• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    18 days ago

    Anywhere I keep my phone often enough to need a stand ought to be charging it too.

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          18 days ago

          Odds are your phone has a modern connector so this isn’t necessary. I replaced my pixel 3a, which I bought in September 2019, last December. Thanks to wired phone projection, I cycled its USB-C connector twice a day for 5 years and 3 months. That’s ~4,000 cycles. The connector specification calls for a 10,000 cycle lifetime.

          I did have to de-lint the connector from time to time, but other than that I had no issues.

          Not to say that you shouldn’t use inductive charging of course :)

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            18 days ago

            That lifetime assumes a clean testing setup.

            In the real world, grit and dust will work into the charging port and wear down the connectors much sooner.

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      18 days ago

      Mostly agree but sometimes power isn’t available where you want the stand. Also, this is a pretty keen design - might be worth modifying with a simple carve out on the back to pop in a Qi charger.

    • kek_w_lol@lemmy.oneOP
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      18 days ago

      Fair take. I usually don’t keep it in one place. I mostly watch long form content while I work and have never encountered the problem of my phone needing to be charged in the vertical orientation. I may implement your suggestion at a later date, but you are welcome to remix my design if you are unwilling to wait. Cheers, and thanks for the feedback!

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    11 days ago

    When did you design this? I remember printing a very similar phone stand years ago. I used it for a long time, it was great!

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    18 days ago

    If you posted this on Thingiverse, someone in the comments would complain about the supports being too hard to remove and the model being oriented the wrong way.

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    17 days ago

    Just by looking at it, this model should scale easily in the slicer. (Scale up by 21.5% if my math is correct.) It may look odd, but even scaling up one axis (Y) may work too.

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    18 days ago

    That looks really nice and elegantly simple. If I could make a suggestion though, you might want to raise the phone cradle up a bit and put a slot in the bottom so it can charge while on the stand.

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      18 days ago

      I honestly never thought of that, maybe in a future model at some point. I rarely ever charge my phone on the stand, and only when it’s horizontal. But I am glad for the feedback!

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        18 days ago

        I only thought of it because I bought a little stand for my phone a couple years ago and it has one, but fair enough!

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          18 days ago

          Any constructive criticism is welcome and all my models allow remixes, so feel free to modify if you are so inclined.

    • kek_w_lol@lemmy.oneOP
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      18 days ago

      Thank you very much! Spent a lot of time designing and testing until it printed and felt good, so I am glad to hear that it looks good as well.