 122mm x 128mm on the print bed, and is 60mm tall.

File Locations

You'll find this one on dropbox under 719 Girder Phone Stand

Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592

Further Thoughts

Now, most of the requests for a MagSafe model were of course related to the Planetary Phone Stand, so that's up next-ish :) 

You know, there's no reason you couldn't just add as many strut pieces as you felt like printing...

:P

xoxo

Sven.