Make Your Own Tech Accessories

29.03.2011

Fear not, Android/BlackBerry/other users, for we haven't forgotten about you. In your case, try making a phone holder by taking a regular old soda cup--the specific size depends on the size of your phone and/or cup holder--and cutting what amounts to a high-back chair out of it.

We're borrowing this technique from Steph of the blog Upcycle Us, because it's just that cool: using chopsticks to make a stand for your tablet PC.

To start this DIY project, you'll need a ton of chopsticks (probably 15). Puncture a small hole near the end of five of them, glue four together on top of one another, and use a tiny nut and bolt combination (probably a 4-40) to attach the fifth. This is the front of your stand. Glue a few more chopsticks together (to fit the depth of your device), and glue them to the chopstick immediately above the swiveling one on the line you just created. That's the bottom of your holder. Take the rest of the chopsticks and glue them together to form the back of the stand, and then glue them to the previous set such that the end of the line of chopsticks is on the same horizontal plane as the swiveling chopstick.