my wife and i just got moto droids and i wanted to get a couple of
those multi-media docs for them, but i don't think any will work with
my protective case, so i am probably stuck making my own. this would
be cool except that i have never designed anything before, so i need
some help.
there are thousands of instructables for making iphone docs, and one
here for making a droid dock out of a box:
a few folks have made docs from legos, but i thought a dock printed
with black ABS plastic would be totally bad ass.
the droid senses car and multimedia docs with a magnet and brings up
either a full screen navigation program, or a clock/slide show program
based on the polarity of the magnet. a cursory google search
indicates a fridge magnet is all you need, plus a right angle microUSB
cable since the droid sits sideways in most docs.
here is a thingiverse entry for a g1 dock:
and another for a g1 with an extended battery:
and one to put a g1 in sideways:
but g1's charge from the bottom (i'm assuming), not the side, so no
droid love so far from thingiverse, i think it's time for hive13 to
step up 
the droid has to sit sideways in wide screen mode, and there is talk
about the work surface for the makerbot not being big enough to print
the dock in one piece in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/makerbot/browse_thread/thread/4eba69b063ad2655/da9e3fd64f6f36b0?
based on that, i think the dock would probably have to be printed in a
couple of pieces and glued/snapped together. also the droid is really
heavy for a mobile phone, so regardless of the design, it will
probably washers or something to anchor the unit to keep it from
falling over if bumped.
i think all that might be necessary is to modify the 1058 or 1559
designs a bit to accommodate the side charging nature of the droid and
to add a place to attach something to anchor the base.
anyone interested in helping me? anyone else with a droid interested
in a desktop charging dock?
