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Pro Mini Camera Mount Assembly Guide
This guide will show you how to assemble the Pro Mini Camera Mount for Raspberry Pi Zero with your Camera Module 3.
All you'll need is a simple cross-head precision screwdriver, however we'd recommend the iFixit Mako Precision Bit Set as the nylon M2 nuts can be a little fiddly - the 4mm nut driver is perfect for turning these!
Step 1 – In your package, you should find 2 Perspex layers and a bag of fixings, peel the protective film off of both sides of each Perspex layer and clean off any dust.
Step 2 – Place your camera module on to the smaller Perspex panel and secure it with the four thinner screws and smallest nuts:
Step 3 – You'll have eight larger M2.5 screws left in your fixing pack, secure the hex standoffs into place using the longest screws:
Step 4 – Add your Raspberry Pi Zero on top and secure with the remaining four (shortest) M2.5 screws:
Step 5 – Finally, connect the two perspex parts (they push together), connect the Zero adapter camera ribbon cable to both your Raspberry Pi Zero and camera...and you're done! If you have a tripod, you can now secure the mount to it using a nut.
6 comments
The Pi Hut
@John Williams – You need to add vflip/hflip whenever you send a command. We had to make a decision to either mount the camera or Zero upside down. With vflip/hflip available, and many wanting to use HATs on the Zero, we went with mounting the camera upside down.
@John Williams – You need to add vflip/hflip whenever you send a command. We had to make a decision to either mount the camera or Zero upside down. With vflip/hflip available, and many wanting to use HATs on the Zero, we went with mounting the camera upside down.
John Williams
OK The mount works but how do you set up RPICAM to permanently set vflip and hflip within the commands, these are needed with this mount having the camera positioned upside down. Changing the orientation will cause issues in that the cable becomes permanently twisted and the camera and cable will now get entangled in the mount fixing mechanism onto a camera stand ….
OK The mount works but how do you set up RPICAM to permanently set vflip and hflip within the commands, these are needed with this mount having the camera positioned upside down. Changing the orientation will cause issues in that the cable becomes permanently twisted and the camera and cable will now get entangled in the mount fixing mechanism onto a camera stand ….
Mark
Am I sorry I hadn’t seen and read these comments before starting this assembly. I started an email to my supplier about the “long” screws not fitting the hex nuts. And then I looked at the images again and saw that the long screws were in the camera. I then fought to remove the other “long” screws that I had used to secure the camera to the assembly, damaging them close to being unusable.
Then I subsequently realized that the camera mounted with the long cable obstructs the microSD slot. Happily, there’s a 38mm cable for my Zero 2 w card.
Am I sorry I hadn’t seen and read these comments before starting this assembly. I started an email to my supplier about the “long” screws not fitting the hex nuts. And then I looked at the images again and saw that the long screws were in the camera. I then fought to remove the other “long” screws that I had used to secure the camera to the assembly, damaging them close to being unusable.
Then I subsequently realized that the camera mounted with the long cable obstructs the microSD slot. Happily, there’s a 38mm cable for my Zero 2 w card.
Edd
Instructions could have been clearer tbh, what you receive is 13 non descript screws I can best describe as
4 Thin and long ones
5 Short and fat ones
4 regular ones
The instructions lay it out as if the thin ones are used on the base, but they are in fact for the camera mount, they are the longest screws in the pack.
The remaining 9 (1 spare I guess) have very short and regular lengths. Regular goes underneath and secures the hex spacer to the base. Very short goes on top, securing the pi to the hex spacer
Dont try and force them on as I did, else you’ll strip the screw head and make it impossible to remove in a way that doesn’t destroy the screw.
Instructions could have been clearer tbh, what you receive is 13 non descript screws I can best describe as
4 Thin and long ones
5 Short and fat ones
4 regular ones
The instructions lay it out as if the thin ones are used on the base, but they are in fact for the camera mount, they are the longest screws in the pack.
The remaining 9 (1 spare I guess) have very short and regular lengths. Regular goes underneath and secures the hex spacer to the base. Very short goes on top, securing the pi to the hex spacer
Dont try and force them on as I did, else you’ll strip the screw head and make it impossible to remove in a way that doesn’t destroy the screw.
The Pi Hut
@Paul – Sorry, sounds like that may be a laser-cutting issue. Please send us a quick message via support.thepihut.com and we’ll help with that.
@Paul – Sorry, sounds like that may be a laser-cutting issue. Please send us a quick message via support.thepihut.com and we’ll help with that.
Paul
The hole on the smaller Perspex panel is far too small to fit the Pi Camera Module 3. It is not the same as the images shown in your assembly instructions.
The hole on the smaller Perspex panel is far too small to fit the Pi Camera Module 3. It is not the same as the images shown in your assembly instructions.