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Amazon Echo to Apple HomePod conversion kit

Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:36 pm

After the reveal of the HomePod, I have to admit I was a bit jealous of the sweet fabric exterior it sported. Then I remembered that I work for a sewing company and had a roll of that fabric in the warehouse. So today, after five minutes of R&D, I would like to present, my prototype Amazon Echo to Apple HomePad conversion kit.

My design has the courage to show the seams. Seams are beautiful, not something to hide. Grandmas make wonderful seamless 3D mesh fabric, they call it knitting booties. But do you want booties on your speakers? I didn't think so.

Jealously be gone!

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Re: Amazon Echo to Apple HomePad conversion kit

Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:41 pm

Pics of cats using it as a scratching post or it didn't happen!! :wink:
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Re: Amazon Echo to Apple HomePad conversion kit

Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:52 pm

Pretty cool actually. Very courageous. But actually yeah, I do like booties shaking around my speakers.
 
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Re: Amazon Echo to Apple HomePad conversion kit

Tue Jun 06, 2017 4:54 pm

Have you looked at the sleeves available for the Tap?
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Re: Amazon Echo to Apple HomePad conversion kit

Tue Jun 06, 2017 5:45 pm

I have now. Lol, it just makes me sad. You just can't sew things like in the states for those prices, not unless you had a ridiculous volume. My stupid creation above, with it's square foot of material and three stitch lines would probably cost ~$10 at retail. The kind of sleeves that show up when you search Amazon are 5x as complicated but sell for the same amount.

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