I’m a mobile developer and my desk has always been a mess because of all of the devices I need to manually test on scattered about.
This weekend I decided to finally organize my desk. To help do that I looked up some solutions for phone organization and decided instead of buying an organizer I can just design and print my own.
Used a caliper to measure the dimensions of the devices, wrote down an approximate ideal size of the organizer based on that.
Created this design in opencad after relearning the tool (haven’t used it in a few months).
Then got it printed in petg.
And voila it works. I’m pretty happy the first prototype worked as the print time was around 4 hours so I really didn’t want to have to iterate too many times.
Foam tape is really really hard to remove right? When we would install batteries with it for devices, the 3M stuff was almost impossible to remove without damaging the battery.
I think your mixing up single and double sided foam tape, i beleive he is suggesting single sided foam tape to give some cushion to the edge of the phones.
Also the stuff in phones for batteries and other loose items is heavy duty strength because they dont want batteries coming loose and rattling about in there. Most double sided foam tape you get in a hardware store is just a bit sticker than regular sticky tape.
I’ve found that the best way to remove 3M’s foam-backed stuff (both single- and double-sided) is to carefully pick up one corner, then use your finger to slowly roll it up one bit at a time. The adhesive doesn’t really hold when only a small area is under stress, and it doesn’t tend to leave any residue behind.
I don’t have any tricks for the double-sided foil-backed tape, it’s a right bastard to remove.