How to Make a Lego Brick iPod Dock or Cell Phone Charging Base

A Creative and Useful Craft for All Ages

Lego Blocks lend themselves to extremely creative building projects, from the very simple to the ornate, detailed and involved. The only thing limiting the creativity of a Lego Block project, is the imagination of the individual builder. We decided to build something useful, and came up with our own interpretations of both an Ipod dock and a cell phone charging base.

My daughter wanted one of the expensive docks for her Ipod, but hadn't saved enough money yet to make that purchase and I needed a stand for my cell phone that could both hold it while it was charging, and keep it in an upright position so I could see who the incoming calls were from. That way I can screen them while I worked at my desk, without having to constantly pick up the phone to see who was calling. .

Inspired by one we saw in a DIGG article, we decided to try our hands at building one out of Lego Bricks ourselves. Now ours do not look as clean lined and professional as that example, but they suit us and that, after all, is the point of creating them ourselves, for ourselves, out of Lego Blocks.

This was a fun building and craft project for both my daughter and myself, to do together, and we are pleased with our finished projects. They work perfectly for what we needed.

Supplies Needed:

A small Lego Block base. (We used the 5" x 5" bases for ours.)

A variety of Lego Blocks to make your individual creation with. (The amount needed depends on how large or detailed a finished project you want.)

Your imagination

Look at what specific features you will need for your own cell phone charging stand. There are many types of cell phones. Mine is a one piece Nokia that does not fold and close.

The Cell phone charging base needed to be tall enough to allow clearance for the charging cord on the bottom of my cell phone, without stressing and bending it.

It also needed enough support behind and around it to keep it standing upright in it's base. So I could see the face of the phone without picking it up.

It needed an opening at the back, so the cord could go through the back of the base, and a spot to set the connection part of the cord when the cell was not charging. That way t it won't fall into the stand.