I can't believe they want $49 for that thing! I was originally going to make a derivative work from Todbot's laser-cut dock (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:798) but as I was reviewing the files I noticed a couple of things:
So I made a completely new dock. There are some drawbacks to this design though. The assembly requires some acrylic cement or superglue to join the bottom two pieces to each other and, if you like, to the top five pieces.
This dock is made to use the SHORT iPhone 3G connector (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA591G/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0OQ&mco=MTM3NDk1NzI) that ships with the phone. The fit for the iPhone connector is VERY tight by design. I don't want it to wiggle around.
The dock is designed so that you can extricate your cable if necessary provided you don't glue parts together as in the optional step 8, below.
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