Stand for TomTom Sat Nav

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Every couple of weeks or so I take my Sat Nav out of my car to update the software (new maps, radar traps, POIs etc). One of the annoying things about it is that I have to plug it into a USB power supply but because it doesn’t have a stand it is awkward to use. I either have to hold it to browse the menus, or lie it face down so I can’t see when it has finished updating.

On this very wet Wednesday I decided to do something about it and designed a very simple stand to just hold it vertical while it updates This is what I created in OpenScad:

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The code was really simple:

// Stand for Tom Tom

//Variables

lth=50;    //length
gap=20;  //width of TomTom
thk=3;     //Stand thickness
fit=2;      //Allowance for fit
rht=27;  //height of back
fht=12;  //height of front
cr=3;     //Corner radius

$fn=100;

//Varables End


//Base

cube([lth,gap+fit+(thk*2),thk]);


//Rear

translate([0,thk,0])
    rotate([90,0,0])
    piece(lth,rht+thk,thk, thk);

//Front

translate([0,(thk*2)+gap+fit,0])
    rotate([90,0,0])
    piece(lth,fht+thk,thk, thk);

//Front and rear uprights

module piece(bwide,blen,bht,brad){

    translate ([brad,brad,0]){
    
		hull(){
			translate([0,0,0])cylinder(r=brad,h=bht);
			
			translate([bwide-(brad*2),0,0])cylinder(r=brad,h=bht);
			
			translate([0,blen-(brad*2),0])cylinder(r=brad,h=bht);
			
			translate([bwide-(brad*2),blen-(brad*2),0])cylinder(r=brad,h=bht);
		}
	}
}

This is what I printed out:

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The printing took under an hour, the design process about 20 minutes.

Quite pleased with myself

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Why not craft it from this?
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No need for codes just one of these
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If it was me I wooden stand for it.

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It’s hard doing coding, when yer as thick as two short planks

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I could have used my router to make something out of wood I suppose but making it out of plastic was easier and didn’t involve going out in the rain.

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Having invested in the printer, it would be a shame not to use it spose

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It’s like most things technical Spitty, they may look complicated at first glance, but turn out to be easy once you’ve learned how to do it…Question is though…How much do you want to learn it?..

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Never saw the point Foxy, at the start when programming was programming and one needed endless mathematical qualifications to make sense of it, the march was on to create building blocks for future software engineers to use as a tool box, this generation are probably nearing the end of this evolution, ready to hand over to the AI, still, quite a few people made a good living in the interim :icon_wink: :grin:

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@Bruce Nice work. Wish I had the tech and the abilities to do that sort of stuff. Are you going to develop it further and add tweaks to make it even better? :blush::+1:

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No, I doubt it, it serves the purpose and is only in use for less than half an hour at a time.

it uses a module which I created ages ago and can be adapted to different purposes.

This particular design could easily be altered to hold something larger like an iPad for example just by changing the variables. I like using variables because you only need to make one change to affect everything.

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