We did something similar over at http://teksandwich.com/2009/07/diy-cable-management/

Posted at 2:28 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by herbgphoto

Nice. Even easier than velcro ties.
It doesn’t look especially secure, though… Pets may knock cables out (or play with them, or whatever).

Of course, there’s also always cable lacing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing). :)

Posted at 2:39 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by SheeEttin

look here:
http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/50035115
its the german version of the site, but this looks better :D

Posted at 2:57 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by nixnick

What if you have a mess of cables behind your *glass* desk? No screwing in there.

Posted at 2:58 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by M4CGYV3R

Yeah, I know about this ready made wire management system, but they are somewhat expensive compared to this solution. On top of that, the Ikea was out of them at that time.

Either way, this might give ideas people that do not have an Ikea nearby as I am pretty sure you can find coat hangers like the ones I used at any hardware store.

Posted at 3:10 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by Antoine

i like the box in the picture. canadian forces standard issue. also available at canadian tire! also i have the same speakers and they are a godforsaken mess of wires.. brass hooks work but i cant for the life of me figure out how to say ‘brass hooks’ in french. i hate this province sometimes.

Posted at 3:49 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by stevediraddo

@stevediraddo: Canadian tire sells them.
«un crochet en laiton» should work

what city in Québec do you live in where staff doesn’t speak English, but you can find an anglophone job?

Posted at 4:32 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by nick

cool thanks! i live in chateauguay. as for the job, well.. army :)

Posted at 7:11 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by stevediraddo

You call this custom wire management ? go fuck your grandma with this shit…..

Posted at 7:35 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by Bill Hates

bill, your my hero

Posted at 10:00 pm on Aug 31st, 2009 by CollinstheClown

Im sorry to say this, but it is pretty sad when they post stuff like this on Hack a Day. I was able to manage my cables without a article on how to do it. I hope others don’t NEED an article in order to do that properly.

Posted at 2:04 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by Metalwolf

I like to use 2″ black hot water pipe insulation and some velcro straps for my cable management.
The tube insulation already has a slice cut in it wich makes it easy to ge the wires in. It can also be easily cut to length with a pair of scissors and it takes a coat of latex paint well too.
I then use the velcro straps to keep it all together.

It looks neat and tidy and stops the pets from getting at the wires.

I use it for the back of the tv and for behind the computer desks.

Posted at 6:17 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by colin r

heh, i use the ikea one.
my room’s much better now, and my cats plays no more with hanging wires

Posted at 7:02 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by pod

University of South australia has almost this exact system in place….

kudos for making it yourself tho

Posted at 8:55 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by Ryan Leach

“management” seems to mean bundling a load of cables up rather than actually planning their deployment in any real sense…

I suppose the problem is trying to cable up an existing room. I’d love to see some purpose built furniture etc though. Maybe a false floor like server rooms have.

Posted at 11:12 am on Sep 1st, 2009 by mojo

The problem for me is that as soon as I bundle some cables I find I need to move one of them, for some reason I never has a configuration that I don’t end up needing to change and then when it’s all tied up and bundled things get nasty.

Posted at 5:29 pm on Sep 1st, 2009 by Wwhat

WTF ! If this “wire management” was any more Sloppy it would be your moms pussy…. sorry dude ! you fail!

Posted at 7:44 pm on Sep 1st, 2009 by Logan

@logan

The whole point was to be able to still move things around (as wwhat said) so yes, it does look a bit messier than neatly tie-wrapped cables.

On another note, I wish wordpress would include a function like this one: http://xkcd.com/481/

Posted at 9:38 pm on Sep 1st, 2009 by Antoine