Magsafe Tripod and GoPro Mount with ColdShoe (50mm Ferrite Ring)

Magsafe compatible Tripod and GoPro Mount (Ferrite Version)

The convenience and versatility of Magsafe on the iPhone 12’s is great but their aren’t many options for tripods yet. I decided to create a few Mounts to use for photography/videography. 
These have the option of having a Coldshoe (aka Hotshoe) Mount on the rear for attaching lights and microphones.

I’ve included 3mf and gcode (for MK3S) that include the colour changes for embedding the magnet and nuts.  For those of you that haven’t used this, the printer will stop at certain points and move out the way for you to embed the nuts and magnet (It will also eject the filament and get you to insert it again). Their is a small amount of tolerance so it’s worth using some glue to hold parts in unless you want to hear a rattle.

This great video shows how to do this if you don’t want to use my pre prepared files:

As an alternative if you are confident editing your Gcode Files, just add these commands at the layer heights required to insert the nuts and magnets (I have already done this in the provided gcode files):

G1 X10.000 Y200.000 E0; parking position
M1; user stop
M105; return to current temp

In the end after testing this design in different scenarios with different iPhones I realised the magnet was not strong enough to hold the iPhone securely especially with no case to add some friction between the mount and the phone. I’ve already developed a model with 16 x 5mm neodymium magnets which I’ve tested with iPhone 12 Pro Max (no case) and it works really well. However this does work if you have a 12 Mini or 12 and you use a silicone magsafe case on your iphone so I decided to upload it anyway.

Required Parts: 

• 1 x 50mm O.D x 25mm I.D x 10mm thick Y30BH Ferrite Ring Magnet - 5kg Pull (I’ve found this strong enough to hold an iPhone 12 when in an Apple silicone Magsafe Case.)
• 2 x square ½” nuts - These measure 3/8" across the flats and are 1/8" thick
• 1 x ½” bolt to hold coldshoe

GoPro Version is also compatible with Modular Mount (optional):

• Designed to work with the “Modular Mounting system” by HeyVye