[Hardware] Nexus 7 Inductive Charging Mod (using Palm Touchstones)

[rwhitby]

Got a couple of spare Palm Touchstones lying around? You can use them to inductively charge your Nexus 7:






Full details in a series of 12 posts at Google+, start at http://goo.gl/2gxd5 for the full story.

-- Rod

[GMMan]

Haha, literally a couple of Touchstones. Are the coils from Pre backplates? Have you tried with the TouchPad Touchstone?

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by GMMan

Haha, literally a couple of Touchstones. Are the coils from Pre backplates? Have you tried with the TouchPad Touchstone?

Yes, the coils are from Pre/Pre+/Pre2 backplates.

The TouchPad touchstone won't work - see https://plus.google.com/101739011161...ts/7VnRoFm9cT5 for details.

-- Rod

[rwhitby]

I extended this mod a bit:





-- Rod

[rwhitby]

Now I have four of them



-- Rod

[Lueftungauf4]

I thought you used 2 coils for more input. But your touchpad touchstone / phone touchstone hybrid mod uses only one stone. Do you need two of those kinds to charge the nexus seven or are the two coils just for orientation options while charging?
Anyway, nicely done.