Snapmaker A350 bed mounted enclosure compatible raspberry pi camera mount

I wanted to be able to make the timelapse videos of my prints, but I don't want to have to spend the time moving the bed into position for a shot, nor do I want to have octolapse messing with my gcode after I've checked it in my slicer.

I (unfortunately) made my custom enclosure to the same size as the Snapmaker enclosure, which means there's no "good place" to mount the camera to the bed so your item doesn't move in frame, if you mount it at the front of the bed, when you move the bed all the way forward, the camera would run into the wall. If you mount it on the side of the bed, when you move the bed all the way to the back, the X rail would run into the camera.

I designed this with a springed hinge arm so it can pivot when homing, and then it moves out of the way of the X rail as soon as the bed moves away from the wall.

NOTE: I have the "old" bed without the extra reinforcing square around the outside, and I've only tested that this properly mounts to that bed frame. However, I've attempted to model this so it'll fit the new frame as well, but I was operating entirely off a cad model of the bed frame, so no guarantees it mounts properly.

Print Settings

Printer:

Snapmaker A350

Rafts: 

No

Supports:

Yes

Resolution: 

.2 mm

Infill:

20

Filament:

MatterHackers PETG

White

Notes:

I highly recommend printing the vertical and horizontal arms upright. I used paint on supports (in SuperSlicer) so I only printed supports under the bottom of the vertical arm, just to keep it from falling over on the bed. I also added supports for underneath the hinge on the foundation. Other than that you shouldn't need any supports for this model.

Instructions ============

Extra components

You could probably get away with printing versions of these if you really want this fully 3d printable (there's a model on thingiverse for printable bearings even)

* 1 608 bearing * 1 M4x14 bolt + to mount the foundation to the underframe of the bed (screws into the bottom of the bed mount screw hole) * 2 M3x10 bolt + to mount the swing arm to the foundation + to mount the horizontal arm to the vertical arm * 1 M3x20 bolt + to mount the vertical arm to the pillar * 1 M3x8 bolt + to mount the camera mount to the horizontal arm * 3 M3 nuts + for all the M3 bolts * 2-4 M2x8 (or M2x6) bolts + to mount the camera to the camera mount

All mounting hardware came in this kit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FCDL2SY

These are the bearings I used (don't need to be super high performance, just needs to roll): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JB2Y4H3

Print setup that worked well for me, note the vertical arm was rotated to be upright to allow easy support removal.

Videos

In  action

Example timelapse, just used octoprint's timelapse function to take this (and played with a bit of video editing afterwards)

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