Pi Cam Case and Mount at Right of Ender3 X-Gantry

Oh, not another Pi-Cam housing! you may say and right you are. So many of them are around there should be one for everyone among them. And still, after collecting and comparing a heap of them none really fit, not even my own.

I wanted a small, stable case, sitting high, connector on the back and the back to slide it on. And it should fit in to sit on the right end of the x-gantry on my Ender3. As such it builds on and expands the Ender 3 X-Gantry Right Mount for Cam (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4865109).

I now have a cam which is aligned with the nozzle in Y and Z dimension and has an unobstructed view.

At least on my printer, with a blTouch on the left of the print head and a line of led fixed under it on the front the best viewing angles for a cam are either from the back or from the right. I build a rear column for ender 3 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3978597) to hold a cam before, now the MultiCam plugin in octoprint serves me both views.

What you need for it:

• body
• back (2 versions, the connector is either centerd or edgy so there are 3 options for height)
• x-gantry clip-on mount
• 30mm column w. 3mm screw hole
• 2 x M3x20
• 2 x M3x12
• 1 x M3 nut

and of course a raspi and a piCam (mine says: v1.3) and a cable long enough to follow the x-gantry up.

I put the printer display in a standalone housing cause there was a conflict over some mm between display and cam. If the cam is that little bit higher the direct line of sight to the nozzle is lost.

The parts are fast to print and only the body needs support or that fine ridge where the back slides in wont be straight enough. I made it anopportunity to get acquainted with the paint-on support feature of prusaSlicer.

As usual FreeCAD sources are included so you can adapt it all as you like.

If you like it like it.

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