Smart Phone holder idea

[CivicFerio]

Hello Everyone!

My Nokia finally crapped out so I upgraded to my wife's old iphone 3GS. With its build in GPS I can finally ditch my TomTom which kept falling off its suction every time I hit a bump.

I wanted something sleek, tidy and mounted high up on the dash for easy visibility. So I decided to use the cup holder 55620-60010 and made an adapter for it.

First I drew it out in Solidworks



Then I export it to the Makerbot 3D printer I got for christmas



Printed and it looks good!!





Cup holder



Adaptor installed



Phone installed



Next, I'm planning to make a slot on the bottom so I can plug the charger on it.

 

[murf]

3D printer for Xmas?! Someone been really good!

nice toy to play with I am sure

 

[86tuning]

I like that. It's slick. I don't have the cup holder tho, may have to make something for the empty slot to make it work.

 

[Dazrin]

Very nice! I bet you could find a market for those.

 

[98 SNAKE EATER]

very cool


What model printer do you have?

 

[92LXAZ]

Whatever...

Yep jealous much.

 

[CivicFerio]

very cool


What model printer do you have?

I have the Makerbot Replicator 2

 

[Wiscolandcruiser]

That's awsome! Very clean look to it.

 

[techsis]

That is too cool! Are you taking orders? If so, let me know the price.

 

[george_tlc]

Needs a slot below for the charging cable

We have a makerbot 3d here at work - need to find something useful to use it for - this might be my first 'project' for my galaxy s4, and yes, I have the cup holder in our 80. Thanks for the idea.

cheers,
george.

 

[harrydunn]

Impressive!

 

[CivicFerio]

Needs a slot below for the charging cable

We have a makerbot 3d here at work - need to find something useful to use it for - this might be my first 'project' for my galaxy s4, and yes, I have the cup holder in our 80. Thanks for the idea.

cheers,
george.

George,

Yes the slot for the cable will be made on the next version. I will also try to make it thinner if possible so you don't have to remove the dock when closing the cup holder.

 

[CivicFerio]

That is too cool! Are you taking orders? If so, let me know the price.

Thank you for the interest, however I'm not really satisfied with the design yet. Please give me another week or so to finalize the design.

 

[4G63 POWER]

What about iphone 5?

 

[NLXTACY]

It's been a reeeaaallly long week

 

[musthave]

iPhone 6plus?

It's been a reeeeeally long time.

 

[BILT4ME]

Here's what I did with my droid maxx. It's a go xt from O'Reilly. Then I bought an extra horizontal sticky mount from ultra gauge and mounted them side by side. Sure is nice not flopping around on the console.

 

[JCruse]

That's a great idea.

Unfortunately I'd have to buy that overpriced cup holder first.





I'm using this long extending Ottie One Touch 2 rising up off the console in front of the ashtray and angled toward the drivers seat.

$24 on Amazon
















It extends further than they show it here.

 

[bhicks]

I was actually in the process of making a dash phone mount but sold the 80 before I got the project done. I'm now doing the same project to the new 100. The factory GPS is terrible so I would prefer to just use my phone as my GPS instead of spending $150 on an updated CD to run on an already crappy system.

 

[4G63 POWER]

The suction kind suck, as soon as the temp changes they lose suction. Vent mounted is the way to go.