BAT Hat Ping Mount

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I've been working on a "BAT Hat" for about a year now as a side project: Blind Assistance Technology. It's a hat that can provide distance feedback based on Ping sensors. Originaly I had the sensors hooked up to vibraing motors for a haptic feedback system, but the latest version plays audio. All through Arduino\Adafruit Wave Shield. Blog post here giving more info on the hat, file downloads, etc:http://www.akeric.com/blog/?p=2114 I needed a way to mount the ping sensors to my hat. Originaly I'd just used some Shapelock to for some simple brackets, but they weren't adjustable, and looked like play-dough ;) Plus, I didn't have a Makerbot back then. The top part of the mount I derived from what UechiMike had developed (thing #19256), but the bottom was modeled custom in Maya: It's designed to slip around the brim of a hat, and you can drive a screw through the bottom to hold it in place. Another small nut\bolt hold the top\bottom brackets together. Instructions Printed with Taulman 618 Nylon: 240 deg, hbp off. .2mm layer height, 3 shells, 33% infill. Think it took around 25 minutes to print.