LG G Watch Charging Stand

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I recently bought this Black Stainless Steel Watch Band for my LG G Watch and it looks really great, but it totally prevents using the charging cradle flat as intended because the watch band can't open completely - instead, you have to place the cradle inside the band in order to charge your watch. That's not terrible or anything, but it's not a particularly good situation either, plus using a table doesn't add any new utility. So I figured out that what I needed was a stand that could hold my charging cradle so I could just place my watch on it from one side and have it facing me, and then I also wanted the stand to tilt at an angle when I'm not using it as a time-teller, so I can use it as a normal clock. Since the G Watch screen is always on, that worked out perfectly. As I set up my model, I was starting to feel pretty smug about thinking I'd come up with something completely new - turns out I wasn't the only person to think of this solution though. That happens when you start getting into 3D printing and I decided to just keep moving forward anyway. My design turned out perfectly in terms of my needs and now it sits happily on my nightstand, where it looks great as a time-teller. The stand itself is very stable and works great. The whole design was made specifically with the original USB cable in mind - if you wanted to use a different one, that's probably something you'd have to modify to get right, since I was using an original. To give everything its finishing touches, I curved out some of my channel's edges slightly so that the USB cables wouldn't get all bent out of shape when they're stuck inside and then took things even further by giving my stand some really neat chamfered edges, which end up looking pretty nice once printed. In spite of some tiny flaws from bad printer calibration, everything came out okay in the end.