Nexus 7 (2013) Laser Cut QI Charging alignment Frame

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I bought an inductive QI charger which is designed for cell phones, but also charges my Nexus 7 tablet. The only problem is that the tablet needs to be precisely centered to be charged, which takes a bit of effort to get exactly right, and if it's bumped off center it stops charging. So I built this frame that sits over the top of the charger and holds my tablet exactly centered over the charging coil. It's made up of 3 layers of laser cut plywood, one around the charger, and two identical ones to frame the tablet. I stained it with an "Ebony" color after gluing the layers together. The specific QI charger I have is this one: http://amzn.to/2Dlmxzy but if you have a differently shaped one you can just edit the center cutout of the charger base file. You can see a video of it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNgHPEWmR14