Woodworking · Wireless Chargers

Wireless Chargers

Handmade wooden wireless phone chargers. Both pads share the same internals, detailed in the construction section below.

Walnut Wireless Charging Pad - Cut Corners

Square wireless charger in solid walnut with cut corners, USB cable entering the side — The cut-corner pad. Click any image to enlarge.

Wireless charger in solid Walnut, a square body with cut corners.

Walnut Wireless Charging Pad - Rounded Corners

Square wireless charger in solid walnut with rounded corners, USB cable entering the side — The rounded-corner pad.

Wireless charger in solid Walnut, the same square body with rounded corners.

Construction

CYD8012 Qi wireless charging transmitter module, a wound copper coil on a ferrite disc wired to a green driver PCB with USB-C and micro-USB ports. — The CYD8012 Qi transmitter module before installation.

Both pads are built the same way. The Walnut body is drilled out to house a CYD8012 10W Qi transmitter module, with Kapton tape separating the ferrite sheet and coil from the driver board. The base is sealed with a glued 1/4 inch birch plywood panel and finished with a rubber anti-slip pad.