This is one started with an idea I had when I went back into my original box and saw the screen protector we all ripped off when we first greedily tore into our GNex's. I hadn't seen it since I was overcome by gadget fever and bought it at the Amsterdam airport and clumsily unwrapped and swapped sims in the passport line. But this little screen cover has the nexus logo and was just begging to be backlit! A glowing galaxy nexus sign, and what's best, most of you probably still have yours (hopefully!)
The backlight is from a flatbed scanner, the charger is a 12V car adapter, and the stand is a TV wall mount. Pogo contacts are a dissected female end of a USB extension cord. A few other little piece parts from the junk drawer, some solder, e-tape and hot glue, and we have a truly unique pogo charging dock. That doesn't mean don't copy...I want to see more homemade monstrosities. I hope this inspires more awesomeness!
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Notes:
This was was a bit of work, some soldering skills req'd.
No, I don't know the brand of the TV stand, I re-appropriated it from a work building being torn down.
The pictures don't do justice to the glow, it's cool. Hard to shoot something so bright.
Thanks to zuberio for the adjustibility concept inspiration.
I'm test driving Jelly Bean right now, so haven't tested Force AC charge, but it should work had used it before with the charger in this project.
Looks nice, but I would put some diodes on the charger so in case you get a short you don't kill your phone lol.
You are so cool! I wish you lived in chicago!!!
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jfriend33 said:
You are so cool! I wish you lived in chicago!!!
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Thanks. I went to boot camp in Great Lakes, does that count?
Im actually leaving for a worktrip to Louisiana right now.
Related
http://placewiz.com/Stand.php
Just got it set up with my GT 10.1. The beauty of the stand is the fact that I can have my Samsung Book Cover Case installed on the tab, have the charging cable plugged into the bottom of the tab, and have the tablet on the stand with the volume controls and 3.5 jack on the top. Almost every stand I have found did not have enough room for the connector to be installed while placed on the stand, but this one fixed that for me, at a grand total of $10 on ebay!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220772954466&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Mike
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Galaxy Tab with stand, charging.
wow that is so awesome!
seems nice... how sturdy is it? did you try any other stands or was this the first one you got?
personally I dont need the ability to charge it while on the stand, so sturdiness is the name of the game for me, so i've been thinking about the Arkon but maybe this is even better... just curious if you tried the Arkon out also?
Regarding how sturdy it is... for me, it's perfectly fine. The problem I found is I keep my desk clean with pledge, which makes the surface too slippery and the stand itself doesn't have any way to grip. I think I will just stop down at the local hobby store and find some sort of rubber strip I can put on the feet of the stand to have it stop sliding. Besides that, I only get a minor wobble when tapping the screen, but only at the top, and only if I press abnormally hard. For $10 you can't beat it.
nice 10char
Just bought one.
That looks really nice.
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personally I dont need the ability to charge it while on the stand, so sturdiness is the name of the game for me, so i've been thinking about the Arkon but maybe this is even better... just curious if you tried the Arkon out also?
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I have the Arkon, it's very sturdy, very adjustable. It's made of some sort of hard plastic/polymer, with foam cushion layer on the bottom so it doesn't slide and where it touches the tablet. The only issue is the tablet sits too low for the charge connector in landscape mode.
lol, it is a rabbit
Have been using this mount for a little over a week and can say that it is awesome. The thing I like the most is the mount. It is sticky and mounts to almost any surface, even the rounded portion of my dash. It does get dirty and needs to have some water run over it every once in a while to clean it off. The part that holds the phone is hard to use one handed, but holds the phone really well. It opens up to hold any phone and mostgps units. I picked this up on amazon for just under 20 bucks.
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Looks good, but larger pics would help!
I guess this is the mount?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Z8ZLOS/ref=ox_ya_os_product
For the price it wouldn't hurt to try it out. I should be getting it tomorrow.
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I guess this is the mount?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Z8ZLOS/ref=ox_ya_os_product
For the price it wouldn't hurt to try it out. I should be getting it tomorrow.
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That's the mount.
Sorry about the small pictures, I haven't quite mastered posting pics from my tab.
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Does the mount show in any part of the camera\video view?
Just tried it. The mount does not show up on the screen when taking video or pics.
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I got the mount on Saturday. I think it works pretty well for what it was worth. It definitely requires two hands to take in and out. It seems to hold pretty solid on the dash.
Sorry the pictures aren't that great. They were taken with my Thunderbolt.
just wanted to add I have this mount and have been using it with no problems. I also have a nook tablet that I put the suction cup on the back of and clip to the headrest to let my daughter watch movies for long trips. Its very versitile.
Just tossed one of these in favor of the Samsung mount. Much easier to work with.
Bad experience!
Bad experience!
I bought this car mount 32 days ago & It's already broken!!
I used it in my car for a Galaxy S2 device with a sunlight protector (as was recommended on exogear's site).
