welcome to "diy tryin." build something new. i'm patrick norton. i'm michael hand. michael has what wewould call an addiction, were it, well heroin, oralcohol, or methamphetamine. but since it's unusualelectronic components from places you've never heardof on ebay or alibaba express, it's a hobby.
actually it's a career. yeah i don't know whatyou would expect me to do. we would do a diy show. well it's cool. this is actually somethingyou found recently. what is it? this is a qicharger, q-i charger. it's kind of likea standard, or it's closest to astandard of wireless
charging as youget at this point. it's the wirelesscharging system. it works with the nexus phonesand most of the androids. yes. so instead of havingthe whole covered in plastic in the littlespot that you put it. this is just thebase components. our plan is to putthis inside of this. yes, we are going tohave a charging stick.
well, actually you wereinspired by a website you saw. yes, so i saw on thexda forums, someone built a really nice chargerwhere they took one of these and put it and made areally nice looking stand. there's a little halfmock-up that we made. yeah, we spent a bunchof time mocking this us. essentially, we'regoing to drill down as thin as we canwith a forstner bit. we're going to meltthe wireless coil.
in theory, we're going toput some magnets in that'll help hold the phoneto the charger, keep it from falling over. but mostly, it's kindof funny, charging, not charging, charging,not charging. yeah, the target zone iskind of small, at least with this thing. so we have to have thingsplaced just in the right way. and hopefully wefigured all that out.
or else we will weep. we won't die. we'll just weep trying. or we'll just fake it and then-- we don't fake it on the show. so after workingour mock up, michael went out and selected thefinest piece of red oak he could find at thelocal lowe's lumber. this was the best one.
and you looked at all of them. i know because we gotthat look that i often get from the lumberstore people when i go through every singlepiece of wood in the stack. so should see if wecan make this pretty? oh let's try it. drill holes in it? yeah, i guess. well, we don't have todrill the holes in it.
but it's not going to bemuch of a-- have your moment. we can go get another stick. so first we need to makean angle cut in the wood because we're going to haveit like a stand sort of thing. right. so there's a base andthe front of the base is going to come downto the, basically this is going to golike this, there's another piece supportingit in the back.
you really likedthe 35 degree angle. yeah. so we're going to cut the bottomof this piece of 35 degree angle and the front of thebase of the 35 degree angle. and if that doesn't makesense, it will in just second. and we're taping ourwood because our blade isn't the [inaudible] we could use a new bladeor a blade sharpened. and we're crosscutting on hardwood.
so i'm going to turnthis a little bit. and i'm going to stand back. because if i slip i'll bethe one screaming and going to the hospital. [sawing] looks perfect. so this will bepart of our base. and this is going toslide down right there. and we're going to glueand pocket screw the base
onto the vertical there. and that's the idea. ta-da! whew. now comes the fun part. drilling. yay. these are forstner bits. what's cool about these isessentially it's chisel,
face, it's chisel, face, andthen these teeth out here saw the outside ofyour circle, so. the points set thecenter of your circle and as it spins it shavesof little curlicues of wood. in fact, from ourearlier efforts, little curlicues of wood. cool. curlicue? so it'll make life easy.
ah, yeah. the one thing i wish is if wehad a second two inch forstner bit for this, wecould shave this off, and we can get even lowerto the service or the one on the other side. because we want to get as lowas possible with this so that, they're the wireless coilsin the phone or as close as possible. bingo.
plus our magnets, but we'lltalk about magnets in a minute. all right. so what i did is i setour drill press down, basically within amillimeter of the plate, using the depth guide. so this will either workreally well or i'll be sad. but we have more wood. are we going to be doingmagnets on this one? that's the plan.
so the whole back is prettymagnetic in that area. so in theory, if weput four magnets, it should hold it upa little bit better. and align thingsin the right place. so the magnets went in,then the coil went back in. the coil that worked beforewe put the magnets in-- no longer work. it was a fail. let's just put it that way.
so what we didn't realizeuntil we looked back at the instructions was thatthey hadn't used drill bits to drill out theholes to the magnets. they used an end mill. a big flat bottomhalf inch end mill to hog out the holesfor the magnets as close to thesurface of the wood on the other sidethey could get. took a couple minuteslater with the chop saw,
the first attempt ata oak charging stand is now a lovelyrefrigerator magnet. [? q ?] build two. which of course has tobe back at the drill press with the forstner bit. and so since we didn'thave an end mill, i used a half inch routerbit we had queued up into the drill press. by the way, if you'rethinking to yourself,
gosh couldn't these guys havesat down and designed something before hand using somesophisticated modern cad software? i'd like to point you toour sponsor lynda.com/diy, who in fact, amongst theincredible array of video lessons, onlinetutorials available, has an actual collectionof autocad tutorials. and i will actually be spendingquality time with that, because it's timefor me to start
designing beforei start drilling. we're just wingingit as we go along. we do that sometimes. lynda.com/diy, if youdon't want to just wing it. just to give our coil alittle bit more advantage, i routed out the centerof that two inch hole where the coil wasgoing down into. probably not thesafest thing i've done in this workshop, whichis kind of frightening to think
about. at six magnets anda pile of crazy glue later, we popped the coilinto place and lo and behold-- --we've got a nicelittle charging stand. blue means it'scharging, so it's charging my phone right now. now you may notice a certainlack of sophistication and savoir faire and inour completion of design, this is the power supplierthat feeds our induction plate.
it's project. you would think that it wouldbe easy to put a little charger coil in a piece ofwood, but it's not. partially because my woodworkingskills are apparently even worse than i remember. and michael's are-- --i never had wood shop. well, and more is the pity. and if your child has theopportunity to take wood shop,
let them. it was funny. it's also part of the problem. induction charging is finicky. and not the most efficient. what did you say, it was like10 minutes to raise a 2%? it's something like that. it takes awhile. i don't know if i would usethis on a regular basis.
why? because you're afraid the heatfrom the induction charging will light the oak on fire? maybe. it was funny, theoriginal idea for this was to take-- thisis a basswood, it's kind of acousin to balsa wood. it's commonly available at hobbyshops, your better equipped hardware store.
my original idea was totake a piece of wood, route it out, and mount theinduction and the induction coil and the magnetsto the bass wood. and they just have a nicecharging sort of plate. do that. get thing wood. don't bring routersand drills into this. well you would-- or do do it.
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here. let's say just plugin for right now. we'll see you nextweek on "diy tryin." just one thing go right today. come on. where's my charging. well we made a nice stand. maybe someday itwill be wireless.
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