Borg alcove phone stand

April 29 2023 UPDATE - I revisited this today and am very VERY HAPPY to present V3.  So, please welcome 3 of 3 to the collective.

This model is properly meshed and FULLY MANIFOLD.  I am super stoked about this!

 Combine this with a product found on Amazon by searching for 2.5" Plasma Plate Portable and Clip-on Mini Pocket Plasma Disk with Voice and Touch Response (this is NOT a plug for the product it's simply what I used) to make it next level for about $20.

It's time to add this biological and technological distinctiveness to your own Collective.

Enjoy!

PS - I know the file is huge.  I'm running a decimate on it to try to reduce it.  If it works I will post that.

March 20,2023 UPDATE First print was terrible.  I have since tried to tweak this stl so it is more manifold.  I'm not going to lie, it's not fully manifold.  The reason being that I have only been doing 3D printing for about a month and learning Blender through trial and error with YT videos.  For the second version Im going to post here, it is far more manifold but I could not get it past having 1024 non-manifolds.  Far better than the original 50k+ that was in there.  I then did a couple test prints with a raft and got about 11-14% then stopped the print to make sure the width would be fine.  From there, I would scale up as needed.  In the end for my Pixel 7, I ended up scaling 125% in Cura.  Of course, the print was going fantastic but taking forever, so I went to bed and woke in the morning to a 98% complete print and a birds nest to clean up.  I was able to make a spar and some other tweaks that made this usable and acceptable for me.  I'd like to try this from scratch again, but I've lost my patience with it, so I'll be moving on.  Be wary that this is temperamental, put together in Blender by a total novice (me) who decided to run before learning to crawl. I did add the plasma plate.  It has basic belt clip design on the back, so I drilled a couple of small holes, ran a zip tie through the back, tightened as needed and ran a small button of plastic with my 3D pen just below one corner to keep it stable when it's in place.  I didn't permanently mount because eventually, the batteries will need replaced.

It would be awesome if someone far more experienced than I could take this and remix it so it's cleaner.  Once I get good at this, I may come back and do this all over again.

I needed a COOL phone stand and anything that I saw left me disappointed.  I built the base framework to make this functional as possible but in addition, I have a plasma plate light in green that I will mount at the top so it flashes like a Borg alcove.  The back interior of the wall is created from a still photo of the actual alcove used in one of the Star Trek movies.  I added some details on my own, but upon discovering Tooner.it Borg cube with sphere, I knew those panels could be embedded to take this the final mile.  I will add photos once I've made one and my printer is available, but the slice preview has me pretty excited!