For the record, I'v been known for my gentle treatment for all of my things, in particular, the technological one's.
The damage was a broken grip (the one that holds the cell-phone), just near the red rubber.
Be careful guys\ladies - waste of 30$.
So now that we've got built-in wireless charging, I think it's time for some cool official wireless chargers. This is the idea I had:
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(side view and front view)
This charger would allow you to use your new Nexus 7 as a clock while it's charging. Drop it onto the dock, and it stands up and makes it easy to read from across the room and easy to quickly grab when it's done charging. Matte black would look nice, with a basic white indicator light that turns on when the device is charging and turns off when it's done.
That's pretty neat, but I have a nice addition to that: the tablet slides in and down into the cradle, and there's a hole where the Pulse LED is so you can see if you have notifications; that would be instead of a light to indicate charging.
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That's pretty neat, but I have a nice addition to that: the tablet slides in and down into the cradle, and there's a hole where the Pulse LED is so you can see if you have notifications; that would be instead of a light to indicate charging.
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I like that Now I just need to be better at drawing
Rather have a landscape dock.
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Nice idea. The only downside of the new N7 is I was used to keeping the old one docked neatly at my bedside. Probably have to wait 6 months for a dock to come out.
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Rather have a landscape dock.
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Agreed.
Or one that can be used either portrait or landscape ( I can see a use for either).
this would actually be really nice, charge my tablet while browsing the internet or playing games, like the concept
This idea is neat. I would like to see it for both vertical and horizontal viewing. In another thread I said a stand should have some weight so it does not move easy. Or it could have no slip on the bottom.
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So I recently got myself a 2004 Nissan Maxima.
This is what the centre console looks like stock
Anyways, when I bought the Nexus 7 I placed in front of the screen and it was a perfect fit. I decided to open it all up and move the screen to a lower position. (I lost one of those map pockets but whatever). Sidenote: on the left side of the picture under the steering column I tucked away an Avantree bluetooth module. Helped me retrofit the car with bluetooth audio so no wires
After all that I was left with this:
So i decided to install my N4 qi wireless charger in there. It's pretty ghetto really, I bought some cardboard, some felt and a pvc pipe for support taped it all together and:
Gave it power by soldering a micro usb cable down the back. Placed it in the huge space while resting the end of the pvc pipe onto an inner lip:
Best part is, my N4 fits nicely as well and because of the rubber lip I created to help the N7 slide in, it isn't free to move around.
When I took these pictures the soldering wasn't done which is why they aren't charging in the photos.
Anyways, thought I'd share, hope you guys liked it! Also sorry if this was more of a mod than an accessory but still
Let me know what you guys think!
I think its awesome!
Question though, how are you running Navigation with the Nexus 7? Are you tethering your phone to it? Or is it LTE?
There are lots of offline gps apps (navigon, sygic,...). And you can update the maps over wifi since the n7 is removable from his build carboard. No traffic informations I guess, but that's fine with me.
Very nice though. I wanted to do a thing like that but there are too many modifications to do on my '96 Peugeot 106^^
Maybe with a new car in a few years.
On my 2.3 device I had a "car interface", it's helpful for quick interactions. You might wanna look it up
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Hello there fellers...
Is there any difference between last gen. wireless charging stand and the new one released together for S8?
Does the new one have faster charging speed?
If you mean this one,
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I got one and did not like it. Unlike the Samsung Qi charger I had purchased for my car, this one seems to cycle constantly. So it goes on battery, and the phone discharges for a while, then it starts charging, then you get a full charge and it turns off and the cycle starts over. I found it too annoying to use.
Thanks. The new convertible stand looks great but is a bit expensive for now.
Edit: I read on a review for this model that "the correct power supply must be used for it to function properly."
Sindroid said:
Thanks. The new convertible stand looks great but is a bit expensive for now.
Edit: I read on a review for this model that "the correct power supply must be used for it to function properly."
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If you mean that it should use the cables/wall plug that it came with, yes, that's true. I have two of them and without a quickcharging cable/cable, it doesn't charge/work as a quick charger.
Sindroid,
Here is the one I have been using
https://www.amazon.ca/Wireless-Char...24826&sr=8-1&keywords=spigen+wireless+charger
Works very well, not high speed but 3.5 hours for full charge and very sturdy. Also has the rubberized grip so very sturdy for the phone to sit on as well. Highly recommend it.
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Sindroid,
Here is the one I have been using
https://www.amazon.ca/Wireless-Char...24826&sr=8-1&keywords=spigen+wireless+charger
Works very well, not high speed but 3.5 hours for full charge and very sturdy. Also has the rubberized grip so very sturdy for the phone to sit on as well. Highly recommend it.
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This looks very cool. Does it come with cables and a wall plug? I see "a" cable, but not sure if comes with all the necessary cables. I found it on the US site for $25 (guessing that's what it is at the exchange for CAD).
I'm using the new convertible charger. So far so good.