PP Seat belt Pinch Camera Mount

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The original PP Pinch Mount by Phil Aquino aka PMantix was a big hit but had some issues. Introducing the PP Seat belt mount.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to install this mount.

I, Nightwing, noticed that in a hard crash using the Original PP mount the Pinch camera can become dislodged from the mount and alter the angle that the camera sits at. I brought this problem up with Phil and we tried a few different ideas of how to better secure the camera into the mount.

I thought that a sling strap on the back of the camera would really help hold the camera down but with only one strap on the back the camera could still rotate in crashes. We then fiddled with the idea of a double strap.

At first the strap criss-crossed on the back of the camera and looked awesome but was kinda difficult to install. After quite a few revisions and lots of testing we have come to this final design. This design has also been more durable because of the way it prints. Almost all other camera mounts have the layers in the same orientation and after some crashes the layers split. Since you are folding part of the mount over the camera it changes the orientation of the layers so in a crash you don't split the layers. This mount also has a little cut out in the bottom to accommodate the small chip on the bottom of the pinch camera.

 

The mounts were 3D printed from a polypropylene blend. PP is an uncommonly used FDM filament for printing, but has some nice material properties for a camera mount - very low density, moderate elastic modulus, and exceptional elongation at yield. TPU is also commonly used for camera mounts, but is considerably less stiff and also higher density. The camera is more exposed with this lightweight design, but the PP material should help the mount and the camera survive more crashes than it might otherwise.

Nevertheless this is a pro-level camera mount and it leaves parts of the PCB of the camera exposed. It does not protect your camera like the world-famous POUND mount, which is built for durability and protection.