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Custom Battery Charging Station Design/Build

Never mind what you can do for clients–the biggest perk of having an ID background is that you can design and build cool stuff for yourself, customized to your idiosyncrasies. Here industrial designer Eric Strebel needs a charging station to fit his specific workflow. With a little sci-fi inspiration, he turns to a variety of power tools and reaches into his bag of efficiency tricks to craft exactly what he needs.

“It helps me organize all my batteries for my cameras, scales, mice, keyboards, gimbals, and miscellaneous chargers in one spot,” Strebel writes. “It also is a cell phone and tablet holder/charger. Follow the journey from sketch through build where I use MDF, hardboard, existing Decora outlets and an old server power connector to build a Sci-Fi-spaceship-inspired battery station complete with vinyl graphics for my shop.”