Making a stand for the Apple Homepod
When we're not making websites we like to make real objects. We recently made a stand for our Apple HomePod that sits by our coffee machine (we call it the CoffeePod). We really just wanted to elevate it off the surface so it could avoid spills a little better. The HomePod is such a simple and very nice looking thing it was hard to come up with something that would do it justice. The wood is some Iroko hardwood I had lying around and seemed to match the coffee unit well enough. The silicone HomePod stand was about £7 from Amazon. The base material was high grade nitrile rubber/neroprene bonded cork (does not soak up liquids, very heat tolerant, doesn't swell, absorbs vibration & looks nice!). We didn't get any footage of the hole drilling or sanding. I drilled it with a cheap mains electric power drill with a long shaft fostner bit. Keeping it straight enough was an absolute nightmare. Sanding took quite a while, it all went to 800 grit. I used strips of sandpaper for a belt sander of some sort to get inside the hole, I made a curved MDF stick to push the paper through the hole and get good abrasion all along the inside. It was finished with slightly diluted danish oil with a little additional polyeurathane varnish. This was applied lightly and wiped off promptly to try and avoid the Iroko going dark and dull which I've seen before. The final result wasn't perfect but does the job nicely and we're pretty pleased with it. Thanks for watching my video.
When we're not making websites we like to make real objects. We recently made a stand for our Apple HomePod that sits by our coffee machine (we call it the CoffeePod). We really just wanted to elevate it off the surface so it could avoid spills a little better. The HomePod is such a simple and very nice looking thing it was hard to come up with something that would do it justice. The wood is some Iroko hardwood I had lying around and seemed to match the coffee unit well enough. The silicone HomePod stand was about £7 from Amazon. The base material was high grade nitrile rubber/neroprene bonded cork (does not soak up liquids, very heat tolerant, doesn't swell, absorbs vibration & looks nice!). We didn't get any footage of the hole drilling or sanding. I drilled it with a cheap mains electric power drill with a long shaft fostner bit. Keeping it straight enough was an absolute nightmare. Sanding took quite a while, it all went to 800 grit. I used strips of sandpaper for a belt sander of some sort to get inside the hole, I made a curved MDF stick to push the paper through the hole and get good abrasion all along the inside. It was finished with slightly diluted danish oil with a little additional polyeurathane varnish. This was applied lightly and wiped off promptly to try and avoid the Iroko going dark and dull which I've seen before. The final result wasn't perfect but does the job nicely and we're pretty pleased with it. Thanks for watching my video.