Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Jake von Slatt posted this brief item:
Here’s a dead simple cell phone charging station I installed next to our main entrance. It’s just a pair of hangers of the sort you’d use in the garage to store a shovel or a rake. If your wall isn’t made of barn-board like ours, you can screw the hangers into a block of wood and use regular drywall anchors to attach it.
Note: if you have an older phone with a transformer type wall wart you’ll want to add a power strip with a switch since those older supplies drew nearly the same amount of power when disconnected from the phone as they did when charging it.
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seems a bit on the precarious side
I use a similar system that costs less, looks better, and doesn’t leave a hole in the wall…. I plug in the phone and leave it on the TV stand.
yeah that’s going to fall as soon as someone’s coat brushes it.
points for organization, but it’s gonna fall.
At my very first glace of the title and the picture before I scrolled down made me think that the pencil sharpener was going to be part of the charging system. I have to admit the post was a little anti-climatic for me.
A wire basket, with a slot cut out just wide enough for the plug, would work much better.
OH LOOK, ANOTHER POINTLESS ENTRY ABOUT JAKE VON SLATT!
He screwed two wall hangers into a wall and called it a charging station? You thought that was cool enough to post?!
Yes. And yes.
And the post has absolutely nothing to do with Jake von Slatt. It’s a very simple solution I happen to like. You either do or you don’t. If you don’t, move along.
And the phones won’t fall. As you can see from the black cord, there’s a knot, so if a phone “falls,” it won’t go very far.
LOL! 6 comments so far, wow!
Truth is I didn’t think that this was worth a post when I installed the hooks, it was just a quick fix because I got tired of bending over to retrieve the charger cord when I plugged in the phone.
Now it’s three years later they just work so freaking well I’d thought I’d share.
It makes sense to post it on your blog, Jake, afterall, it’s something you did and wanted to share. My point was it has to be a very slow news day (or something over at the Steampunk Workshop) to have a Make post about two wall hangers with cords knotted around them called “charging stations”.
That was my first thought when I saw this. The phone is not repackaged into an elaborately etched and over-engineered brass case, the hooks are regular plastic coated store-bought offerings rather than hand forged and electroplated with copper and bearing all manner of flourishes – and is that a mundane ’70s era wall-mounted rotary pencil sharpener I see?
Nay, this be not the work of Jake von Slatt!