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This is a quick tripod mount you can build that will attach an ipod touch to any standard tripod. As an added bonus, there's enough material left over...
Materials: -one altoids tin (you actually only need the lid!) -one pair of broken headphones (you need the plug) -some thin cardstock -a 1/4" 20 nut (...
Get the lid off the altoids tin! that's the only part of the tin we'll use! keep the rest around though, that stuff's useful. This should be pretty ...
You don't even have to measure this. Just use the bottom of the word Altoids, and the serif-y feet to line up the straightedge and draw your line.
cut along that line! Make sure you get the edges cut too. you may have to bend the sides of the lid out a bit to get the tinsnips in there, don't wor...
This step will seem a bit complicated, but it's still pretty easy. We need to cut off the vertical side of the lower left corner of that smaller half ...
Now that we've got that left corner side taken off, we need to squish down the rest of the sides to make the little space where the nut will go. The ...
To make the back of the little table where your iPod's going to sit, we need to bend this thing at a right angle. The easiest way to do this is to jus...
Now would be a great time to plug in the hot glue gun if you haven't already! For the final few steps of the mount itself, we're going to need a littl...
Now we can get the actual extra material we're going to have. For the stand, you aren't going to need the left and right sides of this piece. Cut off...
By now the glue gun should be heated up. First off, we're going to glue on that nut. To make sure the nut sticks out of the little spot we've made f...
The next thing we've got to do is put the cardstock padding onto the back of the mount. How tall a piece you use is up to you, but you want it to cov...
Cut the plug off the headphones. Simple as that.
I find that the easiest way to accurately mark where the headphone jack is going to need to be glued on is to plug it into your ipod, and set the thin...
The mount is almost done! Now you just have to glue the plug onto the cardstock right where you marked. Depending on what headphones you used, you ma...
This is a kind of complicated step, but the rest isn't bad. Take that other big piece of the lid that we set aside. Find the center of it, and draw a...
use the tinsnips to cut out those black parts. If you cant quite get the inner edges, just fold them under and squish them down with the pliers. I ha...
those long parts that look like the legs of a sideways H are going to be the legs of the stand. You'll need to fold them in half hotdog style though t...
now you need to get a hole in this thing for the bolt. If you have a metal punch, that works great. You can use the other piece of extra material tha...
To make the legs, first you need to keep them legs themselves flat and bend each entire half of the thing up. Once you've done that, bend the legs dow...
and glue it! glue from both sides if you can. You want both sides to be really stuck to it. Wait for that to dry and you can screw it onto your tri...
Check it out! look at this awesomeness. You just made a tiny tripod mount AND a tiny not even tripod but QUADRO-POD out of only the LID of an altoids...
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