SaulOhio wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:33 pm
The oval shape lets me put the lines farther apart, so I can move the camera farther from me without so much bending of the lines.
I also just had the idea of putting foam in those large spaces so it would float. I have HDPE coming in Wednesday.
Not sure I would benefit from floaters unless I tie them to the camera. I feel the weakest link with 3d printing is the camera mount area because it’s the thinnest. The metal flip mount on the camera has a gap between the body and mount where you can feed a line through. I tethered it the first couple of sessions but then got lazy. I could perhaps print the whole mount hollow at the cost of strength/rigidity or just add some hollow bodies. But as long as it's a feed through design that has one of the center lines attached, it should be ok.
Here’s the latest dumb idea I sent to the printer but luckily canceled 30min in. The last print didn’t allow any of the pigtails to fit through.
For ease of testing, I figured to just print rubber plugs and cover the gaps. I’m still set on feeding the lines first but this would make things so simple to test! So I’m designing the plugs and it hits me. When the center lines get tensioned, they’ll just slide around the plugs and pop right out!
and this is why I don't want to post the files until I actually test it.
So I redid the holes to 15mm, tightened up the spacing between the camera body, beefed up the frame size to cover all of the GoPro and I'm trying beveled edges around the areas that will touch the lines. Nylon is hard to work by hand to get a nice smooth round edge. Sanding it down seemed to just make it worse.