Phone Mount for Vanmoof S2/S3/S5 V2.0

The Vanmoof S2/S3/S5 phone mount - now with less magnets and more protection for your phone.
6h 14m
11× print file
0.15 mm
0.40 mm
59.00 g
13
83
1
1516
updated October 7, 2024

Description

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Update: This should also fit the S5, I've updated the title accordingly.

New rotating Phone Mount for the Van Moof S2/S3/S5 electric bikes.
Mounts to the handlebar using 3 cable-ties, magnets embedded in the handlebar-base will help keep the interchangable phone-cradles in either horizontal or portrait orientation.

A lot has changed… Welcome to V2.0:

This is a completely revamped version of my original phone mount for VanMoof ebikes.

While the original was nice and had a few good ideas, it also had it's drawbacks, like magnets that were to weak to hold the phone securely on bumpier roads, despite using a lot of them.

A new solution had to be found and so V2.0 was born, this version is improved in many aspects, here are just a few new features:

  • Uses less than half the magnets of the original
  • more robust cradle for better protection of your phone
  • prints (mostly) without supports
  • easier printing, no more pausing to insert magnets
  • charge your phone inside of the cradle
  • supports more phones (see “Available Cradles” below)

 

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Attention: This is a work in progress, while the available cradles are designed after dimension documents from Apple (for the iPhone cradles) I couldn't test the fit. Also while you may find “base” mentioned below. There is not yet a redesigned base, until this new base arrives, you may use the base of the initial phone mount, linked in the remix section.

Instructions

Printing 

mount_base

Simply print the base as shown in my print-files with the top facing down and you should be good to go.

cradle

I recommend printing the cradle parts without support, except for support-enforcers underneath the hooks of the cradle part.

Also, using a brim for latch_lever_right and latch_lever_left certainly helps to keep these small parts attached to your printbed. 

 

You'll need

  • 1x M3 locknut
  • 1x Screw M3x10
  • 4x Neodymium Disc Magnets 5-6mm for the base
  • 4x Neodymium Disc magnets 5-6mm OR M3-M4 steel nuts for the cradle
  • 3x cable ties 3mm wide
  • around 20mm of 1.75mm PETG filament

 

Assembly

Base
  • insert the locknut in the bottom of the mountbase_vanmoof_s2_s3
  • insert the cableties into the channels in the bottom of the mountbase and fix it to the handlebar of your S2/S3
Cradle

Assembly is the same for every cradle:

  • Put the cradle on the base and insert the magnets or nuts into the 4 holes
  • Close the magnet assembly by putting the magnet-cover on, it should press-fit into its spot, just use a bit of glue if it doesn't. 
  • To fix the cradle to the base, drive the M3 screw through the central hole into the M3 lock-nut. 

Now continue with the cradle_top:

  • Break away the two support walls on the top corners of the cradle_top and insert the appropriate lever(latch_lever_left/latch_lever_right) into the slots.
  • Connect the levers with the cradle_top using short pieces of 1.75mm filament, I recommend PETG as it's a little flexible and wont stick to the PLA that easily. 
    • Just sharpen the ends a little and use a hammer to ehm.. “gently” guide them into place.
  • Finally, cut of the ends still sticking out of the back and you're done. 

Use

  • Insert your phone into the lower part and keep it in place by attaching the cradle_top. To keep your phone from falling out, close the levers and click them into place on the little notches of the bottom part.
  • The cradle should protect your phone from most damage even in the unlikely event of the screw failing.

 

Designing your own phone cradle or base 

Designing your own phone cradle to fit the mounting base, or a base for another bike is pretty easy.

All you need to do, to be compatible with the base and cradles is the following:

  • place a M3 countersunk hole in the (gravitational)center of your cradle
  • design 4 pockets for neodymium magnets with approx. 6mm diameter spaced in a circular arrangement 20mm from the central hole. (see below)

 

That's it, as long as you keep to the above design specs, you should be able to mount almost everything to the base.

Cradles are currently available for the following phones:

  • Google Pixel 3A
  • Apple iPhone X
  • Apple iPhone 11
  • Apple iPhone 11 Pro
  • Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
  • Apple iPhone SE 2nd/3rd Gen. (added 31.05.2022)
  • Apple iPhone 12 mini
  • Apple iPhone 12 (added 23.09.2022)
  • Apple iPhone 12 Pro (added 23.09.2022)
  • Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max (added 24.09.2022)
  • Apple iPhone 13 (added 24.09.2022)
  • Apple iPhone 14 (added 24.09.2022)
  • Apple iPhone 14 Pro (added 11.07.2023)
  • more to come…

Comment below if you need a cradle for a specific model.

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Model origin

The author remixed this model.

Differences of the remix compared to the original

Reworked the cradle locking system and made the entire thing parametric, so I can quickly generate more custom cases.

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