Never mind what you can do for clients--the biggest perk of having an ID background is that you can design and build cool stuff for yourself, customized to your idiosyncrasies. Here industrial designer Eric Strebel needs a charging station to fit his specific workflow. With a little sci-fi inspiration, he turns to a variety of power tools and reaches into his bag of efficiency tricks to craft exactly what he needs.

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"It helps me organize all my batteries for my cameras, scales, mice, keyboards, gimbals, and miscellaneous chargers in one spot," Strebel writes. "It also is a cell phone and tablet holder/charger. Follow the journey from sketch through build where I use MDF, hardboard, existing Decora outlets and an old server power connector to build a Sci-Fi-spaceship-inspired battery station complete with vinyl graphics for my shop."