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RPi High Quality Camera Housing!
🕑 Added 2020-07-26 15:31:21 +0000 UTCHey there, wonderful people!
I think I spent longer turning this camera around in my hands and staring at it than I did actually implementing the housing. There was a lot of frowning and visualising how things might go together, which is how a lot of these things start.
The approach I'd taken with the other Raspberry Pi cameras simply wasn't going to work for this one, because I wanted the housing to fit around the board without requiring the lens to be removed, and the lens could potentially be wider than the board itself! Eventually, the frowning gave way to actual designing, and here's where things ended up!
The tripod mount and bottom of the board fits into the base, and then the sides fold up and enclose the whole thing. A screw cap on the back keeps it all together, and properly aligned. The sides incorporate a groove for the board to fit, as well as providing a cavity to enclose the screws and other hardware that protrude from the back of the board, so that it all looks nice and neat!
Now, this design is geared specifically towards the lens pictured, which is fairly heavy. So, the connector is positioned forward of the board, to try to keep things balanced. This would of course get in the way of a wider lens, but it wouldn't be too tricky to simply rearrange things so that the connector was at the back instead - it would just be a matter of making sure that the ribbon cable still had a clear path to run through after it exits the board. If anyone's using a wider lens (in physical dimensions, not focal length!) and thinks this would be useful, let me know :)
Printing Tips
The ring prints flat side down, and the housing prints base-down and folded open, like so:
As always, you'll want to make sure your bottom layer is nice and tidy, and you'll want to watch out for any print issues like stringing that might bind moving parts together!
File Location
You'll find the files for this under the folder under the 813 Sentinel Pi Case folder, in a sub-folder named HQ Camera Housing. Note that just the housing and back ring are in that sub-folder; you'll want to grab the bolt models from the main folder.
Final Thoughts
The camera turns out to be pretty cool, too - certainly an improvement on the classic low-resolution version. I've currently got mine making time lapses of prints :)
Anyway - This is the last of the RPi camera housings that were on my to-do list! I still intend to put together some other accessories to go with all the camera housings, such as a) a stand, and b) a clamp, as well as providing some means of attaching the camera housings to the Breezy case...
After that, who knows! I'd love to make a more generic, modular case that can work for more things, but we'll have to see how that fits in with other things that are on the way...
Have fun!
xoxo
Sven.
Comments
sounds like fun challenge))
Clockspring3D
That lens seems to be the "standard" one, in that RPi use it in all the promotional photos, and it's called "16mm Telephoto Lens for Raspberry Pi HQ Camera". It's a fairly long lens in the focal length sense, so it has a fairly narrow frame of view. Manual aperture and focus control rings. Definitely a step up from the cheaper cameras, though it's obviously much more expensive :)
Clockspring3D
Fantastic! :D
Carlo Krun
what camera lens is that please?
Just what I needed, thanks!
Clockspring3D
Ooh, maybe a 360 degree print-in-place ball head... that would be a fun one! 😁
great! maybe you could do 360 deg camera rotation? i think it would be very useful somehow
