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iPod Dance

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Well, all the new iPods come with a "universal dock adapter" so you can use it with a dock you buy. However, I didn't want to buy a dock. So what I did was:

1. Find Box. I used the box for an old iPod carrying case, but any box that's taller than 1.5 inches, and about a Dock size.

2. Cut hole in box to match dock adapter.

3. Use superglue or whatever to glue in dock adapter into hole.

4. Use hotglue gun to put the USB cable sticking into the dock adapter hole.

5. wrap cord inside, and plug your dock in, ready to sync.

The iPod plugs in just enough to sync, but not enough to 'lock' in, so you can simply lift your iPod when you're ready.

Cool, eh?
 

theoutsidr

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looks pretty good to my surprise for a peice of cardboard i wanna try to make one from wood
 

jsupetran

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WOW looks great! That'd be a great project to do, especially using wood.
 

SWTrader

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I was going to sell my extra USB dock cables I had, Now I think I'll make some Dock Cradles from my friends.

Great Idea OP
 

mattalways2020

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But how would the pins not make it wanna hold the ipod in, did you glue the sides in? Or did you break off the little side tabs that hold it in?
 

Tomo_kun

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If you read it he said that he made it so that the clips dont lock in by not inserting the iPod all the way.........


Anyway, its great, but no line out :(. I might do that for a dock on my computer.
 

restless nomad

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love your work man

power to the people!

incentive to buy the real dock is the infrared port, which will be nice to remotely control the ipod with once its hooked up to a fat speaker system in my room.
 
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