I initially thought I'd make two of the battery holders to carry my 4 extra batteries. Then I decided to join them. Then I looked in my camera bag and one thing led to another and I now have this. It should hold 4 batteries, the popup flash, and 3 SD cards (and now the vertical grip). Ran onto trouble with the supports Slic3r was making so I made my own. The filler that's in the hot-shoe should just come out, but it might take some prying. Though mine didn't, and it fit the flash great.
UPDATE: I created a new version with 6 sd card slots.
Update # 2: I was getting frustrated with trying to jam this back in my bag next to the VG-XT1 battery grip. So I got out the calipers and designed this addon. It took a couple tried to get the fit just right, but it should just slide into the sd slots. Grip fits snugly, but the rubber is lifting on mine so that might be why. Suggest printing with supports for the sd card tabs, they popped out pretty easy.
Printer Brand:
Prusa
Printer:
Prusa Mk2
Rafts:
No
Supports:
Yes
Resolution:
.20
Infill:
20%
Notes:
Battery holder:
I designed it to avoid needing automatic supports. The only thing needing support was the hot-shoe so I added a plug in side it to help.
Grip holder:
I did require supports for this, just for the sd card shaped tabs.
Most of my editing was in tinkercad. I opened completed designs in 3d builder and let it fix stl errors (which worked, surprisingly enough).
-I changed the charge indicator holes from rectangles to ovals to avoid any bridging issues.
-Hardest part was the hotshoe. Getting the hole for the flash pin to line up took a few tries. I also added a small ramp at the opening to slide the contact pins up. After that, getting it to print without supports (made too much of a mess getting them out) required me to make my own, which is the cap that's there now. The "thumb grip" on the cap doubles as a bit of a raft to help with bed adhesion for the relatively narrow tall cap. It should help with pulling the cap out, as a test piece I made had it in there pretty snug and I had to pry it out with a screwdriver.
-I added some small ribs inside each battery compartment, hopefully to make them stay well enough without being impossible to remove, as my batteries vary in thickness slightly. In case they are still too loose, I added the rails on the upper and lower side for a rubber band or two to keep them where they belong.
Category: CameraThe author marked this model as their own original creation. Imported from Thingiverse.