Anycubic Kobra 2 Plus Cheap AZ Camera Mount
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Q&D mount for the 3 dollar Amazon USB tiny camera (search on "OV7675 Camera Module" - you'll find it).
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“Q&D” stands for “Quick and Dirty”
“AZ” stands for “Arizona”
Throw it together with some of those m3 screws and nuts you got lying around. You could put in some melt-in threaded inserts if you want but I didn't. It's quicker and dirtier to do what I did and use m2.5 or m3 plastite screws. If they start busting out of there, it means you forgot to up your wall count to at least 5, and turn them in nice and slow. Plastic has feelings too you know. Mount it to the machine with some m4 screws and washers.
You have two choices for the angle piece. I think style 2 looks kinda neat, but they are both equally cheap and effective. There are also two different styles of base. Style 1, is the original and it only works on the left side because if you try to mount it on the right side, it runs into the screen. Style 2 works on either side.
Here's a cool trick. If you have two of these printers sitting next to each other and you mount a camera on the left side of the left one, and a camera on the right side of the right one, you can angle them just right to where if one of them does it's Anycubic thing and stops feeding video, you can still see your print job happening in the background of the other printer's camera. Pretty clever, eh? Of course, now it's going to cost you more than three dollars, but totally worth it if you ask me.
When it comes time to mount the two stalk pieces together, just use two screws, one at each end, or whatever. I mean really, most of those holes are just for looks anyway.
The little camera works suprisingly well, although confession time - I upgraded to the 8 dollar one. These are originally designed to go into the bezel of a laptop screen, and if you're handy with a soldering iron and a hand axe, you can rip one out of an old laptop and solder it to the chopped off end of a USB cable, as long as it's a data cable, not a charging only cable. Now that's about as cheap as it gets!
I haven't tried it, but I suspect it would work on some other makes and models of printers, but I only guarantee it works on the one shown in the photos.
Oh and one more thing - be aware of where it is in relation to your bed because trust me, if it ever comes to a disagreement between this thing and the bed, the bed's going to win the argument every time.