GoPro Visor Mount
 

I bought myself a 3D printer recently and have been having all sorts of fun setting it up. I needed to do a test build after a recent hack/rebuild, and ended up making these neat little GoPro mounts. They replace your useless visor so that your GoPro can be mounted upside down & facing out your windshield.

Anyway, I've got 10 extra that I'd like to send out to MTNet members. I take no responsibility for use or quality...they're friggin' free!


Add your name to the list if you want one and then PM me your address. I'll ship when I get time next week.

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Very cool. In! :)

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Mind posting of the drawing for it? I am working on my 3d printer as we speak and would love to test it out with one of these.

Thingiverse.com is your friend. Type "Miata" in search and check out everything that's available.....LOTS OF STUFF!!! Also check out GrabCAD.com as you can download some of those files to convert to prints as well.

Thanks. Let me know if you want postage monies.

Very cool. What 3D printer did you end up getting or building?

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Notice how I kept the list out of the quote, for the convenience of others. Be a convenionator.

I got a Creality CR-10, which is beyond amazing. 300x300x400 build volume, and downloaded the newest beta version of Cura which had all the presets for the printer already available. Since purchasing I added another Z stepper, cable management, some nice printed covers, larger bed level knobs, and last night I swapped out the loud stock fans for much quieter units and added rubber dampers to the x & y stepper motors. It's much quieter now. I've got extra dampers and other "stuff" if you end up getting one. BTW, they've dropped the price on them to $340 delivered on Gearbest....unbelievable for what's considered the very best inexpensive 3D printer out there.

https://www.gearbest.com/3d-printers...oxwf1I19GuvTZV

Count me in. PM me a paypal so I can pay shipping

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Nope. No pay, as I'm not even sure how well they'll work. Merry Christmas from me. Just put up some pictures when you're done. You'll need to carefully clean up a bit of the support structure from the part prior to use, but that's it.

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This is awesome you're doing this, thanks!

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OK, everyone shipped today so far, except Mobius. When you install, you need to clean out the 3D printer support structure carefully. Treat it like it's aluminum or some nylon reinforced ABS, and you'll be looking at a broken tang. Sneak up on the tightness--I don't know how tight these things can be tightened before they go TWANG, but I'll bet it's less than the off-the-shelf GoPro stuff. Fair warning.

Bringin' up the rear like a proper miata owner, I am.

Every one of you greedy bastards should be throwing props to cordycord for sending you gifts.

I literally tried to throw him money and it didn't work

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Nice, I heard good things about that one. My DIY built D-bot seems to be working okay but it mostly sits on a shelf and collects dust for the most part these days.

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if anyone backs out...🤪

I find the sun visor quite useful :dunno:

I realized after sending out the first batch that they were crap. Do overs. Like I said, this is a new machine for me so you guys are my guinea pigs. :) It may turn out that these things need to be made from ABS instead of PLA, which is the next test.

I'm going to reprint so that the holes in the center don't need to be taken out manually. Stand by...https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...da0e556b0b.jpg

Well shit...

OK, a second batch of PLA pieces was sent out yesterday. The parts is much, much nicer. I added a simple block-off plate for the other visor and some lucky recipients will also get a cam holding tool. If the GoPro bit doesn't work then I guess you can just knock off the mounts and use that as a block-off plate too...

Aweeee yuuussss

What an awesome surprise this is. Props again.
I did have to do some light file work in order for the tool to get me into my favorite beverage. But it worked.

I've had my other one hanging in my daily for a few days, we'll see how it holds up when it gets cold again. I'd rather use the old one in case it does fail it's not the good one.

Long term update.

I've had my gopro and now my Yi (gopro suck Yi better) on and off since well, January of 2018. The mount is still very much intact. Nothing melted, but my climate is much cooler.


Now one thing i think i would add. With the stiffness of my car the camera tends to vibrate sideways. I would suggest (if possible) adding a bit of support where the screwdriver is pointing. Maybe chamfer the edge out so it's not a 90* angle. May help, but probably won't. Just using my gen 1 mount for example since the other one is in the car. The 2nd gen is much cleaner.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...3f9ae80c1b.jpg

I'm going to throw in on this as I had this for ages (although not printed by cordycord.

I've had 4 printers 3 still active (the other burned down my house - no really).
This design is built for injection moulded parts really and the typical FDM layering in the direction of oscillation only makes it more wobbly.
Erat's idea will add a wider base limiting flexing somewhat but the biggest issue is the layers oriented for printing.
Ideally you would just use a DLP printer for maximum print rigidity.

If you use a shit ton of support, aligned by 90° to the picture above, this model prints better.
This puts the lamination along the hole based axis making the mount and base more of a single print.
However this then raise processing cost as well as having to tune the printer to a very high and time consuming precision.

This however brings me to my pondering.
Do you really want absolute rigidity given the vibrating, pitching, rolling, yawing nature of track driving?
Surely there is a middle ground where it is not a jack in the box wobble and not complete blur vibration from maximum rigidity.

Obviously having been FDM since reprap I am quite versed in looking at prints to tweak my settings too. I'm sure others on here are also too.
Having paid a big price and still printing I prefer to attempt to help where i can but also not wanting to turn this into a printing disucssion.
So for the print in Erat's picture i have a few suspicions about settings for that filament in slicing and printing.
The dragged line - I'm guessing bed isn't flat as could be or filament is "wet" or filament printed too hot.
The dip away from the edges - in the slicer the top/bottom layer setting could be increased to stop warping so much.
Long straight bubbling - this looks like overextrusion by a small amount

You know, with how good EIS is on newer cameras I'd say that rigidity isn't much an issue anymore. Any cameras 2016 and older will have a crap picture.
My newest YI is almost a perfectly steady image on my hydroplane, which has the worst bumpiest ride possible.

As for the quality of that part, as i said it was generation one. Gen 2 is MUCH nicer and cleaner.

I think EIS nowadays is great however chinglish knock off cameras however are not.

I have some analogue buillet cams with a DVR for the track so mount on silicon pads.
Even a thin piece is enough to cancel out.

Completely disagree. My yi outpreforms the GoPro. And for a fraction of the cost.

Excellent got a link, model number or something.

That's just one. There are different models with different features.

Cool.

Like I said I've got analogue bullet cameras going to a DVR as well as a GoPro Hero (not a 2,3,4,5 or any other but the original one) so its probably time to update.