Ender 3 Reinforced Handle with Standard Camera Mount

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I printed out the Ender 3 handle and attached the camera mount found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2957507, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3317132. The problem with this handle and mount combination was that it was very prone to vibration from X/Y movement of the bed, resulting in blurry timelapses. Moreover, after a week or so, the handle started to deform under the weight of the mounted camera until the camera mount was touching the Y-axis belt! I decided to design my own reinforced handle that would be less susceptible to vibration and deformation. This new handle is much more sturdy, but requires more material to print (~116g including supports using my print settings, ~73g for the actual object excluding supports). The supports were not too hard to remove, but it was time-consuming. Make sure you have a stiff sharp edge to pry away the edges of the supports in between the mounting jaws. Once you have separated the supports from the body of the object, they are easy to pull out assuming you have printed with an adequate Z-distance (I used 0.2mm). This handle may be possible to print vertically to reduce the amount of support required and to make removal easier, but I have not tried it. The camera mount arm contains a 6.5mm groove which allows a standard 1/4-20 tripod screw to securely fix a standard camera fitting to the arm.