“This is a neat and practical camera mount, but it doesn't attach to a tripod. The hole has been made 1/4" clear, which means the tripod screw has nothing to bite on (yes, I read the instructions). I feel an opportunity has been missed to make the hole 13/64" (or 5.16mm) which could be threaded by the customer if required.
I might have a threaded insert I could install, but I'm sad that it's necessary.”
“I got several pimoroni cases and I love them. However, this part I didn't get. The piece that was to make it "stand" was impossible to attach (too small?) and it ended up breaking, making it useless as a stand. This was a while ago, perhaps a production issue? Have not tried another.,”
“I would set it's OK, I received mine with one bolt less, but find another one in the local hardware store. Better get one, if you're going to use Pi camera.”
“I received 5 bolts and 7 nuts. Had it been 4 bolts and 8 nuts it would have been perfect as the 4 additional nuts make excellent spacers between the mount and the board preventing any bowing when the ones used to fix the board to the mount are tightened.”
“After some delicate experimenting, I settled on the following safe and secure method of mounting my new Pi camera (V2.1):-
1. fit 4 screws to the mount with nuts finger-tight only;
2. waggle the screws to align them with the camera board, so that with care, and keeping it parallel to the mount, the camera board will slide on and off;
3. carefully tweak the nuts just tight;
4. again slide the camera board carefully and square down the screws - if it sticks, go back to 2;
5. If, like my kit, yours contained 5 screws and only 7 nuts, fasten the camera board in place with the remaining 3 nuts.
The nuts supplied with my kit give the proverbial fag paper's clearance (perhaps 0.2 - 0.3mm) between the connector and the mount, which is ideal!
Fantastic value for money, but I echo Norman Dubar's second suggestion (of making the cut-out larger) and his conclusion that this would make a good product better.”
