3 Must Have Ender 3 Upgrades

3 must have upgrades for your ender 3/ender 3 pro

These upgrades are a must for your ender 3 or ender 3 pro as it will make your life much easier!!

Items:
usb mount on bangood https://banggood.app.link/MyHqtoqCZhb

usb mount on ebay https://ebay.us/gBSkT1

bearings on ebay https://ebay.us/WQK6Jv

Ikea lights https://ebay.us/p4urEe

Thingverse files: thing:4911481

3 must have upgrades for your ender 3/ender 3 pro

The first one is a webcam mount

2nd one is a Ikea LED light mount

3rd is a USB mount for your raspbery pi

This is based on the following webcam

This is the webcam that i will be using for the ender 3
As you can see it has this 360 ish mount that will be very helpful to adjust the camera later on

It also comes with an audio and a usb cable

Once we take the mount of we can see it has how it is connected with this tiny plastic mount and here is a better look of the camera clip

I have created a bracket in fusion with the same mount clip as you saw before and in this way we can still have the 360 ish functionality. You can also see that i need to fix my cooling duct and print out a new one as bridging is still not as good

I then screwed back the webcam to the mount and placed this on the y carriage of the printer and in this way you dont need any screws or nuts to mount it. Its also the perfect length as it does not hit the webcam

Plug in the audio and usb cable into the raspberry pi and we are all set. Check out my previous video on this raspberry pi mount.

The next upgrade is a 24v led light from ikea and it is perfect for this upgrade. It comes with two pins that were attached to this connector but we will not be using that.

I then cut the wire to length and strip the ends to solder them later on to the usb mount

I have also made these two mounts for the lights. They can slide in the top x carriage of the printer

This is the bracket for the usb mount in which i will use this bearing, i had these bearings laying around so i wanted to use them

The bearing goes into the bracket which then slides into the printers extrusion

Before i put the bearing into the bracket i made this insert which will hold the usb mount using this o ring thing

Here i am putting it all together, first goes in the o ring then the fastener that came with the usb mount

Once its all into place I insert the o ring into the bearing insert which allows for this rotation to reduce any stress on the part from the cables. Honestly this wasn't that necessary but I thought those bearings needed to go somewhere.

This is how it should look

Here are the STL files
Thingverse files: thing:4911481

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