Lego iPod Dock

Awww… ain’t this adorable – and relatively cheap. Rather than blow his budget on an iPod dock, Senator Penguin out at instructibles.com decided to build one of his own, out of LEGO bricks. The dock holds and locks the iPod USB or Firewire cable in place for the iPod to, er, sit on. He calls it the iPod Throne. We call it cute (all pictures from instructibles.com).

The only materials you’ll need are LEGO blocks. Lots and lots of assorted LEGO bricks. And since they’re LEGO bricks, the secret is that you don’t even need the exact pieces Sen. Penguin used in his iPod Throne! You just need to get to the Throne’s basic configuration – especially that cable locking mechanism – with what LEGO you have on hand (of course, if you find out to your horror that you don’t have enough bricks, you may have to pay a little visit to your friendly neighborhood toy store. Or sneak into LEGOLand for spare bricks. Good luck with that).

Sen. Penguin hasn’t tried the dock out on anything other than a 4G 20GB color iPod – but another secret to LEGO is that anything you make can be remade and customized as you see fit. Worst-case, he says, is that the front lip that keeps the iPod from slipping off and the Throne’s backrest may have to be adjusted for iPods of different configurations.

Awww… ain’t this adorable – and relatively cheap. Rather than blow his budget on an iPod dock, Senator Penguin out at instructibles.com decided to build one of his own, out of LEGO bricks. The dock holds and locks the iPod USB or Firewire cable in place for the iPod to, er, sit on. He calls it the iPod Throne. We call it cute (all pictures from instructibles.com).

The only materials you’ll need are LEGO blocks. Lots and lots of assorted LEGO bricks. And since they’re LEGO bricks, the secret is that you don’t even need the exact pieces Sen. Penguin used in his iPod Throne! You just need to get to the Throne’s basic configuration – especially that cable locking mechanism – with what LEGO you have on hand (of course, if you find out to your horror that you don’t have enough bricks, you may have to pay a little visit to your friendly neighborhood toy store. Or sneak into LEGOLand for spare bricks. Good luck with that).

Sen. Penguin hasn’t tried the dock out on anything other than a 4G 20GB color iPod – but another secret to LEGO is that anything you make can be remade and customized as you see fit. Worst-case, he says, is that the front lip that keeps the iPod from slipping off and the Throne’s backrest may have to be adjusted for iPods of different configurations.