Screwless printed pan-tilt mount for an FPV camera

Oct 15, 2026 Last reply: 5 hours ago 4 Replies
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Once it is in the air, this mount gives a square FPV board camera pan and tilt across two axes while riding on the foam fuselage of an RC model. The cockpit footage runs over rivers and past industrial buildings, and at one point another model jet flies alongside. That is exactly the kind of smooth camera work I want from a scratch build.



Putting it together is refreshingly minimal. The bill of materials is just 3D printed parts, superglue and two 4.3 g servos, and baking powder makes the superglue cure instantly. The camera sits in an orange frame connected to a micro servo. Total assembly runs about 65 seconds, and the printed parts need roughly an hour on the printer.



What stands out to me is that no screws appear anywhere in the design. The finished mount went onto a blue and orange spotted foam fuselage, and getting a build down to about a minute with no fasteners seems like a genuinely clever piece of design.



One open point: the maker has not said which jet the airframe is meant to represent. Worth noting too that in an earlier attempt with 1.5 g servos, the maker reported overheating and almost zero stall torque. In my view that history makes the heavier 4.3 g servos here look like a sensible pick. The print files cost one dollar.


I am curious about the joint between the camera frame and the micro servo. Since there are no screws anywhere, is that link also just glued printed parts, or does the frame snap onto the servo in some printed way? Knowing how those two pieces meet would help a lot before anyone commits filament to this.

The baking powder trick is the choice I keep coming back to. Making superglue cure instantly turns assembly into a one-minute job using only printed parts and two 4.3 g servos, with no fasteners at all. The trade-off, as I see it, is that a glued joint leaves little room to undo a mistake, so the alignment has to be right on the first try.

A concrete improvement worth pushing for: the maker has said the step files can be ready within a couple of days. With editable step files, someone could reshape the orange frame to suit a different square camera or adapt the base for another foam fuselage without redrawing the whole pan-tilt mechanism. That would make the one-dollar files stretch much further.

On the frame-to-servo joint, the maker has not said how that connection is fixed. What is known is that the camera sits in an orange frame connected to a micro servo, and that the parts list holds only printed pieces, superglue and the two 4.3 g servos. Anything beyond that, such as whether it snaps together or is glued, has not been described.

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