Mini mobile phone tripod from the 3D printer

Today a little report about how I 3d printed a tripod for my mobile phone:

Mobile phone mount

I chose the following model as my mobile phone mount: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:366210. The parts were printed quickly and were quite stable:

Since I didn’t have a suitable nut, I printed it out. Of course, I could have used others, but I wanted to make the whole thing compatible with standard tripods.

At the end, a nice handle that I melted in the nut:

Now I put a screw or threaded rod through the phone mount and fixed it with hot glue:

Assembled, the whole thing looks like this:

So the mount itself would fit on a tripod. But since it was too big for my intended use, I printed out another mini tripod.

Tripod

Here I have selected this tripod. The main part looks like this and is printed “print in place”:

With a little force, you can then unfold it:

Since this design also works with the screws I don’t have, I printed out two more screws of this type and attached them in the stand with hot glue:

You also need such a screw for the part that encloses the ball:

You can then screw the ball itself to the tripod and slide the other part over it:

This is then fastened with an M4 screw, which I melted down a bit. Unless – like me – you don’t have an M4 screw. Then you can also drill out the hole to M5.