Tripod Mount for iPhone

[rpd]

In January my wife got a new iPhone 5s and I inherited her old iPhone 4s.
I have been using it to take pictures but felt the lack of a way to mount it on the tripod.
A search on YouTube found this DIY mount that I liked the look of.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4XNmtn9nY[/youtube]
So a bit of scrap wood and a 1/4-20 threaded insert, (I think a T-nut would work just as well) and voila.
I sawed a groove rather than doing a stopped groove using a router.
I figured I can always glue in some stop blocks.

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The threaded insert in the bottom. The extra hole is a from a previous use of this scrap of wood and not currently relevant.

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And on the tripod with the iPhone mounted.

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All sawing and drilling was done on my 10er's

[jsburger]

In January my wife got a new iPhone 5s and I inherited her old iPhone 4s.
I have been using it to take pictures but felt the lack of a way to mount it on the tripod.
A search on YouTube found this DIY mount that I liked the look of.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4XNmtn9nY[/youtube]
So a bit of scrap wood and a 1/4-20 threaded insert, (I think a T-nut would work just as well) and voila.
I sawed a groove rather than doing a stopped groove using a router.
I figured I can always glue in some stop blocks.

camera mt1.JPG

The threaded insert in the bottom. The extra hole is a from a previous use of this scrap of wood and not currently relevant.

camera mt2.JPG

And on the tripod with the iPhone mounted.

camera mt3.JPG

All sawing and drilling was done on my 10er's

I guess we know who is the boss in your house!

[ERLover]

RPD,
scrap, there is no such thing, it just gets saved for the right project.

[reible]

This would work nice for things like doing a 360 sweep for google cardboard type applications. Perhaps I would feel safer with a velco or rubber band holding things together but maybe it isn't as bad as I think it might be.

Thanks for sharing!

Ed

[rpd]

I guess we know who is the boss in your house!

True, but I rarely use the phone so no need to get the latest and greatest.
The one just retired had a slide out keyboard and the one before that was a flip phone.

[rpd]

RPD,
scrap, there is no such thing, it just gets saved for the right project.

I meant "scrap" in the best possible way.

This would work nice for things like doing a 360 sweep for google cardboard type applications. Perhaps I would feel safer with a velco or rubber band holding things together but maybe it isn't as bad as I think it might be.

Thanks for sharing!

Ed

The slot was sized to the width of the case, it is a snug fit.
A strap of some type is probably not a bad idea, Belt and suspenders.

[everettdavis]

Innovations in Wood! I love these sorts of things.

I actually bought one some time back that was listed as a universal mount. I paid a bit more than they are going for today, and I waited two weeks for delivery as I recall. I could have done this too, but never thought of it. I even had the 1/4 x 20 inserts from a left over project building a teleprompter where I mounted a video camera behind a teleprompter mirror in a picture frame.

The phone mount was a telescoping unit that I used many times, taking my phone out and reorienting it to move from Landscape to Portrait.

After doing this a dozen times or more, I glanced at the tripod and noted rather embarrassedly that the tripod itself could rotate the base 90° and I could have left it as I had it originally in Landscape mode. LOL

I have to admit, I also have walked about the shop looking for a tool I needed in my right hand, only to find that when I stopped searching to get a cup of coffee, laying down the tools I had collected in my left, that it was among the tools in my left hand and I had already found it... Guess that disproves the notion that one always stops searching for something after they have found it. My mind must have been thinking ahead and not paying attention...

Anyone else suffer from that sort of thing, or is it just me? I don't think I need Dr. Freud, but must say, I do like some of his tools.....

Everett

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[everettdavis]

Found it for sale today at GearBest for $2.05 with free shipping...

http://www.gearbest.com/mount-holder/pp_24409.html

I think I paid $3.95 back then.

Everett

[rpd]

I have to admit, I also have walked about the shop looking for a tool I needed in my right hand, only to find that when I stopped searching to get a cup of coffee, laying down the tools I had collected in my left, that it was among the tools in my left hand and I had already found it... Guess that disproves the notion that one always stops searching for something after they have found it. My mind must have been thinking ahead and not paying attention...

Anyone else suffer from that sort of thing, or is it just me? I don't think I need Dr. Freud, but must say, I do like some of his tools.....

Everett

Not just you. I used to go looking for a tool/part needed in a project, find it, return to the work site only tor realize I had taken some other part with me and put it down somewhere during the search. I try not to do that any more.

[everettdavis]

Ron, I am guilty on that one as well from time to time.

Everett