K'nex Charging Hub

This is my K'nex Charging Hub. My version of it can hold 16 phones, 2 tablets, and whatever other small things you need to be charged. It also has a table on top to hold any excess electronics. This design is very flexible and you can put a multitude of variations into it to make it fit your expectations. You can make it as tall as you want. There are three different types of "shelves" for the electronics plus there is an option to change the legs on the bottom of it to wheels so that it can roll around. Sorry that I haven't posted for another long while. Between moving into my new house and school, I've been busy. Enjoy building the instructable! Also, let me know if you like the format of my Instructables. Do they need to be simpler? Or are they too simple? Let me know, please! Thanks

You will need:

For the table on top:

8 Green Rods

84 White Rods

36 Blue Rods

4 Orange Connectors

32 Gray/Purple Connectors

12 Yellow Connectors

8 Blue Connectors

17 White Connectors

For each Level of the Hub:

16 White Rods

10 Blue Rods

21 Red Rods

1 Orange Connector

16 Gray/Purple Connectors

4 Yellow (Bottom) or White Connectors (Middle)

16 Blue Connectors

For the Legs:

16 Green Rods

16 White Rods

16 Blue Rods

32 Gray/Purple Connectors

4 White Connectors

Or

For the Wheels:

28 Green Rods

4 White Rods

-4 Blue Rods

8 Yellow Rods

4 Gray/Purple Connectors (1 peg)

4 Orange Connectors

16 Red Connectors

32 Blue Spacers

36 Gray Spacers

4 Blue Clips

8 Medium-Sized Wheels

Phone Holding Shelf:

5 White Rods

4 Yellow Rods

4 Light Gray Connectors

4 Orange Connectors

2 Yellow Connectors

4 Black Y-Clips

Tablet Holding Shelf:

2 White Rods

4 Gray Rods

2 Orange Connectors

2 Light Gray Connectors

2 Black Y-Clips

4 Gray Spacers

Miscellaneous Shelf:

8 White Rods

2 Gray Rods

8 Light Gray Connectors

8 Orange Connectors

8 Black Y-Clips

Combined Phone/Miscellaneous Shelf:

7 White Rods

4 Yellow Rods

6 Light Gray Connectors

6 Orange Connectors

2 Yellow Connectors

6 Black Y-Clips

That should be everything.

This will be the same in every charging hub.

In pictures 14 through 15, I show you how to make a layer if it's the bottom layer and if you use the wheels instead of the legs.

Here's how you attach the tabletop to the base.

This is how to make the legs. You can do the legs and wheels together but I would not recommend it because it will be very wobbly.

This is how to make the wheel. Like I said before, you can do the legs and wheels together but I would not recommend it because it will be very wobbly.

Each of the coming-up shelves can be placed anywhere in the base. (Except for the tablet holder which we'll get to later). This is how to make the shelf for charging two phones.

The tablet-holding shelf covers two layers. Therefore you cannot fit the tablet holder in one layer. This is what I mentioned earlier. This shelf holds one tablet.

This shelf fits in one layer and holds any extra stuff that isn't a phone or tablet.

This shelf fits on one layer. It can hold one phone and some miscellaneous stuff.

The Phone Holder, Miscellaneous holder, and the Phone/Miscellaneous holder (Not shown) are all put on the same way. The tablet holder is different.

Here are some pictures of devices on their shelves.

Hope all the variance wasn't too complicated. Good luck making it to your personal preference! Hope you like it!