German blogger Kitesurfer added a few innovative touches when building a charging station into an IKEA Expedit Bookcase. The charging station involves creating a chipboard panel to cover a power strip leaving the cables feeding through the panel to the cubby. Kitesurfer takes this basic design a step further by adding a digital picture frame displaying various battery charge images.
This hack will work in just about any type of bookcase or shelving, but the Ikea Expedit is a popular fixture for Ikea hacking that we’ve covered several times, so if you choose that you may be able to combine a charging station with another hack.
Mobilephone Changingstation [Kitesurfer1404 via Unpluggd]
Christian
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 1:03 PMWhat would be better would be if you converted a power point into a USB powered wall/face plate with 4 or 5 USB slots in it.
The face plate would be powered of course to provide the juice and you just plug in your phone/tablet USB cable etc.
Chris
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 3:53 PMWould look neater with an iphone dock or two..