Charger Holder

Tired of messy wires on your table? Or a tangled mess on the floor? I’m sure you have some Legos lying around in your house, so why not follow this easy Instructable to make your own charger holder with Legos. If you have no childhood and don’t have Legos, you can use Fusion and 3D print it instead. 

LEGOS

PIECES FOR THE MAIN HOLDER

• Technic Brick 1x2 (main parts)
• Brick 1x2 with horizontal clip (main parts)
• 6x12 plate
• 2x4 plate
• 2x8 plate
• 1x4 bricks (any type of bricks to fill in)

SIDE PARTS

• Technic Pins (main parts)
• Technic Brick 1x2 (main parts)
• Brick 1x2 with horizontal clip (main parts)  
• A few bricks and a Lego plate

3D Printing

• 3D Printer
• 3D Printing Filament
• Tape (if needed)
• Super Glue

Legos: 

When my group was discussing the design for the charger holder, we knew we wanted something that could have extra add ons when you have multiple chargers. An easy object to utilize would be Legos so we tried using them. We started sketching out what we wanted the charger holder to look like and looked for Lego pieces to try and replicate it as close as we could. After experimenting with pieces that matched our sketch, we used random Lego pieces to fill in. 

After me and my group finished with the Lego design, we moved on to the 3D one. We used Fusion to create 2 prototypes. In the first prototype, the wires didn’t really wrap slits that we made. So, for the second prototype, we made slits for the wires bigger so it would fit. However, the slits were a tad too big, so the wires kept slipping out.

When making the the extra pieces, we knew it would be hard to print because there was no good way to print without it messing up. So instead of having the little cylinder pieces printing together with the extra piece that would connect to the main part, we decided to print the extra pieces without the cylinder and printed the cylinder piece separately.

For the final design, we made the slits a tad bit smaller and even added an extra, removable part that holds one extra wire if needed. We also added holes on the bottom and filled it with cabinet bumpers wrapped with balloons so it wouldn’t slip and slide on the table. The cable holder also doubles as an armrest when using your mouse! 

When 3D printing the final design, we used Makerbot and the 3D printer in our manufacturing class. We exported the file from Fusion as a stl. file and then uploaded the file into a 3D printer using an USB. The print took roughly 4 hours and thankfully it printed out correctly. **We didn’t use supports for the print** Assembling it was easy. We just used super glue to glue the cylinder and the add on together. (The cylinder should be placed in the main, without glue, and then the side where you add the super glue.)