Historically, winning the Iron Throne in the medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones involves Machiavellian political intrigue and brutal, bloody civil warfare. But it's gotten a lot easier – particularly for smartphone fans – thanks to a DIY maker known as mstyle183, who created a 3D-printed version of the Westerosi seat of power that also serves as a dock for iPhones and Android devices.

"As many of you guys know the iPhone 5 doesn't have an official docking station from Apple. This has inevitably created a massive 3rd party race to create successful iPhone 5 docks... made out of Legos, metal, wood, plastic," said mstyle183 on his Instructables blog. After spotting a $10,000 life-size 3D-printed Iron Throne on line, she "realized that the Iron Throne would make the ultimate docking station for any true geek out there."

He details her step-by-step process for creating a 3D-printed Iron Throne at Instructables, and has a commercial version available for pre-order at nuPROTO.com. Although he hasn't published the printable STL file for the project yet, she notes in the comments that he ultimately hopes to release it to the open source community.

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