Most sugru users start with a simple repair… and what we’ve found is that sometimes a repair – as well as being a solution – can also be an opportunity for awesomeness!

We love that thought! So we made a video of 3 simple improvements to the iphone cable that evolved from the classic sugru repair / strain relief hack.

Have any of your repairs resulted in you making improvements to the design of something? We’d love to hear about them!

After years of fumbling around and complaining we thought that it was about time we did something about the crappy USB ports on the iMacs in our office.

With 2 small magnets and a USB extension lead, we made a clever way to access our USB ports that’s totally awesome to use.

We should add that this is our second attempt at cracking the problem. We were told by the shy folk on Instructables that the original solution was ugly Thanks for pushing us guys, you made us think a bit harder about how to make this look good too. Without your comments and suggestions we would not have come up with this solution.

Credit to Criggie for suggesting that we use magnets, this turned out the be a fantastic idea and allowed us to make a very discreet USB cable that is incredibly intuitive and fun to use.

Check out our new ible with simple step by step instructions.
oh, and in case you are worried about removing this from your iMac sometime, check out our removable video.

For all of you buying a new phone today, protect it and relax!
Team sugru are out in the queues today with gift-hacks at the Apple stores in London, our friends from Holstee are gifting them in the New York queues and our friends from Inventables are gifting in Chicago.

Laptop power chargers and USB cables always break at the same point and once they do, it’s not long before they stop working altogether.

Here’s how to repair this problem quickly and very easily using sugru.

1. Shape your sugru into a flat sausage roughly 40mm in length.

2. Position the flat sausage of sugru underneath the damaged cable and up against the power block. Wrap the sugru around the cable.

3. Use masking tape to hang the cable from a table, Gently rub your fingers up and down the sugru until it is smooth.

Leave the cable to cure overnight, you will be able to use it in the morning and after 24 hours it’ll be strong, rubbery and very protective – and it’ll stand up to much more abuse – watch the video to see what it’s like.

In case it’s helpful, we’ve put more detail on this ‘how-to’ on instructables.

We launched white sugru last month after you guys begged for it As you might have guessed, the loudest group shouting for white sugru were apple-y people. Macs, it turns out, often need a little tlc to keep them in good shape – so we made a video inspired by your loving repairs (you know who you are), which we see again and again in your photos. Tell any of your mac buddies that don’t have some!

Personally, orange is still my favourite for apple repairs though!

Kent is an awesome maker we met at Bay Area Maker Faire. Here he shows how to make an ipad stand that turns it into a neat little desktop that can be angled as you like:

I wanted to add a suction cup from a Garmin GPS system to a PanaVise base. The ball was too small to clamp into the PanaVise so I added a coating of sugru to size it up larger.

I covered the sugru with a plastic wrap so it would not adhere to the jaws of the PanaVise. I placed the plastic wrapped sugru into the PanaVise jaws and tightened to shape the sugru, and carefully removed the plastic wrap.

The PanaVise iPad holder – I now have a way of holding the iPad higher and at any angle I want.

Inspired !
Kent’s website is http://www.kentkb.com, check it out!

Mag was driving last week when here iTrip connection started shorting out… she discovered a loose cable. That could have been just a simple sugru fix, but look what happened instead !!
“Fortunately I had Sugru in my purse, …what modern girl doesn’t? I cut open the package with my multi-tool (also in my purse) and started the repair. Since I’d happened to have written a blog post earlier that morning about the fantastic phosphorescent hack featured on the Sugru blog, it occurred to me that black-on-black repairs have no drama. So I took some eyeshadow out of my purse and rubbed it into the Sugru surface, creating an iridescent finish. I love the look!
I had extra Sugru left over so I hacked the back of my iPhone case with a Tree of Life design to give it more grippiness, and once again iridescent-ized the finish. It’s a great way to sex up a monochromatic Sugru hack don’t you think?”
I think it looks fantastic Mag! How is it holding up to wear? Does the eyeshadow bind into the sugru surface?
Love it !!

Anyone that uses apple earphones for any length of time knows the rubber rings wear down and flake off. Brian repaired his with sugru, and shows you how – step by step – on instructables. James did the same, and also added a little ring to the right earphone for easy differentiation.
Brilliant!

I’ve been meaning to post this hack for ages! Isn’t it cool?
It’s by a fun guy called Trevor who we met at Maker Faire Newcastle back a few weeks ago. He wrapped the sugru around a pen, and stopped it sticking by moving it every so often. Then the next day, it was a nice springy curly cable tidy ! If you’d like to make one of these for yourself, I’d recommend using either soapy water on the pen or covering the pen in cling film to stop the sugru sticking .