Turn A Cheap iPhone Case Into A Tripod
You probably use your iPhone’s camera for hand-held photos and video, but once in a while you might want some shake-free shots. Get them with a tripod made from a clamshell case and a little ingenuity.
By combining an inexpensive case with some very basic and cheap parts off the shelf of his local hardware store, Scott Patrick made sturdy tripod mount for his iPhone. Check out the video below:
The build is rather straightforward, but there’s room for a little tweaking. While the tiny screws used to mount the case to the L-bracket are cheap, if you don’t want to mess around with countersinking and trying to get the screws heads deep enough into the case to avoid scratching your phone, you could always epoxy the bracket on. If you have your own handy mobile phone tricks, involving modded cases or otherwise, sound off in the comments. <
a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/30/found-footage-inexpensive-do-it-yourself-tripod-mount-for-iphon/">Found Footage: Inexpensive do-it-yourself tripod mount for iPhone [The Unofficial Apple Weblog]
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I see the use for this, and see how it can be a quick/cheap version of commercial cases. Everyone else should just keep their complaining to themselves.
silver-bolt
@nikaru: Yep, agreed.
But maybe it serves as a basic idea to mount other stuff.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
No gold star for you. There's no point to your post.
There's no point in doing this.
nikaru
Cool idea. Seems to me like this would be a whole lot easier with some sort of sticky Velcro solution or something similar instead of having to screw around with the drilling and countersinks and what have you.
Personally I bought a cheap case and combined it with a Gorillapod Go-Go (from joby.com )
travisnauman