Safari 5 4K action cam magnetic mount

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I made this for my Safari 5 4K action cam. It's kinda like a GoPro but it only cost my $150 Canadian. I picked it up at London Drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to use it as a webcam. At the time decent webcams were hard to find. This thing connects to my computer with a usb cable and acts as a webcam. Great. (It can also connect via hdmi or wifi) It came with a bunch of bits and pieces for attaching to bikes, helmets, tripods and an underwater case. It can also be controlled by my phone. Though I was just going to use it to make physics lab videos, turns out I like it a lot and decided to get myself one too. With my oldest son just starting to drive, I thought it would be nice to have a mount for the car. That is what this is for. I tape the base to the cars dash with double sided tape and then put the cam into the holder and then that just snaps to the base and doesn't go meandering across the dashboard when my son pulls several Gs accidentally. I printed the base flat with a skirt at 0.15mm layer height. The holder I printed sitting on it's short edge at 45 degrees and it printed fairly well with no support but I did again use a skirt to keep it bound to the build plate. I bought the magnets on amazon a while back. They are 6mm diameter and 3mm thick (2.75mm is what I measured). With four in the base the camera is going nowhere! I did use a bit of super glue to hold them in place though they were a good fit on my printer. My printer has a 0.35mm nozzle. I made another and used E6000 hobby glue and that seemed to work well too. I really like the positive snap that the magnets give to the mount and will be using them more often for mounting stuff. I drive a 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander electric hybrid which has a fairly flat dash so this works well for me. Here is a link to the magnets on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07QGYQP9M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 201208 Update: I have been using two of these cameras now for over 6 months and they are still going strong. They are used daily as usb webcams. We have just bought a third and I noticed there is now a Dual screen version the Safari 5D available. It's cheaper but I don't think it has a gyro and am not sure if it has the ability to act as a webcam.