“I got several pimoroni cases and I love them. However, this part I didn't get. The piece that was to make it "stand" was impossible to attach (too small?) and it ended up breaking, making it useless as a stand. This was a while ago, perhaps a production issue? Have not tried another.,”
“I would set it's OK, I received mine with one bolt less, but find another one in the local hardware store. Better get one, if you're going to use Pi camera.”
“I received 5 bolts and 7 nuts. Had it been 4 bolts and 8 nuts it would have been perfect as the 4 additional nuts make excellent spacers between the mount and the board preventing any bowing when the ones used to fix the board to the mount are tightened.”
“After some delicate experimenting, I settled on the following safe and secure method of mounting my new Pi camera (V2.1):-
1. fit 4 screws to the mount with nuts finger-tight only;
2. waggle the screws to align them with the camera board, so that with care, and keeping it parallel to the mount, the camera board will slide on and off;
3. carefully tweak the nuts just tight;
4. again slide the camera board carefully and square down the screws - if it sticks, go back to 2;
5. If, like my kit, yours contained 5 screws and only 7 nuts, fasten the camera board in place with the remaining 3 nuts.
The nuts supplied with my kit give the proverbial fag paper's clearance (perhaps 0.2 - 0.3mm) between the connector and the mount, which is ideal!
Fantastic value for money, but I echo Norman Dubar's second suggestion (of making the cut-out larger) and his conclusion that this would make a good product better.”
“I've tried blueback, foam and cardboard, but it never looked good or worked well enough. This is what I've been waiting for - the official camera should come packaged with this.
I've had it set up flush against a kitchen window and with the angled bracket for monitoring a plant growing. It's cheap.. so try it if you haven't”
“I've been looking for this since I spotted because it seemed so simple and easy to use with Raspberry Pi camera.
And it was an excellent choice to make, because it gave me the chace to use the front part as a mounting base for the camera on my robot rover.
Then I use the base part as a support to hang this product and make a little face for the robot as well: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/adafruit-mini-8x8-led-matrix-w-i2c-backpack
This way I splitted in two the camera mounting base and allowed me to use it in two separate modes at the same time! Great!”
