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Mattia from Italy first made this project and sent us the images below for the sugru gallery. We thought it was amazing. So what's the best thing to do with amazing projects? Make a step by step instructable to help everyone make their own of course!
Oh, and we thought it would be cool to make one for an iPad too, so we did. Yay :)
Oh, and we thought it would be cool to make one for an iPad too, so we did. Yay :)
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Signing UpStep 1What you need - an old book, and sugru
The nicest iPad or Kindle case can be made from an old leather bound book, the challenge is to find the right size, we found ours in a second hand book shop.
To get the best fit, we brought our Kindle and iPad with us, this way we just held each tablet up to the book to find the best fit, simple.
Car boot sales, charity shops oh, and your attic are also great places to look.
Once we found the best fitting books, we were ready to get cracking :)
You can get sugru from sugru.com or from the instructables store.
TOP TIP: As well as getting the right size it is important to get the right thickness so that the book will close.
The hooks add around 2cm to the thickness of the tablet so your book needs to be thick enough to contain both.
We made this mistake with our ipad book and unfortunately it wouldn't shut properly :(
Oh well, we live and we learn. Best to be too thick than too thin in this instance.
To get the best fit, we brought our Kindle and iPad with us, this way we just held each tablet up to the book to find the best fit, simple.
Car boot sales, charity shops oh, and your attic are also great places to look.
Once we found the best fitting books, we were ready to get cracking :)
You can get sugru from sugru.com or from the instructables store.
TOP TIP: As well as getting the right size it is important to get the right thickness so that the book will close.
The hooks add around 2cm to the thickness of the tablet so your book needs to be thick enough to contain both.
We made this mistake with our ipad book and unfortunately it wouldn't shut properly :(
Oh well, we live and we learn. Best to be too thick than too thin in this instance.
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Just curious, what difference does it make if the tape is not offset and is then under the tablet? Do you do this purely for aesthetics?
Also, having never worked with Sugru myself, if you are constantly bending the hooks to place/remove the tablet, about how long to you expect them to last before wearing out?
Maybe even with layers of something (cellophane?) in between.
I plan one of these but will use thin sheet metal (soda can) dipped in plasti-dip for the corners.
Firstly apologies that you haven't had much luck with sugru yet. Maybe you could let us know what problems you are having and we could give you some tips.
In regards to the tablet case, ours hasn't failed yet but then we haven't been using it everyday. My advice would be to make sure that the clips are perfect. That is the weakest part of this hack, the fact that they could tear when lifting up and down. As long as you ensure that the clips lie very straight over the corners of the iPad and do not wrap around the corners then you should be fine. If the sugru clip wraps around the corner while lying over it there is a good chance that it could rip. If you keep it very straight then you reduce that risk.
I hope that helps and if there is any more sugru advice we can give you then please let us know. We love talking about all things sugru!
sugru's flexibility just depends on how thick you make it. A lump of it will be quite hard but in thinner pieces it can be very flexible. With this hack as long as you keep the clips as thin as possible you will have enough flex to remove the iPad.