I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock

Re:I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock by schiffern on Monday September 23, 2024 @12:43PM (#41627970)

In theory, with parametric design (eg OpenSCAD, Autodesk Inventor, etc) a model could allow you to enter the phone dimensions and it automatically re-calculates the correct geometry.

In practice, experience says doing this (in a robust way) is a lot harder than it sounds. ;)

Thanks, very nice design and write-up.

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Re:I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock by stavros on Monday September 23, 2024 @06:44PM (#41631376)

It's not really that much harder, as long as you know which dimensions you want to be variable from the start. Going back and changing everything after the fact is a massive pain.

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Re:I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock by notpushkin on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @01:23AM (#41633315)

I’ve started to put something together in OpenSCAD: https://u.ale.sh/braunscadv1.png

I’ll share the source once it’s a bit less painful to look at (right now everything is a bunch of copy-pasted spaghetti code :')

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Re:I Designed a Dieter Rams Inspired iPhone Dock by cianmm on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @02:37AM (#41633661)

I am extremely interested in this. I’ve got a new iPhone 16 and I’d love to use it in its case with this stand.

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