Originally Posted by
WheresWaldo
Hey, that's my part!. I first made a straight one since they are all over Thingiverse and many can be customized. I had to take one apart in FreeCAD and reassemble all the pieces with the 17° angle. The angle allows the camera more room above or below the mount (depending on camera size). It also provides a bit more leeway in what GoPro adapters you can use. I have a thread started here about 3D printed mounts:
http://www.bikeforums.net/electronic...es-mounts.html, that thread also has a picture of the original printed mount on my bike with a Sony HDR-AZ1 mounted from the seatpost. You can use 3 mm socket head cap screws and lock nuts to mount it, as I did. The mount itself is an exact fit for GoPro and will accept a standard GoPro 5 mm thumbscrew and acorn nut.
It could be made with larger clamp sizes but I don't have a need as every bike I currently ride uses a 27.2 seat post, and its really a tedious job reconstructing someone else's 3D files when all they provide is an .stl (mesh) file for 3D printing. My Thingiverse listing includes the FreeCAD file too.
Thanks for this! If I am reading this correctly, this is instructions or can I actually buy it?
And if the first, if I gave this to some of my engineering friends will they know what to do with it?