Phone (nexus 5) stand with small passive amp and optional wireless charging by Supernova_6969

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is a stand I made for my nexus 5 (size for my phone with a thin bumper case). One version is just a hollow stand, the other prints with multiple parts and is meant to become a wireless charger.
Don't look at the finish on the photo, hopefully your printer prints better than mine.
The low-down:
-it's a stand that fits a Nexus 5 with a thin bumper case, or any other phone that size.
-it'll send/reflect the sound of the speaker towards the front of the phone (without much volume change, but with an actual significant quality improvement), as long as the speaker is bottom left of the phone.
-it'll wirelessly charge your phone if you stick a wireless charger's working bits inside of it.
-there is a "cover" for the front bottom to hide most of the notification light, but that cover has a super small hole so that you can see it blink if you look straight at It (great at night)
I printed it in PLA, it used about 1.1 meter of it altogether at 15% infill (the part is hollow, so that helps), with 2 bottom, 2 side and 4 top layers. The sides of the hollow core are .8mm thick, so that 0.4mm extruder tips get to do 2 clean layers without the slicer fooling around with tiny gaps.
The details:
One of the STL files is hollow, and the part on which you lean the back of the phone is a glue-able cover so that you can glue the innards of a cheap wireless charger to it (see link below for the one I cannibalized), and the stand becomes a wireless charger. The rectangular hole in the back is to slide in a usb cord that plugs in the charger, which fits in the inside of the stand. If you do this, you just glue the cover to the rest of the stand (I used super glue, worked fine once I put enough of it all around the bevel on the stand and glue the cover to that).
The little v-shaped thing is soemthing you clip on the USB wire on the inside of the stand to prevent you from yanking the plug out of the charger if you pull the cord; you have to put it on the cord (inside the charger) as close to the back wall of the stand once you've established how much of the cord you need in the stand.
I also included a passive amplifier in the bottom part in all versions. It's not much of an amplifier since it's not very big, but I was surprised that on top of sending the sound forward of the phone, it actually does improve sound quality a lot (the nexus 5 has poor sound and seems to benefit from this quite a lot). Volume is most likely not all that different, but it's hard to say.
*the type of charger I used for parts: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Qi-USB-Wireless-Charger-Charging-Pad-For-Galaxy-S6-Edge-Note-5-DP-/112257122127?var=&hash=item1a230bbf4f:m:mPyZtqPiE7ef-duRBue3wog