DIY Qi wireless charging nightstand

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YouTube user lobbamobba has published a video showing how to create a DIY Qi wireless charging nightstand. The project combines an IKEA Hemnes nightstand (£40) with a standard Nokia wireless charging plate (£45) to create the ultimate night time resting place for the Nokia Lumia 920, 820, or 720, or any other Qi wireless charging enabled product. 

Wireless charging is very convenient, but the accessories (plate, pillow, stadn) can be a little bulky. This DIY solutions offers one way in which you can hide away everything except the power cable. It works because the phone does not have to be sitting directly on the Qi charging coils. For example, the Nokia wireless charging plate (DT-900) will continue to work through about 0.5cm of most solid, non-metallic, materials.

Video description:

Charge your Nexus 4, Lumia 920, or any other device that supports Qi on top of your night stand. It only took about 1 hour and 45 minutes to build using some cheap tools.

 You could use almost any type of night stand but this one is from IKEA and therefore sold world wide and it comes in many colors. There are a number of methods to do this but I wanted to keep it as simple and quick as possible. You can take it to the next level by just carving around the charger and then drill a hole for the cable to run through. 

If you don't want to place it like I did so that it is supported by the bottom part of the nightstand just put a peace of sheet metal or something to hold it up instead.

Source / Credit: YouTube