Holder for a RuuviTag controller

[Bizman62]

During the spring a friend talked about needing stands for some RuuviTags. Another friend 3D printed them although I thought to myself that they'd look classier made out of wood. Anyhow, he was happy with them.

But then another issue arose. He also needed a controller for them. A tablet was what he first thought of but after some pondering he figured that an abandoned smart phone has a large enough screen to show the temperatures etc. His wife had a suitable one so the next step was to find a way to hang it on the wall. As we're going to have a meeting in a couple of weeks I thought I might be able to build something now that the Autumn semester had started.

Plan A was to build a frame but a) making the power button and charging port accessible without large gaps seemed a bit tricky and b) my scrap pieces were too narrow. So onwards to plan B which involved just a skeleton with a rest for the phone. Today to my pleasant surprise there was a piece of gluelam birch board in the scrap bin, long enough to allow cutting the longitudinal joints away. So I just took a piece of my offcuts from a previous build and did some routing and gluing. As the friend in question is a guitarist I also added a detail I think he'll like. The piece of plywood is about the same size as the Samsung phone, very handy to have a dummy for testing. It's sanded to 32o, waiting for some finish and a mounting hole.

 

 

[Bizman62]

After a few layers of my TruOil-ish mix and a wall mounting hole it was now time to deliver it.

It fit the actual phone like a glove! Even more so after applying a felt pad on the opposide side of the camera hump. The best praise was that the end location may well be his office instead of the corridor!