It sure has been a busy day at CodingExperiments. After dealing with countless bugs in WordPress, I decided to chill out with my fifth generation 30 gigabyte iPod video.

My iPod video needs an iPod dock, though. Docks for an iPod are more expensive than they’re worth. Besides, plenty of people have written DIY articles about how to make your own iPod dock. It couldn’t be that hard.

I decided to make my iPod dock out of the box that it came in. It took some digging around to find the box as I bought my iPod in 2006.

I decided that it wouldn’t be that hard to cut up the box and make an iPod dock, so I wouldn’t need to read anybody’s DIY tutorial on how to make one.

After some cutting, I ended up with an iPod dock. It looked pretty bad, but it worked well. It wasn’t propped up, so it laid flat. That made it difficult to read the song that it was playing on the screen.

I decided to add in a jewel CD case. The swiveling cover would be perfect to prop it up. The only problem with that was that there was no grip on it. It would simply lay flat again.

I looked at my mousepad, and found inspiration. I could tape the box to the mousepad and then tape a small, circular “grippy thingy” to the jewel case and the “grippy thingy” would grip the mousepad well.

This ended up working perfectly and I got an iPod dock that doesn’t look good at all, but I’m still proud of it

Continue on to see pictures.