Yes, this could, if I’m lucky, be my moment of LifeHacker fame. Following Lifehacker’s Loo Rool Cable Organiser I happen to have a load of loo rolls in my study at the moment. So, when I came to try out the new iMotion HD time lapse/stop motion app by filming the sunset over Swindon and I needed a tripod, I somehow noticed that…yes…a loo roll makes a perfect and completely free iPhone 4 tripod:
![Loo Roll as iPhone Tripod Loo Roll as iPhone Tripod](https://rosswintle.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/P6010272-e1306960927129-768x1024.jpg)
But EVEN BETTER for time-lapse, with a simple notch cut out using a pair of scissors, you can have a POWERED iPhone doing time-lapse or stop-motion photography!!!
![Loo Roll as iPhone Tripod - with power Loo Roll as iPhone Tripod - with power](https://rosswintle.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/P6010273-e1306961073242-224x300.jpg)
![Loo Roll iPhone Tripod - power cord close up Loo Roll iPhone Tripod - power cord close up](https://rosswintle.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/P6010274-e1306961149950-224x300.jpg)
OK, I need to work on the photography – here’s the sun going down: